Rich Rudzinski
Founder | Fractional CPO / CTO
Since 2009 Tragic has worked with founders, small businesses, and enterprise orgs to strategize, build, and scale technology solutions of all shapes and sizes.
Supporting businesses and founders since 2009
Rich Rudzinski left his position as a javascript developer at a prominent San Diego agency to start Tragic in 2009. Rich saw a growing gap in the digital service landscape for a development agency focused on providing technical strategy backed by reliable, experienced resources.
Over the years the company's solutions and approach have evolved, but our focus in partnering with startups and growing businesses to manage their technology roadmap has not.
Tragic's first big ongoing project was building TaylorMade Golf's marketing emails and managing their Yahoo web store.
Our CEO was nominated for the San Diego 2020 Top Tech Awards
Our first "office" was 3 rented desks in the corner of a San Diego Drupal agency. Then for many years we occupied the historic San Diego Mayor's office. Now we are fully remote spread across the US.
In 2013 Tragic had the opportunity to rebuild Pixar.com after a San Diego agency outsourced the project abroad and it came back... less than Pixar ready.
Though Rich and Todd both worked at Digitaria at the same time, they didn't actually get acquainted until Todd started working as a contractor for Tragic in 2012. Now you might mistake them for brothers given their nearly identical last names.
Tragic has been able to scale their leadership and engagement approach to partner with a wide range of companies from sole founders to enterprise organizations alike.