Rich Rudzinski
Founder | Fractional CPO / CTO
We live, breath, and build technology
Since 2009 Tragic has worked with founders, small businesses, and enterprise orgs to strategize, build, and scale technology solutions of all shapes and sizes.
Brothers From Another Mother
40+ years of combined technology leadership.
A Tragic History
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.
Experienced, Reliable, Knowledgeable
- +Design, development, and cloud resources
- +Remote, senior stacked team
- +Diverse platform and framework expertise
Partnerships and Associations
Fun Facts
Tragic's first big ongoing project was building TaylorMade Golf's marketing emails and managing their Yahoo web store.
Epic Accomplishments
Our CEO was nominated for the San Diego 2020 Top Tech Awards
Fun Facts
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.
Epic Accomplishments
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.
Fun Facts
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.
Epic Accomplishments
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.
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Todd Budzinski
Partner | Fractional CTO
Todd is the backbone of Tragic. A back-end wizard, he has more than 15+ years of experience in programming enterprise websites and applications, specializing in languages including PHP, Python, and Node; frameworks like Drupal and Laravel; and has extensive server experience building lean cloud-based infrastructures in GCP and AWS. Todd spends time keeping up with the latest advances in digital technologies and back-end frameworks to ensure Tragic is always leveraging bleeding-edge tech to produce modern, high performance applications and infrastructure.
Todd has been in software development his whole career, but his skills reached new levels working at Digitaria (now the global agency Mirum), where he gained exposure working with large brands like Taylor Guitars, Qualcomm, SAIC, and Petco. After Digi, Todd became one of the most valued engineers at Business.com before leaving to work as a consultant for local agencies in San Diego. He first started working with Tragic as a consultant in 2011, and was extremely impactful in our early growth. After several years, Todd came on-board full-time to grow Tragic's engineering department.
Todd is an avid video gamer and can be found playing games on Steam or Battle.net. He also likes to travel the world and has visited many countries including Thailand, Singapore, Laos and Malaysia.
