DAN GERICKE  /  CO-FOUNDER, SHIFTCONTROL

I build tools that automate the work small teams don’t have time for.

Twenty-five years building and securing technology — most recently CTO of ExpressVPN. Now building ShiftControl, from Singapore.

Dan Gericke
SINGAPORE · 25 YEARS IN TECH

01 What I’m building

ShiftControl

ShiftControl automates the IT and business operations that pile up on small teams — onboarding, offboarding, access, and the SaaS sprawl in between — so a ten- or hundred-person company can run like it has an ops department it doesn’t.

Most ops tooling assumes you have an IT team to run it. Small and mid-sized businesses don’t. They have an office manager who also owns IT, a founder who approves every SaaS purchase, and a list of accounts no one has fully mapped. I’m building ShiftControl so that team can see who has access to what, automate the repetitive lifecycle work, and offboard a departing employee in minutes instead of guessing for weeks.

We connect the tools a business already runs — Google Workspace, the SaaS apps, the laptops — and turn the scattered picture into something a non-specialist can act on: identity, app inventory, and device posture in one view, with the busywork automated and the gaps that matter surfaced first. Better security falls out of better operations — not the other way around.

02 Background

Twenty-five years

Before ShiftControl I spent twenty-five years building and running technology and security organizations. I was Chief Technology Officer of ExpressVPN through its US$1 billion merger, and CTO of the Privacy Division at Kape Technologies. The throughline across all of it is the same problem I’m solving now — building tools for the people and organizations who can’t make operations, or security, their full-time job.

03 Writing & speaking

On the record

I speak on what it takes to run lean — the operational and security realities facing small and mid-sized teams, and what actually moves the needle for them. Recent stages include UK Cyber Week and Workato Automate.

Articles and talks are collected here as I publish them. In the meantime, my speaker profile lists where I’ve presented.

04 Connect

Get in touch

The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn. If you’re curious about what I’m building, start with ShiftControl.