Bruce Gilham

Background

About Bruce Gilham

I’ve been building software since I was six, when I spotted a missing “>” on my dad’s code and got hooked for life. By nine I was optimizing games on a Commodore 64; by eleven I was shipping Prolog programs; in high school I was normalizing UIs and databases at my father’s company, learning Clarion, Btrieve, truth tables, and architecture. Since then, my through‑line has been practical systems that move the needle—ERPs, inventory control, shop‑floor tracking, and enterprise data platforms—mostly on.NET + SQL, increasingly Power Platform (Power Apps, Dataverse, Power BI), and always with an eye to reliability, clarity, and measurable outcomes. Selected impact: Inventory control & shop‑floor tracking: Designed receiving & shelf‑location system that stopped 10‑year losses and drove +$3M/month in profit; normalized UIs; cut core query times from 30s → <1s. Rules engine architecture (Enginex): Introduced dot‑notation tree‑walk + reusable rules engine to dynamically generate manufacturing travelers—prototype in 3 days; approach still in use. Enterprise modernization: Five‑year program replacing brittle spreadsheets and legacy Delphi with.NET/WPF + SQL and integrated market data (Bloomberg). Data & Analytics special projects: Built internal tooling and Power Platform solutions (Canvas/Model‑Driven Apps, Power BI) and led a small dev team on executive initiatives. Real‑time, measurement & vision: From live production‑line telemetry and graphing to specialty measurement devices with custom WPF UIs. I’ve served as CTO, fractional/contract architect, and hands‑on principal engineer, often parachuting into complex environments to modernize systems, fix performance, or deliver greenfield solutions that stick. Core stack & strengths: C#/.NET, SQL Server, WPF, ASP.NET, Power Apps/Dataverse/Power BI, Azure; data modeling & migrations; rules engines; UI/UX normalization; manufacturing & inventory flows; performance tuning; stakeholder engagement; leading small, high‑performing teams. If you need someone who can own the problem end‑to‑end—from talking to users on the floor to designing the schema, shipping the app, and proving the ROI—I’m in.