Why Alpenglow exists.

Dmitri Sunshine has spent more than 20 years building enterprise systems. He taught himself to code as a teenager and left college at nineteen to build full-time. That work became InReach Solutions, an ERP platform for social-services agencies that he bootstrapped from zero to roughly 80 organizations across the country, and ran for fourteen years with no outside capital.

Today he runs Solanasis, a firm built on operational resilience and responsible AI. Its work runs from security assessments where disaster recovery is actually tested, to data migrations with chain-of-custody, to AI built with audit trails and governance guardrails. He brings the operating-layer view: where a business is leaking capacity, where its systems are fragile, and where AI can safely help.

Ivan Smirnov spent five years as a software engineer at Google, working on products used by billions of people, including Ads, Assistant, and Cloud. Then he left to build. As a founding CTO and later a VP of Infrastructure, he architected the platforms behind startups serving millions of users, and learned where systems crack under real load.

Today he runs Smirnov Labs, a fractional CTO practice, and has advised more than ten companies on architecture, infrastructure, and bringing AI into a business. He brings the senior platform thinking that lets a modern operating layer scale without breaking the business.