Steven
Pinto.
IT Director leading enterprise technology, security & transformation.
Twenty years running enterprise IT across PE-backed manufacturing, healthcare, and global beverage operations. I lead teams, own the strategy, and still ship code when it matters.
A career spent leading and building.
Four director-level postings across healthcare, beverage, and manufacturing. Plus a deliberate 2025 sabbatical to actually go build things.
IT Director
Ampersand Brands · Hammond's Candies, Lolli & Pops
Leading enterprise IT across a PE-backed retail and manufacturing organization. Driving ERP transformation to NetSuite, Microsoft 365 tenant consolidation, Zero Trust security, and AI/data platform strategy.
Independent projects & study
Sabbatical · Applied AI, IoT, and serverless
After 15 years in a director chair, I took a year to actually build. Shipped an IoT cocktail platform, automated my home on Home Assistant, built and deployed AI applications, and trained small models.
Director of IT & Security
Park Street Companies · Back-office services for 1,000+ beverage brands
Directed a global IT team across U.S. and E.U. operations supporting 1,000+ alcoholic beverage brands. Led cloud migrations, built serverless architecture, stood up Zero Trust security, handled M&A IT integration, and shipped internal applications across 15 years of growth.
Director of IT & Security
Doctor Diabetic Supply · Healthcare / direct-to-consumer
Centralized IT infrastructure, reduced hardware spend by $50K+ annually, and owned IT security for a healthcare organization serving 12,500+ customers per year.
Beyond leadership, I build.
Things I've built outside the day job: products, platforms, and a few internal tools. My take is that IT leaders who stop building lose the ability to judge what's actually hard.
MyHaloBar
An IoT-powered automated cocktail platform with AI-generated recipes, hardware pump control, and real-time ordering.
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SaaS-Aware
A shadow-IT detection platform with a Chrome extension. Tracks unauthorized SaaS usage and enforces SSO adoption.
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DevTel Home Intelligence
Smart home design, installation, and automation services built on Home Assistant: lighting, security, and whole-home control.
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Ask Steve AI
The assistant in the corner of this site. Dual-agent RAG architecture built on Claude, LangChain, and Pinecone.
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Employee Lifecycle Platform
Integration platform connecting Google Workspace, Jira Service Desk, FreePBX, and Snipe-IT for automated onboarding and offboarding.
Nutrient Dosing System
A custom-built automated nutrient dosing system combining electronics, IoT hardware, and software control.
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