Who We Are
The Far Edge is the fractional CTO and advisory practice Daniel Teixeira-Gomes has run since 2000 — sometimes as a full-time practice, sometimes as a parallel track alongside staff and leadership roles — built on three decades of experience at the intersection of media, AI, and human systems.
We work with founders, startups, and nonprofits who need senior technical leadership without the overhead of a full-time hire: the kind of engagement where architecture, product thinking, team design, and clear-eyed strategy arrive at the same time.
Who Daniel Is
Daniel Teixeira-Gomes has spent three decades moving toward the frontier — and building things once he got there.
Each phase of his career was, at the time, the edge of what was technically possible. Enterprise systems architecture at global scale (American Express Europe, Ford Credit). One of the world's first fully digital mobile networks (Telstra, 1992–1999, including a year on secondment to Pacific Bell in San Francisco). A pre-Google natural-language search platform — the technology that became 192.com. Then a deliberate pivot inward: nearly a decade building digital infrastructure for Bay Area nonprofits and NGOs — the San Francisco Art Institute, the Bay Area Video Coalition (uptime from under 20% to over 99%), California Newsreel (audience engagement from under 1% to over 90%), Film Arts Foundation (a 21,600 sq ft media arts center built from the ground up). Speaking at Apple, NTEN, SXSW, and Sundance. Bridging the digital divide before the phrase became a policy slogan.
He also spent two years at Electronic Arts producing content for The Sims 4 and SimCity — because he has always moved between the technical and the creative without treating the boundary as a constraint.
In parallel, fifteen years as Director of Photography for Coffee & Language Productions on award-winning independent features, and a long-running client relationship with K.C. Smith Films. These are not footnotes. They are evidence of the same operating principle: curiosity sustained over time, applied with structural rigor.
His writing includes Deep Focus: The Future of Independent Media and Managing Stakeholders: The Art of Managing Up, Down, and Across.
The Far Edge Approach
Most technology problems that look like execution problems are actually architecture problems. Most architecture problems are actually clarity problems.
The Far Edge works upstream of the usual intervention points: helping founders think clearly about what they're actually building, who it's for, what the system needs to do in two years, and what the team structure needs to look like to get there. We bring that thinking to AI/ML integration, data strategy, product definition, engineering team design, and the moments when an organization needs to change direction without losing what's working.
We don't believe in linear solutions applied to non-linear problems. We believe change happens through structure.
Who We Work With
Founders navigating the gap between idea and architecture. Early-stage startups that need a technical co-founder without the equity commitment. Nonprofits and mission-driven organizations modernizing their technology infrastructure. Creative technology companies building at the intersection of AI, media, and story.
Based in Fort Collins, Colorado. Working everywhere.