Brent Nyznyk

Chief Technology Officer

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

About

Brent Nyznyk is a senior IT leader with over 20 years’ experience working in a variety of roles from being a CTO of a Fortune 500 company to a successful entrepreneur. Brents hands-on approach makes him perfect to assist companies that have struggling engineering departments, or companies that need to rapidly grow or need to transform their current technology stack. Throughout his career, he has developed over one hundred web-based/mobile applications, recruited, managed, and mentored large engineering teams and developed effective innovation and technology strategies. Brent has real-world experience utilizing four cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google and Alibaba), DevOps, both agile and waterfall development methodologies and many web-based and mobile technologies such as .Net, PHP, Java, Python, Node, React/React Native, Swift, and Xamarin. You will not find Brent locked in his office but rather working with the engineering and product teams. Brent understands the importance of delivering high-quality solutions on time and on budget. He tries to anticipate challenges early to minimize impact, however, when things go off the tracks, as they sometimes do, he communicates early and frequently, while developing contingency plans to mitigate the situation. Brent is a member of the Canadian CIO Association and is also an avid soccer fan and executive member of Original109, a Toronto FC supporters group.

Experience

  • Chief Technology Officer at Silver Gold Bull Inc.
    Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Silver Gold Bull Inc. (ANA, BBB, Gata) was established in 2009 with a mission to innovate easy ways for smart investors to accumulate precious metals. By providing top sales, support and practical ways to buy, we have grown to have a major presence in Canada while fostering a budding new American market. Through a combination of on-line innovation, the highest quality products, competitive pricing, and excellent customer service, Silver Gold Bull Inc. is merging e-commerce and precious metals in ways never before done.

  • CTO | Corporate Sales at Precision Paralegal Services
    Dec 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 8 mos

    Precision Paralegal Services has grown over the last twenty-five years to become one of Canada's largest paralegal firms representing corporate clients in Small Claims Court. Precision Paralegal's extensive experience in Ontario, Alberta, and British Colombia ensures that it has all the necessary tools, knowledge and resources to properly and professionally represent our clients.

  • Chief Technology Officer at Nobul
    Jul 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Nobul is the first and only disruptive real estate marketplace where every actor in the real estate transaction process actively competes to represent buyers and sellers. Real estate has operated the same way for the last century: it’s time for disruption. It’s time for the industry to embrace digital technology and join the twenty-first century — and nobul delivers! Nobul truly is the world’s only open digital marketplace connecting home buyers and sellers to the right real estate agent for them. Nobul’s revolutionary platform introduces transparency, choice, accountability, and simplicity to the real estate industry by enabling consumers to choose the agent who presents the combination of services, pricing, reputation, and fit that is best-suited to them personally. Nobul provides home buyers and sellers with a suite of tools and information to help find them the right agent. Nobul pairs education and information as to how the real estate process actually works with an open digital marketplace where consumers can compare, and contrast agents based on the specific services and pricing that they are willing to provide. Nobul does not try and dictate how agents should behave nor assume what consumers want. Rather, nobul enables consumers and agents to pair up in the way that works best for them, individually, one-by-one.

  • Chief Technology Officer at Gryphtech
    Feb 2016 - Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    GryphTech is a global leader in Real Estate Management solutions and the preferred choice of real estate franchise networks around the world including RE/MAX. Our solutions are deployed to over 15,000+ agents located in 70+ countries and delivered in over 36 languages/currencies. Our solutions are designed to meet the unique needs of real-estate clients and our comprehensive Real-Estate Management platform can be easily customized to meet the unique language, currency and cultural needs of the local market. Incorporating best practices from leading real-estate companies around the globe, the flexible platform is comprised of a series of administrative, sales and marketing, operational and recruitment tools to optimize productivity, manage performance and maximize growth at all levels of our clients organizations. Gryphtech also offers a full suite of IT services including packaged technology solutions, custom software development, mobile applications, hosting and site design. At GryphTech, we strive to embody the traits of the gryphon. Like an eagle, we have the ability to fly high enough to see the big picture and the vision to see what lies ahead. Like a lion, we are down-to-earth, tenacious and work as a strong team to exceed our clients’ expectations.

  • Chief Information Officer at The Nationwide Group
    Oct 2014 - Feb 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

    The Nationwide Group (TNG) is a pioneer in designing and developing outsourced financial services software, exclusively focused on creating comprehensive and customizable solutions to the real estate industry. Utilizing world class technology, TNG delivers solutions to the entire mortgage life cycle through its affiliated organizations. Nationwide Appraisal Services (NAS), Nationwide Recovery Services (NRS), Nationwide Energy Advisors (NEA), InHouse Connexions and MyClosing.ca form The Nationwide Group (TNG). The synergies between these companies allow The Nationwide Group to create a utility that will provide financial institutions and the broader lending community with an innovative and complementary suite of solutions to help manage and mitigate exposure to inherent business and financial risks, to provide comprehensive data analytics, and ultimately offer significant value to consumers. The Nationwide Group benefits from a broad product suite, infrastructure and industry expertise and has transformed the home purchase, sale, mortgage and refinance process for consumers, lenders, realtors and mortgage brokers.