Jason Teixeira.
Fintech engineer. Studio founder. The person on every Sage Ideas engagement — first call, last commit, signed handoff.
Five years inside fintech engineering taught me one thing well: the gap between a product that works in a demo and a product that survives a Stripe webhook retry storm at 2 a.m. is the entire job. Most agencies sell you the demo. The studio that grew out of that experience sells you the part nobody likes building — the idempotency keys, the row-level security, the migrations that don’t lose data, the CI gates that catch the bug before the customer does.
Sage Ideas is one operator by design, not by accident. The person who scopes the work is the person who builds it. There is no offshore bench, no account manager, no “lead consultant” who disappears after the kickoff. You buy the keyboard. That is the whole proposition.
Based
Orlando, Florida
Remote-first, U.S. business hours
Languages
English · Portuguese · Spanish
Native English; fluent in others
Experience
5 years fintech · 2 years studio
Production systems and operating businesses
Why a one-person studio is the offer, not the limitation.
Most agencies sell you a lead practitioner on the call and hand the work off the moment the contract signs. Sage Ideas does the opposite. The work is the deliverable, and the work is built by the same person who pitched it. That is the whole proposition. Productized tiers exist so engagements start fast, but custom engagements, retainers, and ongoing care are always available.
How engagements work.
Audit, Sprint, Build, Operate
Nine fixed-price tiers from $750 audits to multi-month builds. Scope is named, deliverables are itemized, and timelines are written in. Pick a tier, sign the SOW, ship.
See all tiersRetainers, custom packages, ongoing care
When the productized tiers don't fit, we build a custom engagement. Site Care, Brand Care, and Content Care retainers keep work moving month over month. Open to bespoke scopes — just ask.
Start a conversationThe background.
Founder & Principal
Sage Ideas LLC
Founded and operate the studio. Engagements span audits, sprints, builds, and operate retainers across fintech, trades tech, edtech, and developer tooling. Every engagement runs on fixed scope, fixed price, with the deliverable artifacts named before kickoff.
Fintech Engineer
HighStrike
Built and maintained production trading infrastructure: market data ingestion, real-time pricing systems, portfolio management APIs, and billing integrations. Five years across the full stack on systems that handled production load during volatile sessions.
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Full Sail University
B.S. Finance
Kean University
9 active certifications.
Each one reflects a domain where the studio works. All active and maintained.
ISTQB
- Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)
- Test Automation Engineer (TAE)
- Certified Tester AI Testing (CT-AI)
Amazon Web Services
- Cloud Practitioner
- Solutions Architect — Associate
- Developer — Associate
- SysOps Administrator — Associate
- DevOps Engineer — Professional
Cisco
- CCNA (Routing & Switching)
What lands on every engagement.
The studio is intentionally narrow on offer surface and broad on capability. Whatever the engagement — audit, sprint, build, or operate — these are the disciplines on the table.
How to start a conversation.
Send a quick note
Email sage@sageideas.dev with a short description of what you are working on, where it is stuck, and what success would look like. Most replies land within 48 business hours.
Send a messageBook a 30-minute intro
Or skip the email. The intro call is a focused conversation about the problem, the constraints, and which engagement type fits — productized tier, custom scope, or retainer.
Book a call