About — boutique by design
Built small.
Built deliberately.
The shop
What RTS is.
Rosevine Technology Services is a small, boutique consulting firm. We’ve done the same kind of work at bigger places and chose to do it differently — with fewer people, more ownership, and a longer attention span.
Our work splits in two: software engineering — where we design, build, and ship platforms and apps — and helpdesk operations, where we’re the solitary support team for Odin at odinhelp.com. The same engineers who write the code answer the tickets.
We’re a small team on purpose — a tight group of senior people who have known each other, and built alongside each other, across a string of ventures over the years. That shared history means less ramp-up and less hand-holding: we already know how each other works, where the bodies are buried, and how to ship without drama. You get that hard-won shorthand pointed at your problem.
Principles
How we work.
Build it like you’ll support it.
Because we will. Operational thinking lives inside engineering, not after.
Senior hands on the keys.
No layered staffing. The engineer in the kickoff is the engineer writing the code.
Boring tech where it counts.
TypeScript, AWS serverless, Postgres. Novelty only where it earns its keep.
Pages, not hand-offs.
When something pages at 3am, the team that wrote it is the team that answers it.
The founder
Justin Jones
Justin grew up in Roanoke, Virginia and came east to Richmond for college — and never really left. He’s a veteran who spent a year in Iraq, and that tour still shapes how he runs a team: clear missions, calm under pressure, and people you can trust on the keys.
Since then he’s spent two decades building software and the teams that ship it — from scrappy startups to enterprise scale, across healthcare, fintech, consulting, and SaaS. He’s stood up engineering organizations from nothing, led groups from a handful of people to forty-plus, and stayed close enough to the work to still write the hard parts himself. Rosevine Technology Services is where that experience gets pointed at small and medium businesses who deserve senior hands.
He and his wife, Izzy, are serial entrepreneurs with two daughters, four miniature schnauzers, and a frankly unreasonable amount of energy and ambition. When he’s not building, he’s cooking, traveling, or feeding an Instagram algorithm that’s convinced he only cares about recipes and basketball. It’s mostly right.
Career in brief
- FromRoanoke, Virginia — by way of Richmond
- EducationB.S. & M.S. in Information Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University
- ServiceU.S. military veteran — a year in Iraq
- BuiltEngineering orgs at Oracle, Naborforce, Koalafi, Apprio, CapTech & more
- CertifiedMicrosoft DevOps Expert · Azure Developer · OCI Architect · Certified Scrum Master
Off the clock
- Married to Izzy Jones — two daughters, and serial entrepreneurs together
- Cooks constantly; the feed is recipes and basketball
- Travels every chance he gets
- Four miniature schnauzers and a soft spot for every furry friend
Principal engineer
Thomas Roncales
Thomas is Rosevine’s Principal Software Engineer — Argentinian by descent, Richmond-made by way of Virginia Commonwealth University, where he studied tech and never looked back. He’s the engineer the team points at the hard parts: the gnarly architecture, the problem nobody else wants, the part of the codebase everyone’s a little afraid of.
He builds the way good engineers do — for the people who’ll have to live with it later. Resilient systems, clean seams, and code that reads like it was meant to be supported, because at Rosevine it will be. He’s as comfortable sketching the architecture as he is in the weeds of the implementation, and he spends as much energy levelling up the engineers around him as he does shipping the work himself. TypeScript, AWS serverless, and Postgres are home turf — boring tech, sharply applied.
Off the keyboard, he’s on the pitch — soccer every weekend, and a Lionel Messi devotee who will happily ruin a dinner party defending the GOAT debate. The competitive streak follows him home: he’s a fixture in Call of Duty lobbies, strictly mouse-and-keyboard, with a principled disdain for controllers. Quieter weekends find him foraging wild mushrooms — a genuinely obscure hobby he’s genuinely good at. He’ll eat just about anything you put in front of him, with exactly one exception: apples, which he regards as a personal affront.
Career in brief
- HeritageArgentinian by descent — and loud about it every World Cup
- EducationStudied technology at Virginia Commonwealth University
- RolePrincipal Software Engineer — architecture and the deep end of the codebase
- FocusResilient systems, hard problems, and mentoring the engineers around him
- StackTypeScript · AWS serverless · Postgres — boring tech, sharply applied
Off the clock
- Plays soccer every weekend — and will argue Lionel Messi is the greatest to ever do it
- Competitive gamer who lives in Call of Duty lobbies — mouse-and-keyboard only, consoles need not apply
- A quietly obsessive amateur mycologist; spends free weekends foraging wild mushrooms
- Will eat almost anything except an apple — a hill he is fully prepared to die on