Fully Canadian
Canadian-based professionals lead and build the product. No unseen offshore handoff and no junior-only delivery model.
About RSC
Calgary roots. Canadian delivery. Senior accountability.
Razor Sharp Consulting is a selective custom software studio serving founders and established businesses across North America.
Part of Calgary’s momentum
A growing ecosystem for ambitious technology.
Calgary Economic Development reports more than 1,300 core technology companies in the city. RSC adds practical, senior-led product engineering to that community through modern software, applied AI, automation, and AWS systems.
The goal is not novelty for its own sake. It is useful technology with experienced control, clear tradeoffs, and sensible economics.
Calgary Economic Development, accessed August 20, 2026About Mike
Practical leadership for consequential software.
2016202610th anniversary year
Mike Cottingham founded Razor Sharp Consulting in Calgary in 2016 to build useful software with experienced people close to the work. He has led product and engineering efforts across telecommunications, healthcare, oil and gas, mining, safety, finance, and startups.
His leadership style is practical, direct, and collaborative. Mike keeps the business outcome, product decisions, and technical reality in the same conversation. Clients see working software early, understand tradeoffs as they emerge, and know when a decision needs their input.
Projects run in short cycles with senior developers close to architecture, security, review, quality, and product judgment. This gives teams enough structure to surface risk early without burying delivery in ceremony.
RSC also takes these product conversations to technology, energy, safety, and construction events across Canada. See our conference attendance
Leadership principleMake the work understandable, the decisions visible, and responsibility clear.
Meet Mike and RSC on LinkedIn Working with RSC
Selective by design.
Senior people remain close to architecture, security, review, quality, and the product decisions that matter.
AWS Partner
Cloud architecture, cost optimization, and preferential infrastructure pricing for eligible client workloads.
Insured & security-minded
RSC is insured and has a formal SOC 2 compliance program underway.
Built for consequential products
Senior engineering practices suitable for products whose commercial value can reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
SR&ED eligibility and tax treatment are determined by the CRA with your qualified tax advisor. Preferential AWS pricing depends on workload and program eligibility.
How Mike runs projects
Clear intent, short cycles, visible decisions.
Mike starts by aligning the team on the business outcome and the people the product must serve. Each cycle then produces working software, explicit tradeoffs, and a useful next decision.
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Get clear
Learn what the business needs, who the product serves, and what success must look like.
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Make the plan
Turn the opportunity into a scope, technical direction, delivery plan, and working team.
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Build in the open
Use two-week delivery cycles to keep progress visible and create useful checkpoints.
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Ship & support
Release with care, document the system, and stay available after the first launch.