Inertia Tech Group is a technology consulting practice focused on helping engineering teams build better software and adopt AI tooling that actually delivers. The practice spans the full engineering lifecycle — quality and test automation, SDLC and DevOps, AI enablement, and the security and compliance work that keeps it all sound.

Inertia is led by Jason Smith, an engineer with over a decade in software spanning SWE, QA, SDET, automation, DevOps, AI, and internal tooling. He has built enterprise-scale automation ecosystems from the ground up at companies including Intuit and Gemini, scaled a QA and tooling organization from 2 to 27 engineers, trained teams across three continents, and stood up custom infrastructure — from self-hosted device farms for hardware, mobile, and cross-browser testing to FIDO and FIDO2 authentication validation. His work has driven SOC 2 compliance, contributed to a company acquisition, and embedded automated testing as a release gate across globally deployed, regulated platforms.

That experience reaches across a deliberately broad range of industries — retail, mortgage, financial technology, crypto, and SaaS and PaaS platforms — from fast-moving product teams to highly regulated, compliance-heavy environments where quality and security aren't optional. The range is the point: rather than a narrow specialist or a junior consultant reading from a playbook, you get someone who has done nearly every role on an engineering team, across very different problem spaces, and knows how the pieces fit together.

A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Jason brings the discipline and ownership of that background to every engagement. The work is practical, not theoretical — delivering real artifacts like frameworks, pipelines, integrations, and guardrails, plus the training to help your team run them independently. Inertia works as an embedded partner through flexible monthly engagements, scaled to what your teams actually need.