About Lofty Thoughts
Lofty Thoughts is me—Galen Gidman. I built custom solutions for agencies and their clients for years, then led enterprise-scale development for organizations like VMware. Along the way I learned exactly where development partnerships break down: the layers, the handoffs, the slow bleed of context from one person to the next.
So I built Lofty Thoughts to work differently. When you hire me, you get the person who understands your business challenge on day one doing the architecture, writing the code, and shipping the solution on day thirty. No account managers. No junior handoff after the sales call. The strategic context that shapes the approach stays consistent from first conversation to final deploy.
That's not a limitation—it's the whole point. Decisions happen in hours because they don't pass through a chain. I think about your business outcomes, not just the ticket in front of me. And when a project needs expertise outside my own, I bring in specialists I've worked with for years, not a bench of whoever's available.
The result is what my clients call a force multiplier: enterprise experience without enterprise bureaucracy, bespoke solutions without agency overhead, and a partner who executes independently so you can stay focused on your own work.