About
A shop, a name, and a few principles.
McNee & Co. is led by Jeremy Nay. The “& Co.” is real: a small bench of senior contractors pulled in per engagement. The work is the same idea, every time.
Who’s behind this
Jeremy Nay
Founder & principal · Muh·KNEE
Twenty-plus years building software and leading the engineering teams that own it. Director of Data Engineering at Expedia Group, where he ran 39 engineers across four platforms and an $11.4M annual investment. Before that: software engineering leadership at SDL and software development at Microsoft, where he co-invented the Microsoft Policy Processor (U.S. Patents 8,112,379 and 8,954,370) — a core policy execution engine shipped in Windows Server, Configuration Manager, and Intune.
Started his career running a small custom-software shop in 2002. Twenty years later, after enterprise platforms, fraud systems, security data warehouses, and an AI-powered analytics onboarding system that freed $2M+ in capacity, he’s back doing the same shape of work — with senior judgment, modern leverage, and a multi-agent factory the 2003 version of him would not have believed.
Receipts
- • U.S. Patents 8,112,379 and 8,954,370 — Microsoft Policy Processor
- • $2M+ analyst capacity freed via RAG/LLM analytics onboarding (Expedia)
- • 10% YoY credit-card fraud loss reduction (Expedia)
- • 4× SIEM scale, 40% IAM ops overhead reduction (Expedia)
- • 39 engineers, $11.4M annual investment, four platforms (Expedia)
- • Multi-agent software factory in production since Feb 2026 (McNee)
How the “& Co.” works
A real bench of senior contractors, right-sized per engagement.
Every engagement is led by Jeremy. For scopes that call for more hands, we pull from a small group of vetted senior contractors we’ve worked with for years. Front-end specialists. Data-engineering people. A designer when the work calls for one. Nobody on the engagement is junior.
We don’t pad the team. We don’t bring people on to look bigger. The size of the engagement is the size the work calls for. If a project needs Jeremy alone, that’s what it gets. If it needs four people for six weeks, that’s what it gets.
About the name
The McNees came over Scotch-Irish in 1736 — Scottish lowlanders who’d been sent to Ulster to farm someone else’s land, who left because they wanted to own what they built. William McNee Sr. landed in Boston, then walked to Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1744 with two friends. They cleared a strip on their lots, girdled the trees, burned the brush, planted corn, and went back to fetch their families to a working farm. They signed the Revolutionary oath in 1776 — “at the risque of our lives and fortunes” — and put their names on every petition the town wrote for the next two generations.
William’s grandson John lost a leg in his twenties, falling off a frame he was helping raise in Concord. He carved his own replacement out of soft white pine. He retrained as a cabinet-maker. And, around the same years, he stopped writing the name McNee and started writing it Nay — shorter, sharper, easier to sign.
The work is the same idea. Clear the ground before you bring anyone in. Build the thing that holds up. When something breaks, carve the replacement yourself.
McNee is older than Nay. Bringing it back because the work is the same idea.
Pronounced Muh·KNEE
Legal
McNee & Co. is a DBA of Nay Systems LLC. Registered in Washington State. All engagements are contracted through Nay Systems LLC.