About
The shop and the name behind it.
McNee & Co. is led by Jeremy Nay. The “& Co.” is real: a small bench of senior contractors he’s worked with for years, brought in when the job calls for more hands.
Who’s behind this
Jeremy Nay
Founder & principal · Muh·KNEE
Twenty-some years of building software and leading the engineering teams that own it. Most recently Director of Data Engineering at Expedia Group, where he ran 39 engineers across four platforms on 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 that ships in Windows Server, Configuration Manager, and Intune.
He ran a small custom-software shop early in his career, back in 2002. Twenty years later, after enterprise platforms, fraud systems, security data warehouses, and a RAG analytics onboarding system that freed about $2M of analyst capacity, he’s doing the same shape of work again. The judgment is the same. The tooling underneath is one the 2003 version of him wouldn’t 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 drop in credit-card fraud losses (Expedia)
- • 4× SIEM scale, 40% drop in IAM operations overhead (Expedia)
- • 39 engineers, $11.4M annual investment, four platforms (Expedia)
- • Agentic software factory in production since February 2026 (McNee)
How the “& Co.” works
A real bench, right-sized to the work.
Every engagement is led by Jeremy himself. When a scope calls for more hands, he pulls from a small group of senior contractors he’s worked with for years. A front-end specialist when there’s a real interface to build. A data-engineering person when there’s data to move. A designer when the work calls for one. Nobody on the engagement is junior.
The team is sized to the work and nothing else. Some projects need Jeremy on his own. Others need four people for six weeks. We’ve never added a person to look bigger, and we’re not going to start.
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. Engagements are contracted through Nay Systems LLC.