I was a surgical technologist. Now I’m a process server who built the system that runs his business — and runs it for others. The thread is the same: precision under stakes.
I wanted cardiac surgery, so I went and got it — the hard way. When the program told me it wasn’t going to happen and tried to place me elsewhere, I went to the hospital’s heart team myself and earned my own spot on it. Open hearts, bypass, the kind of room where the margin between outcome and incident is measured in seconds and in counts.
My world was cardiac and vascular — including the hybrid cases, where an open-chest bypass ran alongside live computer imaging guiding the procedure in real time. That was the work I loved most: the room where medicine met the machine, where what the screens told us decided the next move. Even then, before I ever wrote a line of software, I was drawn to the place where surgery and technology fused.
When I graduated they hired me on the spot — the only surgical tech on the team, running two operating rooms across two hospitals. Nearly a decade in the OR. The job is always the same: be several steps ahead, hand the surgeon what’s needed before it’s asked for, and make sure every count at close matches every count at open. You don’t improvise when the stakes are that high. You follow the protocol, you document everything, and you do not leave mid-count.
That discipline does not transfer to most jobs. It transferred directly to this one.
My daughter was on the way, and there was a moment in the OR where I had to decide. Write the rest of it out the safe way and be unhappy — or show her, by actually doing it, that if you want something in this world you go for it. I went for it. I left.
“Stability that can’t survive one deliberate risk in the right direction isn’t stability. It’s inertia.”
I became a registered California process server and built Central Valley Process Servers from a single case to more than 1,000 served personally — as a single father, supporting my daughter on the thing I was building.
Then I did the part most people in my industry never do. More than 700 of those cases ran through a system I built from scratch — no software background, just the same approach I used in the OR: map the workflow, find every failure point, automate the steps a machine can own so the human owns the ones it can’t. It runs the business end to end while I’m in the field.
I built that system to run my own company. Now I run it for other businesses — Growth-as-a-Service. Not software you log into and operate; a system I run for you, so you get the growth without managing the machine. My own company is the proof it works. Taking on clients by application.
The longer game is California. I know this state’s legal system as a process server — service, court running, filings, probate, county records — and I know its medical world from the inside. I’m earning my real estate license, and I invest with a long horizon. The throughline is the same as everywhere else: I’m building something my daughter can inherit as a set of skills, not just a number. I write about all of it here as it earns the right to be written about.
Jesse Moraga 