I turn engineering chaos
into discipline.
Fractional CTO for funded startups that need senior technical leadership — architecture, AI/LLM strategy, and engineering hiring — without a $300K/year hire. 10+ years, currently taking on 2-3 clients.
You don't have a CTO. You have a founder pretending to be one.
Architecture decisions get made ad hoc. Engineering hires don't work out. Your AI roadmap is more hope than plan.
And when investors ask hard technical questions, there's no one who can answer with real confidence.
No one owns architecture
Technical debt is swept under the rug until the system breaks at scale.
Hiring is a guessing game
Resumes look good, but tech interviews fail to weed out bad hires.
AI features are vibes, not a plan
Hype-driven wrappers replace sound agentic & RAG infrastructure.
Tech debt compounds silently
No guardrails or code reviews mean developers slow to a crawl.
Fractional CTO, full scope.
Technical Strategy & Roadmap
Translate business goals into a technical plan you can defend to investors.
Architecture & Code Quality
Review what's built, catch what breaks at scale, set standards before debt compounds.
AI/LLM Product Strategy
Production RAG pipelines and LLM agents I've actually shipped — not prototypes. What's real, what's hype.
Engineering Hiring & Team Building
Job specs, technical interviews, team structure that survives past 10 engineers.
DevOps & Infrastructure Cost Control
Cut cloud spend, fix the deploy pipeline, kill the 2am pages.
Investor-Facing Technical Narrative
Help you tell the technical story clearly in diligence and board conversations.
The discipline shows up in the numbers.
Page load time, redesigned platform architecture (Token Metrics)
Increase in deployment frequency, 15-engineer team (Token Metrics)
Cloud infrastructure cost reduction (Skugal/InsurTech client)
AI search latency reduction via semantic caching and query pruning
Daily database queries optimized with custom indexing and read-replicas
Engineers hired, vetted, and onboarded across distributed teams
LLM API cost reduction through structured output validation and model routing
CI/CD build and test pipeline execution speedup, unblocking daily releases
No long contracts. No guessing.
Free 30-min discovery call
I learn your product, team, and where it actually hurts.
Week 1: Technical audit
Written assessment of your codebase, infra, and roadmap — yours even if we don't move forward.
Embedded retainer
Weekly cadence, direct async access, deliverables tied to what matters at your stage.
Founding-client pricing — first 3 clients only.
Best for pre-seed, non-technical founders needing a sounding board + architecture sign-off.
Best for funded startups actively building, hiring, or shipping an AI feature.
30-day paid trial, either side can walk away. Month-to-month after 90 days. Equity optional (0.25-1%, vesting 12-24mo).
Let's see where your engineering actually stands.
30 minutes. No pitch — just a real look at what's working and what isn't.
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