I help growth-stage companies turn technical chaos into engineering discipline — without the $300K+ full-time CTO price tag.
Embedded in your leadership team. Owning architecture, delivery, and the hard technical calls — one to three days a week, on retainer. The seniority of a CTO, scaled to what your stage actually needs.
A leadership role — not a project.
A Fractional CTO is a part-time, ongoing leadership role. I serve as the CTO for a company that doesn't need — or can't yet justify — a full-time one. Think fractional CFO or fractional CMO: embedded in the leadership team, in the exec meetings, making the architecture decisions, and owning engineering outcomes — just not five days a week.
Three ways to buy technical leadership
Three pillars of the engagement
Architecture & Risk Judgment
I make the technology decisions that are expensive to reverse, and I name the risks before they become incidents — sound calls on what to build, what to buy, and what to leave alone.
Engineering Leadership & Standards
I set the bar for how software gets built — code quality, delivery predictability, accountability — and I raise the level of the people doing it. Leadership isn't just direction; it's the standard everyone calibrates to.
The Translation Layer
I make technical reality legible to the business and business priorities legible to engineering — the buffer that absorbs the noise each side generates and hands the other only what it needs to act.
The companies that need this most
The founding CTO just left
Seed or Series A startups suddenly without technical leadership — the team keeps shipping, but no one is steering.
Building software, not a tech company
Non-tech businesses that need serious technical leadership — but can't justify a $300K+ full-time hire to get it.
In transition
Companies mid-acquisition, pivot, or rapid scale — where the technical decisions of the next 12 months are the expensive ones.