Fractional CTO and tech advisory
Partner with founders and leadership on technology selection, delivery, engineering practices, and building a sustainable in-house function.
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Architectural consulting and tech advisory for startups and scaleups
I help fast-moving technology companies build scalable, resilient, and cost-effective foundations through strategic growth, cloud transformation, AI adoption, and investment readiness.
Fractional CTO · AI-first engineering · Architecture and cloud reviews · Technical due diligence
How I can help
AI-first engineering
Advisory, training, and hands-on implementation, including legacy environments, grounded in real production work, not hype.
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Architecture and cloud reviews
Codebase, infrastructure, performance, scalability, reliability, and cloud cost, with clear, actionable recommendations.
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Technical due diligence
Independent assessments for PE/VC and leadership: architectural risk, scalability, vendor dependencies, and engineering capability.
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Roadmaps and strategy
Cloud strategy, vendor proposals, discovery work, and board-ready documentation to support transformation and growth.
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We are ZERO months away from any good engineer launching their own product
AI is not making good engineers obsolete — it is making engineer-led startups feasible right now, not in six to twelve months.
“Product engineer” seems to be a fashionable term on posts now that we have AI like we made a sudden discovery of engineers value.
IMO all engineers should have been always been product engineers. Full stop. I love building with AI. I loved it two plus years ago when I first saw what it could do, because I’m an engineer and an architect and care…
For AI-generated code, targeting volume of tests first makes code changes safer, even if test quality not great.
There has always been debate about the “right” way to test software, unit versus end-to-end, TDD versus tests afterwards, 100% coverage versus sensible coverage. There is no universally correct answer because testing…