Fractional CTO
Technical strategy, architecture direction, hiring support, delivery planning, and executive-level engineering communication.
I help companies that need senior technical direction, hands-on product engineering, or a pragmatic path for adopting AI-assisted development practices.
I work best where product ambiguity, technical depth, and delivery pressure meet: clarifying tradeoffs, building the right first version, shaping teams, and making systems easier to evolve.
Technical strategy, architecture direction, hiring support, delivery planning, and executive-level engineering communication.
Independent review of product architecture, delivery plans, engineering risk, technical debt, and team execution patterns.
Practical workflows for AI-assisted coding, agentic development, review practices, and quality controls for teams using tools like Claude Code.
Hands-on engineering for critical product work, prototypes, platform integrations, web and mobile systems, and high-leverage technical initiatives.
Early-stage teams needing experienced technical leadership, product teams with a complex delivery challenge, organizations adopting AI development workflows, and companies that need senior engineering execution without a full-time hire.
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