Consulting and Contracting

I help companies that need senior technical direction, hands-on product engineering, or a pragmatic path for adopting AI-assisted development practices.

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How I Help

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.

Engagement Areas

01

Fractional CTO

Technical strategy, architecture direction, hiring support, delivery planning, and executive-level engineering communication.

02

Architecture and Delivery Review

Independent review of product architecture, delivery plans, engineering risk, technical debt, and team execution patterns.

03

AI Tooling Adoption

Practical workflows for AI-assisted coding, agentic development, review practices, and quality controls for teams using tools like Claude Code.

04

Senior IC Execution

Hands-on engineering for critical product work, prototypes, platform integrations, web and mobile systems, and high-leverage technical initiatives.

Good Fits

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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