Technical Leadership When You Need It
Experienced CTO guidance for startups and growing companies navigating technical decisions, team building, and engineering challenges.
Common Engineering Challenges
Sound familiar?
Shipping Takes Forever
Simple features take weeks. Releases are painful. Nobody can explain why everything moves so slowly.
Architecture Won't Scale
Your system was built for 1,000 users and now you have 100,000. Every new feature feels like surgery on a house of cards.
Can't Hire Fast Enough
You're growing headcount but velocity isn't keeping up. New hires take months to become productive.
Teams Aren't Aligned
Engineers are busy but business goals aren't advancing. Different teams duplicate work or build conflicting solutions.
No Engineering Visibility
You can't predict delivery dates. The board asks "when will it ship?" and nobody has a confident answer.
Legacy Systems Holding You Back
Critical systems run on outdated technology. Every change risks breaking something. Innovation stalls.
Who I Work With
Building Your First Team
You're a founder making critical technical decisions without a CTO. I help you hire the right engineers, choose the right stack, and build an architecture that won't need rewriting in six months.
Growing Past 10 Engineers
What worked at 5 engineers is breaking at 20. I help you design team structures that reduce friction, implement metrics that matter, and fix delivery bottlenecks systematically.
Modernizing Legacy Systems
Your technology stack is a liability, not an asset. I help you modernize without disrupting the business, de-risk your transformation roadmap, and build a case the board believes.
How I Work
A clear, predictable process from first call to delivered results
Understand
I start by listening. I learn your business, your technical challenges, and what success looks like for you. No generic playbooks — just your specific situation.
Scope
I define exactly what we'll do, what you'll get, and what it costs. Fixed price, clear deliverables, defined timeline. No surprises.
Execute
I work alongside your team — interviewing, analyzing, designing solutions. You get regular updates and can see progress every step of the way.
Deliver
You receive actionable deliverables — not shelf-ware reports. Implementation roadmaps, team training, and executive presentations you can act on immediately.
Expected Outcomes
What companies typically achieve after working with me
Faster Delivery
Reduced lead time from idea to production through systematic bottleneck elimination
Fewer Incidents
Fewer production issues through better architecture, testing, and deployment practices
Time to ROI
Most improvements pay for themselves within a quarter through efficiency gains
Scalable Growth
Systems and processes designed to handle 10x your current scale without rebuilding
Based on industry benchmarks for engineering optimization initiatives.
Why Me?
I've done this before — at every stage and scale
Not Sure Where to Start?
Take the engineering assessment to understand where your team stands.
Want to talk?
I'm always happy to have a conversation about your engineering challenges. No pitch, no pressure.