Fractional CTO · AI-native engineering
You bring the vision and the domain expertise. I bring twenty years of shipping product, as a hands-on fractional CTO who’s led at the executive level and still builds with AI.
The wrong architecture, a mis-timed hire, six months spent building the wrong thing. The early technical decisions are the expensive ones to get wrong. What you need is someone who’s seen what breaks at scale and can tell what actually matters on the path to product-market fit.
And the way software gets built has changed. I build AI-native workflows around your actual team, not a template, so development gets genuinely fast. But the real win isn’t speed. It’s that you learn what the market wants faster, and I know how to turn that into the right calls instead of just more code.
The result: a small team that ships like a much bigger one.
Core services
When you need a clear read before a big technology, product, or hiring decision.
When you need senior technical leadership without the full-time price tag.
When you need something shipped, not another strategy deck.
When you or your investors need an honest read on technical risk.
Twenty years across fintech, insurtech, climate tech, and e-discovery — and a consistent pattern of pairing systematic execution with AI to move teams further, faster.
From an AI-native overhaul at a money-transfer platform to a climate-tech scale to acquisition, the pattern holds: build systematic execution and AI capability together, and lean teams start punching well above their weight.
I’ve spent 20+ years building software and leading engineering teams across finance, insurance, climate, legal, and healthcare. I’ve tripled delivery speed, taken platforms from 90% to 99.9% uptime, helped a startup scale to acquisition, and shipped products that removed 200,000 metric tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere.
These days I’m a hands-on fractional CTO for early-stage founders, productionizing prototypes and shaping the technical strategy that gets them to product-market fit and funded. I stay hands-on on purpose: I’m also building a social impact app with AI as my development partner, so my advice comes from how AI-native development actually works, not how it’s marketed.
I care most about technology that solves real problems for real people. If that’s what you’re building and you want a hands-on technical partner who’ll give you a straight answer, let’s talk.
If your prototype needs to become real, your roadmap needs a point of view, or you want a customized AI strategy for your team and product, let’s talk. No pitch, just a straight read on what it would take.