Selected work
Each one was a different shape — a few months of fractional CTO, a two-week due-diligence read, a one-day process review. Each one taught me something different.
A growth-stage SaaS team had lost their CTO mid-quarter. The roadmap was thin, the on-call rotation was suffering, and a planned regional expansion was already in motion.
I worked alongside the founders for six months — stabilised the on-call rotation, paused the regional expansion, hired a senior engineering manager. Hand-off to the new CTO was clean.
Strict GDPR posture, an LLM proof-of-concept stuck in legal review for months, and a team unsure whether it should ship at all.
A scoped pilot for one internal workflow, hosted on EU infrastructure, with a clear data-residency story. Smaller than the original proposal — but it actually shipped.
A 20-year-old internal platform that the team was afraid to touch. Every new product feature was waiting on a 'rewrite' that kept getting deferred.
A six-month plan to retire the platform piece by piece, behind feature flags. No big-bang. The team got their confidence back before the code was even gone.
It's the work that fits the company that has to live with it. Most of what I do is help teams find that fit — sometimes by building, more often by stopping.
A two-week technical read for an acquirer. Codebase health, team strength, key-person risk.
Helped a hardware founder decide what to build in-house and what to take from open source.
Two days on-site. Found the actual blocker — it was not the framework — and helped them fix it.