Fractional CTO services

Fractional CTO leadership for founders and growth-stage teams.

I help companies make better technical decisions, ship faster, and operate more reliably. You get senior technology leadership across roadmap, architecture, hiring, delivery, and operations—without full-time executive cost.

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What I do as a Fractional CTO

Strategy and roadmap

Turn business goals into a practical technical roadmap with clear priorities, timelines, and tradeoffs.

Architecture and execution

Lead architecture decisions, reduce technical risk, and keep delivery moving through difficult product and platform milestones.

Team and operations

Support hiring, team process, vendor decisions, and operational reliability so engineering becomes a force multiplier.

How I engage

Flexible engagement models

Choose the level of leadership you need now, then scale up or down as your team and product evolve.

CTO Sprint (2 weeks)Audit + 90-day plan
Fractional CTO CoreWeekly leadership
Scale and transition3-6 month support
Architecture and risk reviewsExecutive-level
Hiring and team processHands-on
Investor/technical diligenceOn-demand

Where I add the most value

Founder-led startups

You have traction but need experienced technical leadership to avoid expensive mistakes and accelerate execution.

Teams under delivery pressure

Deadlines are slipping, technical debt is growing, and roadmap confidence is low. I help stabilize and create momentum.

Platform modernization

Legacy systems, infra complexity, and fragmented tools are slowing growth. I create a modernization plan you can execute.

AI systems leadership

Applied AI and private inference expertise

I help teams move from AI experimentation to reliable production systems with pragmatic architecture, model serving, and operational controls.

I work hands-on across OpenClaw automation, self-hosted inference stacks, and deployment strategy so teams can ship fast without losing reliability.

OpenClaw orchestrationProduction-ready
vLLM deployment and tuningSelf-hosted
Ollama workflowsLocal + edge inference
Model routing and provider strategyCost/perf optimized
Automation and agent workflowsOperationalized
Secure infrastructure patternsCloud + on-prem

Case Studies

Turning creative concepts into city-scale execution

Valentine's Conspiracy campaign visual Featured in Wired

Valentine’s Conspiracy

I partnered with Accelr8 to scale their ARG from a ~20-person Startup Founder game in Golden Gate Park into a broader Valentine’s Takeover of San Francisco.

I led product and technical execution across campaign structure, launch planning, and rapid iteration during live engagement. The campaign was later featured in Wired, including coverage of using a service that let AI agents rent human task-runners.

  • Scaled from boutique ARG format to a city-wide activation concept
  • Owned technical operations and rapid iteration during live engagement
  • Bridged narrative design with practical platform execution
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Selected work

Explore projects where I’ve led product and platform execution across long-term engagements, platform rebuilds, and business-critical operations.

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