Fractional CTO & Software Architect
Senior engineering leader with 15+ years across B2B SaaS, fintech, and regulated industries. I help teams ship scalable web platforms and data pipelines — with the AI-enabled, quality-first practices to sustain them.
Trusted with strategy, architecture, and delivery — without the overhead of a full-time hire.
What a fractional CTO does
Hiring the right CTO takes months and costs six figures. A fractional engagement gives you instant access to proven expertise: guiding your team, pressure-testing architecture, and aligning technology with the business.
Define a clear technology roadmap tied to business outcomes
Lead teams through scaling, hiring, and transformation
Evaluate vendors, architecture, and build-vs-buy decisions
Bridge the gap between technical execution and the boardroom
0→1 architecture, first hires, investor-ready tech
Platform, process, and org design for the next 10x
Modernization, audits, and delivery uplift
Due diligence and technical risk assessment
Services
Flexible engagements across the full technology leadership spectrum — from ongoing fractional CTO work to focused, scoped projects.
Executive technology leadership on a part-time basis — own the strategy, architecture, and team the way a full-time CTO would.
Make the foundational decisions that scale — system design, data models, and the platform decisions that define velocity.
Translate business goals into a concrete, sequenced technology plan that stakeholders can trust and the team can execute.
Integrate AI into the day-to-day engineering workflow — development, testing, and system design — so a small team punches above its weight.
Stand up automation-first QA practices that raise release quality and speed — the testing discipline most teams lack.
Sounding-board engagements for founders, CEOs, and engineering leaders navigating hard technical and org decisions.
How I work
Strong opinions, held loosely and adapted to your context.
The right technology decisions start from the business, not the framework. I lead with outcomes.
Mature, well-understood tools win at scale. I reach for novelty only when it earns its risk.
Automation-first QA and clean CI/CD make speed and reliability the same thing, not a tradeoff.
Sustainable velocity comes from clear ownership, good process, and people who can ship without me.
Case studies
Real engagements, real outcomes — across government, B2B SaaS, fintech, and regulated industries.
Iowa's open data platform rebuild was eighteen months into a six-month quote, with the vendor projecting another year. The State of Iowa and Google asked me to take over — assess the project, own the system design, and finish it. Five months later, data.iowa.gov was delivered, about $600K under the incumbent's quote.
A fitness app company brought me in to lead a full replatform: strategize their data, move the backend from Django to FastAPI, and rewrite the web and mobile apps against the new API — all on a limited timeline, with a data migration that had to be handled properly. An engagement of leadership, strategy, and software architecture.
Iowa's Executive Order 10 tasked every state agency with cutting regulatory burden — but progress lived in thousands of Administrative Code PDFs. I built data pipelines and dashboards that turned the code into quarterly, agency-by-agency metrics, so key leaders could see exactly which agencies were reducing restrictive language and how consolidations moved the numbers.
Whether you're hiring your first engineer or untangling a legacy platform, I can help you make the right calls with confidence. Let's talk.