SEEKING WORK - Senior Technologist, CTO | Onsite EU / UK | REMOTE WORLDWIDE
Fractional CTO for Startups – MVP to Maturity
I help early-stage teams avoid costly tech mistakes and scale confidently. I provide a range of services for teams at different growth stages.
* CTO LaunchPad: Build MVPs that don’t collapse later
- MVP planning and build oversight
- Hiring your first devs (not too early, not too late)
- Tech due diligence for early investors
- Set up strong but lightweight processes
* CTO ScaleUp: Grow your team and architecture without chaos
- Re-architect before it's too late
- Hire and structure your engineering org
- Scale delivery and CI/CD
- Build a product / tech culture that lasts
* CTO Stabilize: Tech debt, infra, and compliance before Series B panic
- Clean up tech debt and prepare for audits
- Level up infra and observability
- Guide the engineering org through rapid change
- Align tech with exec goals (finance, ops, product)
* 25 years management experience, from team leader to CTO/CIO to CEO/MD
* 15+ years AWS and Azure cloud experience - architecture, development, delivery, operations
* 35 years systems engineering and DevOps experience, from bare-metal to Kubernetes, from IaaS to PaaS
* 23+ years Java enterprise development and architecture experience; 20+ years Python development; 10 years C/C+
* 25 years experience in numerous data technologies, from RDBMes to data warehouses to NoSQL databases