Fractional CTO / Technology Advisor

Multi‑industry leadership: SaaS, e‑commerce, healthtech, manufacturing. Early stage through growth. Strategy plus pragmatic execution guidance—not ivory‑tower decks.

Turn recurring engineering friction into a focused 90‑day clarity & velocity lift.

Do These Feel Familiar?

• Release cadence slowing; roadmap commitments slip.
• Feature ideas / requests pile up; learn cycles (experiments) rarely reach production.
• Rewrite talk growing—no clear incremental alternative.
• Tech debt complaints rising; impact not quantified.
• Production quality issues / incidents consuming >20% of engineering time.
• Activation, retention, conversion, or operational metrics are fuzzy or debated.
• Infra or platform cost curves outpacing revenue (margin pressure).
• Cross‑team handoffs (ops, fulfillment, compliance, clinical, manufacturing) create hidden queues & context switching.
• Architecture decisions live in transient chat threads; rationale disappears.
• Talent onboarding drag: “It takes weeks to become productive here.”

If several land, you’re likely leaking velocity, focus, and optionality.

What Typically Improves (30 / 60 / 90)

30: Shared baseline: delivery cadence, hotspots, metric gaps, risk & debt snapshot. Immediate friction removals underway.

60: Lightweight experiment / measurement loop operating; priority debt & risk portfolio ranked; phased evolution path replaces rewrite speculation.

90: Higher experiment velocity (often ~2× learn cycles shipped), clearer roadmap confidence, reduced unplanned work %, durable decision log.

Domain Patterns (Examples)

• SaaS: Experiment velocity, activation instrumentation, incremental scale (see detailed SaaS focus »).
• E‑commerce: Checkout & funnel performance, fulfillment latency visibility, promo resilience.
• Healthtech: Compliance‑friendly metrics, data integrity guardrails, safe iteration without audit surprises.
• Manufacturing / Industrial: Legacy integration, workflow simplification, downtime / exception transparency.

Why Not Hire Full‑Time First?

• Weeks to clarity vs months of search.
• Pay for leverage / decision layers; your team executes.
• Produces a grounded spec for future full‑time leadership hire.

Leading Indicators It’s Working

• More shipped learn cycles / experiments per month.
• Unplanned & interrupt work percentage trending down.
• Decision volatility drops; rationale captured.
• Rewrite chatter replaced by incremental path.
• Engineers report clearer priorities; fewer emergency pings.

Next Step

Book Intro Call
15–30 min fit call: surface current bottleneck, desired milestone, and whether a short diagnostic is the right first step.