Services
Fractional CTO for growing companies
Technical Advisory
For founders, CTOs and product managers who need to make important technical decisions without discovering three years later they picked the wrong stack. I've spent fifteen years evaluating architectures, inheriting other people's code, fixing what was done badly, and getting projects to production. That experience is what I bring to the table for people who need to decide now.
Software that fails rarely fails in a dramatic moment. It fails slowly, one rushed decision at a time, until the team spends more energy fighting its own codebase than building anything new. The decisions that actually matter (which framework to use, how to structure the work, when to rewrite instead of patching, which external service to integrate) are almost always made under pressure, by people who know the business but don't yet know how a software system ages.
That's where I come in. Not to replace your team, but to give you and your team a senior, independent second opinion that you can actually act on. Sometimes that's a single architecture review before a big investment. Other times it's a months-long engagement where I sit in on meetings, review the code, and work side by side with the developers on the hardest problems.
What you get
Architecture review and technical due diligence
Written, practical analyses of your current stack, a rearchitecture you're planning, or a piece of software you're considering buying versus building. I take the time to understand the real constraints (team size, budget, timelines, existing integrations) and come back with a document you can hand to your team or your board. No generic report, no list of good intentions.
Hands-on work when it actually matters
When your team is stuck on a hard problem (a performance bottleneck, a complex migration, a feature that keeps slipping), I work side by side with them. I write code with them, unblock the path, and stay until the problem is live in production and the team can handle it on their own. I don't show up, give an opinion and disappear. The thing gets closed properly.
Infrastructure and cost discipline
Practical advice on self-hosted infrastructure (Hetzner, Coolify, Docker) and the tradeoffs against managed platforms like Vercel, AWS or Heroku. For almost every early-stage company, the cloud bill quietly grows into a serious cost line without anyone noticing. I help you figure out what's worth paying for and what's just burning money.
The point of this work is not to write more code. The point is: your team ships faster, your architecture holds up through the next stage of growth, and your next important technical decision is the right one.