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Early- or growth-stage companies that need CTO-level judgment on architecture, hiring, and roadmap without a full-time executive salary.
Fractional & Interim CTO
Hands-on CTO leadership for SaaS and EdTech companies
I step in when a CTO departs, delivery stalls, or the platform and team need to scale. From writing code to leading organizations of 600+, I align architecture, team, roadmap, and business priorities.
Architecture, organization, roadmap, and delivery leadership in one accountable seat.
Brought in when
Engineering leadership is the gap
- You're between full-time CTOs and need continuity now
- Delivery has stalled and the roadmap keeps slipping
- The platform needs to modernize before it can scale
- A board, investor, or acquirer needs a straight technical read
- AI/ML investment needs to turn into real product outcomes
600Largest engineering organization led
99.95%Platform uptime achieved
4Acquired companies integrated
75%+Automated test coverage achieved
Who I Work With
Companies where technology has become a business constraint.
Most of my clients are SaaS and EdTech companies at a specific inflection point: a founder or CEO who needs a technical partner, a board managing a leadership transition, or a platform that's outgrown the architecture and team structure that got it here.
Between CTOs
A CTO has left or is about to. I keep engineering moving, protect delivery commitments, and hand off cleanly to a permanent hire.
Platform or team under strain
Uptime, delivery speed, or technical debt has become a business problem, and leadership needs someone who has fixed this before.
How I Help
Four ways I typically get involved.
Every engagement is scoped to what the business actually needs — from a few days a month to a full-time interim seat.
01
Fractional / Interim CTO
Ongoing or full-time technical leadership — architecture, hiring, roadmap, and board reporting — without a full-time search.
02
Team Build & Scale
Structuring, hiring, and mentoring engineering organizations through fast growth, from a handful of engineers to hundreds.
03
Platform Modernization
Re-architecting aging platforms toward microservices, cloud-native infrastructure, and applied AI/ML without stopping product delivery.
04
Compliance, Security & M&A
SOC2 and FERPA-aligned programs, technical due diligence, and post-acquisition integration led end-to-end.
Selected Executive Results
Leadership measured in operating outcomes.
Examples from previous full-time executive roles across SaaS and EdTech.
Imagine Learning (Edgenuity)
Grew the engineering org from 25 to 100+ people in six months; took platform uptime from 96% to 99.9% and test coverage from near-zero to 75%+.
BookNook
Raised platform uptime from 99.7% to 99.95% in six months, shipped a patent-pending tutor-matching algorithm at a 99% match rate, and achieved SOC2 Type 2.
ConnectWise
Led a 500+ person global engineering organization through four acquisition integrations, with full P&L ownership of the engineering budget.
Ready to talk about your engineering leadership gap?
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