What I do as a Fractional CTO
Strategy and roadmap
Turn business goals into a practical technical roadmap with clear priorities, timelines, and tradeoffs.
Architecture and execution
Lead architecture decisions, reduce technical risk, and keep delivery moving through difficult product and platform milestones.
Team and operations
Support hiring, team process, vendor decisions, and operational reliability so engineering becomes a force multiplier.
Flexible engagement models
Choose the level of leadership you need now, then scale up or down as your team and product evolve.
- CTO Sprint (2 weeks): Audit + 90-day plan
- Fractional CTO Core: Weekly leadership
- Scale and transition: 3-6 month support
- Architecture and risk reviews: Executive-level
- Hiring and team process: Hands-on
- Investor/technical diligence: On-demand
Where I add the most value
Founder-led startups
You have traction but need experienced technical leadership to avoid expensive mistakes and accelerate execution.
Teams under delivery pressure
Deadlines are slipping, technical debt is growing, and roadmap confidence is low. I help stabilize and create momentum.
Platform modernization
Legacy systems, infra complexity, and fragmented tools are slowing growth. I create a modernization plan you can execute.
Applied AI and private inference expertise
I help teams move from AI experimentation to reliable production systems with pragmatic architecture, model serving, and operational controls.
I work hands-on across OpenClaw automation, self-hosted inference stacks, and deployment strategy so teams can ship fast without losing reliability.
- OpenClaw orchestration: Production-ready
- vLLM deployment and tuning: Self-hosted
- Ollama workflows: Local + edge inference
- Model routing and provider strategy: Cost/perf optimized
- Automation and agent workflows: Operationalized
- Secure infrastructure patterns: Cloud + on-prem
Turning creative concepts into city-scale execution
Featured in Wired
Valentine’s Conspiracy
I partnered with Accelr8 to scale their ARG from a ~20-person Startup Founder game in Golden Gate Park into a broader Valentine’s Takeover of San Francisco.
I led product and technical execution across campaign structure, launch planning, and rapid iteration during live engagement. The campaign was later featured in Wired, including coverage of using a service that let AI agents rent human task-runners.
- Scaled from boutique ARG format to a city-wide activation concept
- Owned technical operations and rapid iteration during live engagement
- Bridged narrative design with practical platform execution
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Selected work
Explore projects where I’ve led product and platform execution across long-term engagements, platform rebuilds, and business-critical operations.