Technical leadership, strategy and support for early stage startups and beyond.
Hello, I'm Alex, I'm passionate about solving problems and helping people. I bring with me over 20 years experience building Technology, and all that comes with it. Outcome orientated, I partner with select companies and select founders as their Fractional CTO, providing executive-level technical guidance, support, coaching and strategic planning. Subscription based booking to secure me for a set day each week. Or contact me for a custom plan.
Services
Bringing me in as a Fractional CTO provides you access to an experienced CTO for a fraction of the time and cost it would take to hire a full-time CTO. Additionally I can work in support and accelerate your existing technical leadership team, or help to hire a fulltime CTO. I've vast experience building pitch decks and speaking with investors, and can be named on your pitch deck as your CTO, if required attending investor meetings.
Technical Founder support
MVP & Funding
Technical direction and support in designing and crafting your MVP for beta launch and funding.
Technical feasibility
Partner and collaborate with your design team to manage and guide the technical feasibility of your product vision.
Investment
As Fractional CTO, I can be named on your pitch deck and attend investor meetings. Prepare all technical aspects of your pitch deck.
Engineering Efficiency
Comprehensive Technology Assessment
Conduct a thorough examination of your existing technology infrastructure, including the technology stack, architecture, tools, and patterns. Review of existing software development processes. Review data pipelines and reporting processes.
Engineering Output
Implement systems designed to increase engineering productivity in alignment with business goals.
Operational Cohesion
Identify and remove Silo’s within an organisation to ensure all engineering effort is geared towards a business goal and outcome. Create alignment and understanding between all teams and stakeholders.
Risk & Cost management
Identify and mitigate risks in your software development process. Identify cost savings within your existing technical stack, including optimisation of AWS and infra costs.
Developer Experience
Review and identify improvements to the Developer experience within a software development process, which will result in increased developer happiness (retention) and increased velocity (business outcomes).
Data & BI
Review and improve data pipelines and BI reporting capabilities
Mentorship & coaching
Leadership development
Mentor, coach and support your engineering leaders. Ensure your Eng leaders are growing and reaching their potential. Specific and bespoke training and development to ensure your leaders have the tools and resources needed to succeed.
Strategic Hiring Guidance
Build effective hiring strategies and processes.
Training
Develop and deliver training programs for your engineering teams.
Strategy
Business outcomes
Guide and accelerate business goals and outcomes via your technology and engineering teams.
Executive Partnership
Serve as a technical partner to executive teams.
Founder Partnership
Serve as a strategic technical confidant, advisor and partner to non technical founders.
Roadmap Development
Define and craft engineering, data and product visions along with roadmaps and systems to reach the vision.
AI
Internal tooling
Utilise AI in your internal tooling to increase efficiency and productivity.
GenAI
Ensure you are using the right model for the correct desired outcome.
Engineering Management
Manage Dev team & Output
Manage the output of your development team, ensuring they are aligned with business goals and outcomes. Ensure your team is delivering on time and on budget.
Offshore development
If your development team is offshore, I can lead and manage the team to ensuring tickets are spec’d correctly and the technical quality is high.