Technical Leadership That Delivers Real Impact.
I'm Alex. After 20+ years building technology and leading global teams, I love solving complex technical challenges alongside ambitious founders and executives. No buzzwords - just practical experience focused on real outcomes.
One dedicated day each week to drive your technical strategy, team growth and execution.
[1 spot available from February 2025]
Delivery Model
- One dedicated day per week as your Fractional CTO
- Additional capacity when needed
- Dedicated Slack channel for ongoing communication
- Support for critical questions
- Monthly subscription, billed in advance
- Pause or adjust anytime
Pre-Seed & Seed Partnership
Monthly subscription for pre-revenue startups and early-stage companies.
Every Startup is unique. These services are typical examples. I'm here to support and provide longterm technical leadership specific to your challenges.
Core Services
- Direct founder partnership and support
- Technical strategy, vision and roadmap development
- MVP architecture and system design based on company stage
- Investor pitch deck support
- Tech due diligence
- Engineering team structure planning and budgeting
- Offshore Eng team management and quality control
- Technical validation and POC development
Series A+ & Scale Partnership
Monthly subscription for funded companies navigating growth, transformation, or strategic change.
Every company's journey is unique. These services are typical examples. I'll tailor the engagement to the evolving needs and challenges of the business. This is a partnership.
Core Services
- Ensuring engineering efforts align with business goals
- Engineering org design and process frameworks
- Tecnical leadership coaching
- Team scaling and hiring strategy / support
- Engineering efficiency systems and tooling
- Executive team collaboration
- Reducing technical debt and evolving system design
- Data strategy and AI roadmap
Services & Impact
As your Fractional CTO, I deliver experienced technical leadership at a fraction of a full-time hire. I build frameworks to fit the needs, size and stage of a business focusing on Engineering velocity, developer happiness and business outcomes. Whether you're scaling teams, launching products, or seeking investment, I bring practical and hands-on CTO and VP experience focused on meaningful outcomes. I thrive on solving technical and organisational problems whilst building longterm partnerships.
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.
Strategy
Business outcomes
Implement systems and processes to ensure Engineering effort is serving real business outcomes.
Executive Partnership
I have experience working with and partnering executive teams to deliver org-wide change.
Founder Partnership
Serve as a strategic technical confidant, advisor and partner to non technical founders.
Roadmap Development
Define and layout engineering, AI, data and product visions along with roadmaps and systems to reach the vision.
Engineering Efficiency
Engineering Output
Implement systems & frameworks designed to increase engineering productivity and cohesion. Reduce or remove genuine or perceived silos within eng and product orgs.
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).
AI
Internal tooling
AI not for the sake of it. AI can have a significant impact within internal tooling and overall engineering efficiency. I can spot gaps and opportunities to introduce AI into your internal tooling flow.
GenAI
LLMs can be a blackbox. I have experience testing and evaluating LLMs to ensure you are using the right model for the right task in order to drive the correct desired outcome.
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
I have hands-on experience hiring hundreds of Engineers throughout my career, including hiring from 0-1 and beyond. Here I can partner with an exisitng people team (if you have one) to build effective hiring strategies and processes.
Training
Develop and deliver training programs for your engineering teams.
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.