Fractional CTO
Ongoing ownership of architecture, hiring, and delivery — the default when you need someone accountable for outcomes, not just opinions. More on fractional CTO engagements
Fractional CTO · Technology Leadership · London
Fractional CTO support and hands-on technology leadership, backed by real technical strategy.
Available for fractional CTO, technical advisory, and scoped hands-on consulting engagements. I help organisations with technical strategy, software architecture, and product & engineering leadership — plus technical due diligence when you're evaluating a technology bet. Leadership, product understanding, technical depth, and hands-on delivery, combined.
Ways to work together
Three shapes. Pick the one that fits.
Technical advisor
I work as a startup technical advisor on a part-time basis — a senior sounding board a day or two a month on architecture, product, hiring, vendors, and technical strategy. You keep the wheel; I help you steer the hard calls.
Scoped hands-on consulting
Defined, senior technical work: an architecture review, a prototype, a nasty integration, a project that's stuck. See it in the Wildkind platform migration or AI-native workflows case studies.
Services
Ways I can help
Fractional CTO support
Senior technology leadership without a full-time hire — for founders and scale-ups who need a steady hand.
Technical strategy
Deciding what to build and why, so technical choices support the business rather than slow it down.
Software architecture
Systems that are clear enough to understand, robust enough to rely on, and practical enough to ship.
Product & engineering leadership
Building teams, setting cadence, and staying close to the work to keep delivery honest.
Technical due diligence
Helping VCs and investors evaluate a technology offering — risks, strengths, and what it would take to scale.
Vendor & platform decisions
Cutting through options to the choice that fits the team, the budget, and the next two years.
How I work
A simple shape to the engagement.
01
Understand
I start with the business — what you're trying to do, where the pressure is, and what “good” looks like. Technology serves that, not the other way around.
02
Decide
What to build, what to buy, what to leave alone. Clear trade-offs, written down, so the team and the board can get behind them.
03
Build & lead
I stay close to delivery — shaping architecture, setting cadence, and keeping standards honest. Hands-on when it counts.
04
Hand back
The goal is a team and a system you can run without me. I leave things clearer than I found them.
Who I work with
Different contexts, the same job: better technical decisions.
Founders & startups
You need senior technical judgement before you can justify a full-time CTO. Whether that's a fractional CTO, a part-time technical advisor, or scoped hands-on help with one hard problem, I give you the thinking — and the hands — to move quickly without painting yourself into a corner.
Scale-ups
Growth is straining the architecture, the team, or both. I help you stabilise, prioritise, and build the foundations the next stage needs.
Investors & VCs
You're evaluating a technology offering and want a straight read. I assess risk, strength, and what it would actually take to scale — in plain language.
FAQ
Questions worth answering upfront.
I don't need a fractional CTO — can you just advise us?
Yes. Plenty of teams want to keep day-to-day ownership and just need a senior technical sounding board — for architecture, product calls, hiring, vendors, or the decision nobody in the room wants to own alone. That's a technical advisory engagement: usually a day or two a month, no fractional CTO required.
Can you actually build things too?
Yes — hands-on, by design. I take on scoped technical work where it makes sense: architecture, prototypes, tricky integrations, technical spikes, or getting an important project unstuck. I built the Firebase auth bridge behind Wildkind's platform migration myself and solo-built KitTracker end to end — this isn't strategy that stops at the whiteboard.
Is this just contracting under a different name?
Not quite. Traditional contracting often starts from a defined scope or backlog — though plenty of good contractors do architecture and technical leadership too. What I bring is the judgement of someone who's run engineering teams and shipped products end-to-end: a second CTO-level opinion or a senior builder on a hard problem, on top of the execution.
Let's talk
Get in touch Got something that needs untangling?
A role, a product, a technical decision, or a project that's stuck. Send me a note.