FRACTIONAL CTO ·
ST. LOUIS + REMOTE
30 years of engineering leadership — teams of 6 to 40, across healthcare, fintech, insurance, and logistics.
Two weeks. Written findings.
No obligation.
Who calls me
Founders with 5 to 30 engineers who have outgrown their first developer.
01 · What’s broken
01
The founder is making architecture calls between sales calls. Decisions get deferred, then made twice.
02
Good developers, no process. No roadmap anyone in the room actually believes in.Good developers, no process, no roadmap they believe in.
03
Due diligence, security posture, a scaling story that holds up past the next round.Diligence, security posture, a scaling story that holds.
02 · The record
Not a stack list. Increasing scope, in industries where a wrong architecture decision is a regulatory problem rather than a refactor.
40
developers led across two continents
4
regulated industries — SOX, GDPR, HIPAA-adjacent
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OUTCOME METRIC
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OUTCOME METRIC
Platform Architect
FIS
Architected the Virtus Core Services Platform and led 40 developers across teams in India — the delivery model, the review discipline, and the architecture were all mine to own.Architected the Virtus Core Services Platform; led 40 developers across India.
Engineering Manager
Degreed
Ran Core Services and designed the GDPR single-tenant model — the answer to the data-residency question that was blocking enterprise deals.Core Services, plus the GDPR single-tenant model that unblocked enterprise deals.
Technical Architect
RehabCare
Technical architect for a national provider network, owning SOX compliance across the application estate and the audit conversations that came with it.Owned SOX compliance across the application estate — and the audits.
Director of IT
Profiles / M3
The whole function reporting in: infrastructure, applications, vendors, and the budget that paid for all three.Infrastructure, applications, vendors, and the budget for all three.
Now
Your engineering org
Same job, fewer days a month. Start with the assessment.
03 · How I work
04 · Engagements
A day is up to seven hours of delivered work. Allotments are monthly., so a heavy week borrows from a light one.
Starting point
4 days/mo
Standing time with your engineers, ownership of the plan, and a technical voice in the decisions that matter — roadmap, hiring, architecture, the investor conversations.Standing time with your engineers and ownership of the plan.
per month
Above four days there is no menu. Some engagements settle a little higher; some run close to full-time through a rebuild, a migration, or a diligence window. The shape follows the work rather than a package, so anything beyond the starting point is scoped with you.
Retainers begin with a three-month commitment and continue month to month after that. Rates above the starting point are confirmed in writing before any work begins.
Start here · Two weeks
A fixed-fee technical assessment. You get a written answer about your engineering organization whether or not we work together afterward.
$5,000 Fixed fee
Credited toward your first month if we continue.
05 · Contact
I answer personally, usually the same day. If I’m not the right fit I’ll say so, and where I’d point you instead.