Fractional CTO, solutions architect, and delivery leader with over 25 years of experience across regulated industries. I help organisations make sound technical decisions and turn them into working software.
Part-time technical leadership for startups and scale-ups. Strategic direction, engineering team mentorship, architecture decisions, and delivery oversight without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Typically 10–20 hours per week. I work alongside your existing team, not above them.
Fixed-price engagements producing comprehensive architecture documents, technology stack recommendations, options analysis, implementation roadmaps, and team structure guidance.
Typically delivered over 2–3 weeks. You receive a document your team can build from and your investors can understand.
Modern data platform design, pipeline architecture, and transformation strategy. From legacy system assessment through to production data infrastructure.
Covering cloud data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, data governance, and analytics enablement.
Independent assessment of technical platforms, vendor capabilities, and development proposals. Factual analysis to support procurement, investment, or partnership decisions.
Structured evaluation frameworks. Evidence-based. No opinion without substantiation.
Documents that engineering teams build from. Not slide decks. Not high-level hand-waving.
Concrete technology stack recommendations, system design, database schemas, API contracts, implementation approaches, and phased roadmaps. Architecture engagements are typically fixed-price, delivered over two to three weeks. You know the cost upfront, and you receive a document that removes ambiguity from the build phase.
For fractional CTO work, I focus on creating the conditions for your team to succeed rather than imposing solutions from outside. Coaching, unblocking, and steering quietly. The goal is that the team owns the outcome, not the consultant.
Technical due diligence, vendor evaluations, and options analysis grounded in facts. I present the trade-offs clearly and leave the decision-making authority with you. No opinion without substantiation.
Industries
Challenge
A European energy marketplace needed a complete software architecture and delivery plan to replace fragmented manual processes with a unified digital platform. The system required multi-tenant architecture, regulatory compliance workflows, and integration with national energy infrastructure APIs.
Delivered
Comprehensive architecture and delivery plan covering technology stack selection, system design, database schema, API contracts, phased implementation roadmap, and team structure recommendations. Delivered as a fixed-price engagement over three weeks.
Outcome
Client used the architecture document to secure development funding and begin implementation with confidence in the technical direction.
Challenge
A wine industry startup needed to move from concept to funded product. The founder had domain expertise but required a technical co-pilot to define the architecture, validate feasibility, and produce documentation suitable for investor conversations and developer procurement.
Delivered
Architecture and roadmap pack including component architecture, cost modelling, phased delivery plan, and an RFQ framework for selecting development partners. Ongoing fractional CTO support through vendor evaluation and technical oversight.
Outcome
Founder used the deliverables to structure vendor conversations, secure development quotes, and proceed to Phase 0 build with a clear technical direction.
Challenge
A technology company building AI automation products needed detailed architecture specifications for a multi-tenant SaaS gateway. The platform required orchestration of multiple AI services, usage-based billing, and enterprise-grade security across several product lines.
Delivered
Detailed architecture documentation including options analysis, C4 diagrams, database schemas, integration patterns, and implementation approach. Structured as a decision-ready document enabling the client’s leadership to choose between architectural options with full visibility of trade-offs.
Outcome
Architecture specifications adopted as the foundation for the product development roadmap.
Whether you need architecture for a new build, fractional CTO support, or an independent technical assessment, I am happy to have an initial conversation at no cost.
