Services
I work with founders and investors as a fractional CTO, technical advisor and due-diligence lead — for deep-tech, scientific, simulation and high-performance software. Engagements range from a one-off technical read to owning your architecture end to end.
Senior technical leadership on a part-time retainer, for a startup not ready for a full-time CTO: setting technical direction and standards, owning the architecture, input on hiring and tooling, and being the technical voice to your board and investors.
A development that's stalled, or a system whose original author has gone. I reconstruct what it really is and does by inference and experiment, establish the true scope with evidence, then restructure it into a foundation you can build on.
An independent, plain read for investors and boards: is the technology real, the architecture sound, and the plan capable of reaching its objective? The risks named clearly — before the cheque, or the pivot.
Deciding what to build and how, before commitment — the shape of the system, the independent responsibilities within it, and the uncertain parts proven first, so the real risk is behind you rather than ahead.
When something is orders of magnitude too slow, the bottleneck is usually the model, not the code. I re-pose the problem — geometry, numerical methods, the right algorithm — to reach speeds that tuning the implementation never will.
When it needs building, not just advising: production C++, embedded firmware and the high-performance software to go with it — working alongside your own engineers.
Capabilities
How we engage
Ongoing senior technical leadership — a day or two a week — as your fractional CTO, for as long as you need it.
A defined piece of work — a recovery, an architecture, a stubborn performance problem — delivered against clear outcomes.
A fast, independent read for an investment or board decision, with the technical risks named plainly.