Your startup doesn't need to hire more "rockstar" engineers. It needs an experienced engineering leader to stabilize your platform, mentor your team, and build a technical foundation that supports growth. Stop the constant flow of technical tickets or runaway cloud bills.

Firefighting Predictable delivery
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If R&D feels chaotic, growth slows down.

Chaos isn't just technical. It's missed revenue, churn risk, and team burnout.

AI made you faster. Now it's time to get serious.

AI lets teams ship a lot more, but when you hit traction, the bottlenecks shift: incidents, regressions, unclear ownership, and rising infrastructure costs. My job is to keep the speed and add the discipline that makes it safe to scale.

Vibe coding is great for finding product-market fit. The mistake is leaving the prototype in charge of production.

Production-hardening checklist

Craftsmanship = predictable speed

In an industry obsessed with moving fast and breaking things, I optimize for deliberate execution that keeps shipping fast next quarter not just this week.

Code is a liability

Every line is a maintenance promise. I reduce complexity to increase velocity.

Calm beats chaos

High output comes from safety rails: CI, tests, observability, clear ownership.

Mentorship multiplies

I level up engineers through standards, reviews, pairing, and clear decision docs.

Stability is a feature

Reliability isn't luck. It's process (SLOs, alert hygiene, RCA, prevention).

Boring software is a competitive advantage.

Engagement models

Fractional CTO / Interim Head of Engineering

Best for: Series A/B startups needing immediate leadership and delivery control.

  • Delivery system: planning + execution cadence, ownership map, decision logs
  • Reliability program: SLOs, monitoring, incident response, RCA loop
  • Architecture direction: constraints, guardrails, migration sequencing

fewer incidents, faster releases, less thrash.

Staff+ Individual Contributor

Best for: Scale-ups needing high-leverage technical execution on critical systems.

  • Deep technical projects with measurable outcomes (reliability, latency, cost)
  • Refactors/migrations with safety rails and rollout discipline
  • Mentorship via PR standards, pairing, docs

Team reset / Player-coach leadership

Best for: Teams stuck in low-trust, high-friction delivery patterns.

  • Practical engineering standards (reviews, testing strategy, on-call expectations)
  • "Show-don't-tell" coaching inside real work
  • Lightweight operating system for engineering

Prototype → Production Hardening

Best for: Startups that shipped fast (often with AI) and are now seeing cracks: regressions, incidents, performance issues, rising cloud spend.

  • Reliability & scale assessment (codebase + infra + ops)
  • Quality gates in CI (format/lint/type + tests + smoke e2e)
  • Production readiness baseline: SLOs, dashboards, alert rules
  • Cost & performance baseline: budgets, top cost drivers, quick wins
  • A hardening roadmap with milestones and measurable targets

safer deploys, fewer regressions, predictable shipping, ability to scale users without linear cost growth.

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How it works

  1. Intro call (30 min): align on symptoms, constraints, desired outcomes
  2. Rapid assessment (1–2 weeks): interviews + repo/infrastructure review + metrics baseline
  3. Execution plan: prioritized roadmap, risks, sequence, success measures
  4. Delivery + enablement: implement + train + handoff playbooks

What I measure

Track record

~99.9% uptime for 150k+ active users in production
Multi-region / data residency across EU + US
Scaled teams 6 → 22 introduced structure without bureaucracy
ISO 27001 & 27017 led implementation end to end
Reduced complexity large LOC reductions while improving outcomes
Monitoring & SLOs observability, alerting, RCA discipline

Logistics

You should work with me if…

Trigger symptoms

Not a fit if…

I'm not the cheapest engineer you can hire. I'm the one you hire when you can't afford to get it wrong again.

Let's build something solid.

Stop firefighting. Start shipping with confidence. Let's talk about what predictable delivery looks like for your team.

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