Fractional Technical Co-Founder, seed to Series A. I build what you need, figure out what you don't, recruit the team, and hand off when the work is done.
Let's figure out what to build firstCase Study
A client came to me ready to build a custom production management system from scratch. Months of development. Significant budget.
After studying their actual workflows and constraints, I pitched them on something different: an ETL pipeline that imported their data into Wrike, a tool that already solved 90% of their problem.
They shipped in weeks instead of months. They loved it. And we avoided the cost overruns that would have sunk the project.
Approach
I think like an engineer who has honed his craft for over a decade. Guardrails, design patterns, thoughtful architecture.
AI is product rocketfuel. It can get you to the moon or to the ground in a hurry. The difference is the engineering underneath it. I build the foundational systems and guardrails that unlock sustainable, high-throughput shipping with AI.
Process
Audit what you have, what you actually need, and what you're about to build that you shouldn't.
The right mix of existing tools, services, and minimal custom code. Every choice documented with reasoning.
I help you find the right engineers, organize them around the architecture we've built, and make sure they can own it without me. A recruiter finds people. I build the system they work inside.
Your team inherits a clean foundation with architecture docs, a decision log, and clear ownership. When I leave, nothing lives only in my head.
Fit
Non-technical founders, seed to Series A.
Teams of 1-20 who need senior technical judgment before they can hire it full-time.
Founders who have been burned by agencies that over-built.
If you have a 40-person engineering org, this is not for you.
About
Fifteen years of full-stack engineering across Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, React, search platforms, and data pipelines. MS in Library and Information Science. The degree most people haven't heard of that trains you to think systematically about new domains, research what's out there, and make sense of problems nobody has organized yet.
My goal is to make the right technical decisions now so that a single senior hire can carry things forward. If I have done my job well, you will not need me after twelve to eighteen months. That is the plan.