Fractional CTO
You have a product and a roadmap but no senior technical owner. I set the architecture, mentor the engineers you have, help hire the ones you need, and make the build-vs-buy calls — without the full-time cost.
Consulting & Advisory
Hire the engineer who's been the founder.
Eight years across healthcare, mobile, IoT, and AI — plus a co-founder seat, a ₹60L raise, and a bootstrapped studio that builds for founders who can't afford to get the stack wrong. I take a small number of engagements where a team needs someone who can architect the solution, lead the build, and navigate ambiguity without hand-holding.
AI systems that survive production
Demos are easy; the 3am page is not. I build LLM and agent systems with observability, evals, and failure modes designed in from day one — the difference between a demo and a feature your users rely on.
MVP architecture for bootstrapped runway
The wrong stack burns months quietly. I choose technology priced against your runway, and build the version of your idea that can prove itself fastest — because runway is the product.
Healthcare-grade mobile
HIPAA-aware mobile architecture from someone who ships inside those constraints every day at one of the largest digital health platforms in the US.
Who I work with
- Bootstrapped founders who need their first real architecture
- Seed-to-Series-A startups without a senior technical owner
- Product teams that need embedded senior engineering, fast
How an engagement works
- Project-based A scoped build with a defined outcome and a deadline.
- Advisory retainer Ongoing architecture, hiring, and roadmap guidance.
- Fractional CTO Embedded technical leadership, part-time, for as long as it takes.
I take 2–3 engagements at a time, alongside a full-time role. If the problem is interesting, the queue moves.