Technical Leadership
Need a CTO who builds, not just advises? We embed with your team.
The Problem
Your organisation is growing and needs senior technical leadership — but you're not ready for a full-time CTO hire, or you need someone who can hit the ground running while you build the right team. You need someone who can architect, code, lead, and ship — not someone who just produces strategy documents.
How We Engage
We embed directly with your team as a hands-on technical leader. We take full ownership of your technical platform — from architecture decisions to production deployment — while building the team and processes around it.
- Architecture & strategy — Technology selection, system design, and technical roadmap aligned to your business goals.
- Hands-on delivery — We write code, review PRs, and ship features alongside your team. Not just oversight — active contribution.
- Team building — Hiring, mentoring, and growing your engineering team. Setting up processes that let developers do their best work.
- Compliance & governance — Platform architecture for ISO 27001, SOC2 Type 2, GDPR, and other compliance frameworks.
- DevOps & infrastructure — Cloud cost optimisation, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and reliability engineering.
Engagement Models
Fractional CTO
Part-time technical leadership for early-stage companies. Strategic direction plus hands-on delivery.
Contract Lead
Full-time embedded engagement for a defined period. Ideal for platform buildouts, migrations, or scaling phases.
Permanent
Open to the right long-term opportunity with an ambitious team building something meaningful.
Experience
Served as CTO for a carbon accounting SaaS platform — leading a team of generalists, achieving ISO 27001 / SOC2 / GDPR compliance, and shipping LLM-powered features with RAG and vector search.
Over 10 years of solution architecture across pharmacy, financial, and not-for-profit sectors, with a track record of taking complex engagements from requirements to production.
A decade of senior development leadership at a major Australian university — coaching teams, leading large-scale projects, and ensuring technology solutions met operational needs.