Consulting
Fractional CTO, architectural oversight, AI integration and corporate modernization — informed by years at the C-level building and securing platforms at scale.
Most technology problems that reach an executive aren't technology problems by the time they arrive. They're a decision nobody has enough context to make, or an architecture that quietly stopped matching the business two years ago.
That's the work: turning those back into decisions someone can actually take.
What that looks like
- Fractional CTO — the technical voice in the room for organizations that need the judgement but not a full-time executive salary
- Architectural oversight — reviewing what's being built before it becomes expensive, and saying plainly when a direction won't hold
- AI integration — where it genuinely earns its place, and, more usefully, where it doesn't. Built by someone shipping production LLM systems rather than describing them.
- Corporate modernization — moving off the thing everyone is afraid to touch, without a rewrite that never lands
- Security posture — from the CISO side of the table: what your actual exposure is, and which of it is worth money to fix
Background
CTO and CISO roles at multi-billion revenue companies, building and securing platforms at scale — and still writing and shipping software today, which is rarer at this level than it should be.
The products on this site are the evidence. They're built, shipped and maintained by the same person who'd be advising you, which means architectural advice here comes with the calluses of having to live in the result.
How engagements usually start
A conversation about what's actually going wrong, which is often not the thing that prompted the call. From there it's typically a short scoped review, a standing fractional arrangement, or a specific build.
Based in New Westminster, BC — working with organizations across Greater Vancouver and remotely.