Most technology decisions are framed wrong before they're answered.
For founders, CTOs and executive teams facing the cloud, AI and architecture bets you can't easily undo — I help you reframe the decision, then make the call.
Selective engagements where deep technical judgment changes the outcome.
I work with a small number of clients at a time, scoped around the decision that matters — not billable hours. And, unlike advisors who stop at the deck, I can stay to help carry the strategy into delivery.
Fractional & Interim CTO
Executive technology leadership without a full-time hire — for startups, scale-ups and mid-market companies in transition.
- Technology vision and roadmap
- Engineering org design and hiring
- Board and investor communication
- Hands-on architecture when the team needs it
Architecture Review
A focused diagnosis of where you are, where you should be, and the few moves that compound. Cloud, software architecture, distributed systems.
- Current-state assessment and risk map
- Target architecture and migration path
- Cost, performance and reliability tradeoffs
- Optional execution support post-review
AI Strategy Sprint
A short, intensive engagement to identify where AI actually creates value — and how to ship it without burning a year on POCs.
- Applied AI opportunity mapping
- Build vs. buy and vendor strategy
- LLM and agentic system architecture
- Implementation oversight if needed
Advisory Retainer
Ongoing access to strategic technology judgment. A standing call cadence, async input on hard calls, and a second pair of eyes on the decisions that matter.
- Monthly cadence and async access
- Decision support on hard tradeoffs
- Architecture and hiring sounding board
- Stakeholder and board navigation
In the age of AI, judgment is the bottleneck.
AI can generate any answer in seconds. That makes the answer cheap — and the question expensive. The bottleneck has moved upstream: knowing which problem to solve, which tradeoffs are real, and where a decision will compound. That's a judgment problem, not a tooling problem. Generalists who move fluently between architecture, product, strategy and operations are the ones best placed to make those calls — because the right answer rarely lives inside a single domain.
- Fluent across architecture, product, strategy and org design.
- Two decades of pattern recognition across enterprise, consulting and startups.
- Strong opinions on what to do next; weak attachment to any specific stack or vendor.
How I work.
Most engagements follow the same rhythm — sharp listening before strong opinions.
Diagnose
Context first. I spend time with founders, engineers and stakeholders to understand the real problem — not just the symptoms in the brief.
Reframe
Most decisions are framed wrong before they're answered. I rewrite them in terms that make tradeoffs visible and the few choices that actually matter obvious.
Commit
Concrete recommendations and a clear path forward — written down, defensible, tied to your business reality. Then execution support when you need it.
Companies and clients.
Notes on technology, architecture and strategy.
Essays on the decisions that compound — cloud, AI, architecture and the seams between them.
Let's talk.
The fastest way to reach me is by email. If there's a fit, we'll set up a 30-minute intro call.
Location
Madrid, Spain — working internationally
GitHub
Have a decision to make? Let's talk.
A 30-minute intro call, no obligation, to see if there's a fit.
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