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Senior technology leadership, without a full-time hire.

We embed as your CTO or CIO — owning architecture, roadmap, hiring, vendor strategy, and the conversations your board needs to hear — at the fraction of a full-time executive your stage actually requires.

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engagement · at a glance
Architecture review
12 services · 3 critical risks flagged
Roadmap & budget
Q3 plan · $1.4M infra forecast
Hiring plan
2 senior · 1 staff · scorecards set
Board reporting
monthly · risk · spend · velocity
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FRACTIONAL CTO

Senior technical leadership, plugged into your org

Scroll to see how a fractional CTO slots into your reporting line — and what changes in the first 90 days.

CLIENT
Your Company
ROLE
CTO / CIO
AVAGO
Fractional CTO
Engineering
Set architecture standards & mentor leads
Product
Align the roadmap with technical reality
Vendors
Vet, select & negotiate technical partners
Board
Translate technical risk into strategy
ENGAGEMENT PHASES
01
Architecture review
02
Roadmap & hiring
03
Operations
04
Strategic advisory
Weeks 0–2
Weeks 2–6
Weeks 6–12
Ongoing
What we do

Executive technology leadership, scoped to your stage.

A fractional CTO or CIO gives you the judgment of a senior technology executive — architecture decisions, roadmap, hiring, vendor strategy, and board communication — without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.

We embed inside your team and own the technical decisions that matter, then hand off a stronger organization. The model fits founders between technical leaders, companies preparing to raise or sell, and teams that have outgrown their architecture.

20+ yrs
Senior leadership depth per engagement
< 2 wks
From first call to embedded and contributing
Board-ready
Monthly reporting on risk, spend & velocity
What we deliver

What a fractional technology executive owns.

Technology strategy & roadmap

A sequenced plan tied to business goals, budgets, and trade-offs — not a wish list of projects.

Roadmap · Budget · Trade-offs

Architecture & due diligence

Independent review of your systems, scaling risks, and tech debt — for you or for an investor.

Review · Risk · Scalability

Engineering org & hiring

Org design, scorecards, interview loops, and senior hires that fit your stage.

Org design · Hiring · Mentoring

Vendor & cloud cost strategy

Rationalize tooling and cloud spend with forecasting and accountability per team.

FinOps · Vendors · Forecasts

Security & compliance posture

Get audit-ready: controls, policy, and a remediation plan mapped to SOC 2 or FedRAMP.

SOC 2 · Policy · Controls

Board & investor reporting

Clear monthly reporting on risk, spend, security, and delivery velocity leadership can act on.

Reporting · KPIs · Velocity
Problems we solve

Signs it’s time to bring us in.

“Your roadmap is a backlog, not a strategy.”
We translate business goals into a sequenced technical plan with budgets and trade-offs the board can follow.
“You’re scaling the team faster than the architecture.”
We fix the foundations — services, data model, deploy pipeline — before headcount makes them permanent.
“Cloud spend climbs and no one owns it.”
We put a FinOps practice in place: tagging, forecasts, and accountability per team.
“The board asks technical questions you can’t answer.”
We produce clear monthly reporting on risk, spend, security, and delivery velocity.
How we engage

From assessment to a self-sufficient team.

01

Assess

We review your architecture, team, spend, and risks in the first two weeks.

02

Prioritize

We turn findings into a sequenced plan with clear business trade-offs.

03

Embed & execute

We work inside your team — decisions, hiring, vendor calls, and delivery.

04

Transition

We document and hand off so your organization is stronger without us.

Example engagements

Recent work, lightly anonymized.

Series B SaaS

Re-platformed before scaling the team

Stabilized the architecture and deploy pipeline, then designed the hiring plan that doubled engineering — without doubling chaos.

Fintech

Passed acquisition due diligence

Produced the architecture, security, and tech-debt assessment that got a fintech through buyer due diligence cleanly.

Nonprofit

Cut vendor spend 40%

Replaced three overlapping SaaS vendors and renegotiated cloud commitments, freeing budget for product work.

Why Avago

Executive depth, on the terms your stage needs.

A practitioner, not a slide deck

The person who scopes your work is the person who does it. No bait-and-switch staffing, no juniors learning on your time.

Senior by default

Every engagement is led by an engineer who has run production systems for 15+ years — across software, infrastructure, and operations.

We leave you self-sufficient

We document, train your team, and hand off cleanly. Success is measured by how little you need us afterward.

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