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.
Selected essays and pieces. The full archive lives on GitHub.
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.
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