Interim or fractional CTO for founders who need to ship something real — or rescue something stuck. I take prototypes to production, rebuild the team and architecture underneath, and tell you straight what's salvageable. I still write the code — from Solidity to low-level C. AI where it pays off, not as hype; sharpest in regulated fintech and crypto.
One operator — from a single honest read of where you stand, to stepping in and owning the tech until it's solid.
The CTO left, the build stalled, or engineering and leadership stopped understanding each other. I take over the tech, calm the room, and get delivery moving again.
Turn a prototype — often vibe-coded — into a product that survives real users and a security audit. Architecture, security, compliance, scale, and the team to carry it.
A senior read on what's broken and why — product, architecture, team, risk. Peer-level sparring with real decisions — not coaching.
I can talk architecture with your engineers and runway with your investors — in the same call, and mean both.
Two master's sit behind that: Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong (deep-learning thesis), and International Business at KU Leuven. I've shipped IoT hardware into retail, written a production blockchain solo, and built a B2B sales operation in China from the ground up. So I read technical risk and business constraint in the same breath — and tell founders the truth on both.
AI by training, not by trend. The deep-learning background is real ML work, not prompts — so I build AI into delivery and product where it earns its place, and say so when it doesn't.
A platform, building since 2013, that lets enterprises issue their own branded tokens for loyalty and payments. I came in as CTO and ran a full cold start: built a new engineering team, absorbed the handover from the former CTO and external devs, and re-laid the architecture — on infrastructure where security and compliance can't be afterthoughts. Leadership first, but I earn the room on the code.
A plant-care brand built from nothing — sensors, firmware, app, cloud, and the team behind them — to a product shipping on retail shelves.
Solidity smart contracts, World ID Sybil-resistance, a live mini-app, a real-world pilot — contracts, frontend and infrastructure, all built by one person.
A full year on financial inclusion, embedded across New York, San Francisco, Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Near full-time, when the tech is the bottleneck. I step in, unblock the core problem, rebuild or stabilize the team, and hand back something solid.
An ongoing retainer — a senior CTO who speaks both engineering and the boardroom, and makes the call instead of just reporting it.
Hybrid — on-site sprints, remote in between · Berlin
30 minutes, no pitch. Tell me what's stuck — tech, team, or compliance — and I'll tell you straight what I'd do, and whether I'm the right person to do it.
30 min · remote · no obligation