I help founders get their tech on track.
“Fantastic at building self-sufficient teams and giving them what they need.” – Tadas T
“If you’re looking for someone to help build a great team, or you need someone experienced to help develop a sound tech strategy, I would thoroughly recommend Chris.” – Roisi P
“Chris has clearly learned a lot about the world of being a delivery-focused CTO” – Ian O
You must move fast to survive. But the tech is messy, the product is fuzzy, and everything is feels like it is on fire.
That’s where I come in. As a fellow founder, I know how it feels to have so much to fix you don’t know where to begin, and how you can feel fantastic one day and terrified the next.
I can help you scale without burning cash, build tech teams that ship daily, and make product decisions that don’t backfire.
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Some of the reasons we should talk
- Your tech costs are out of control
- Process overhead is killing productivity
- You are not confident in your architecture
- Your vibe-coded prototype is falling apart
- Development speed has slowed to a crawl
- You are not sure if you have product/market fit
- Your AI/LLM projects are not getting to production
- You are struggling to hire and retain great engineers
- Your tech team culture is heading in the wrong direction
- The CEO and technical leaders aren’t aligned on priorities
- Technical strategy feels disconnected from business goals
- Your tech team is building too much or spending too much doing it
What people say about me
“Chris is very experienced both in the technical side of setting up a well functioning tech team, but also in the business side, possessing a keen eye for strategy and a good sense for what will and will not work in any given environment. If you’re a startup looking for someone to help build a great team, or you need someone experienced to help develop a sound tech strategy, I would thoroughly recommend Chris.”
“Chris has clearly learned a *lot* about the world of being a delivery-focused CTO, he has a very clear understanding of the need for pragmatic planning, knowledge sharing, team up-skilling and the paying down of technical debt… I hope to continue to learn from Chris’ experience.”
“Chris is fantastic at building self-sufficient teams and giving them what they need to deliver impactful product changes and experiments. He provides a lot of freedom while setting clear goals, which creates highly productive teams in early-stage startups. At the same time, he’s an empathetic leader who always keeps a pulse on team morale. This is an extremely punchy combo.”
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Read moreThe Job Is Not To Build
Startup CTOs or founding developers are the first technical people in the business. It is natural to think your job is to write code and build software. This is backwards.
Your first job is not to build software. Your role is to use your technical expertise to help the startup figure out fast if you have a valid solution to a compelling problem, and then a valid product for a big enough market.
You might do this through building software, but you might not need to.
Here is a story of how I did this wrong, and how you can do it right.
Read moreThe First Thing A Startup CTO Must Do
Perhaps you are a technical co-founder who has managed to raise funding and you have been catapulted into the startup life. Perhaps you have just been brought in to handle the startup’s tech after the first round came in.
As the CTO, or the most senior technology person in the company, there are so many calls on your attention at this stage.
There is plenty of interesting new tech to build. There are potential customers to speak to (hopefully). There are investors to keep updated, who will want to know when the company is going to grow. There are people to hire. It can feel like you are drowning in possibility.
In the midst of all of that, we neglect this one thing at our peril.
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