Time-Based IT Consulting
Senior technical guidance for specific projects, audits, or decisions — billed by time, no retainer required.
What's included
- → Fractional CTO, a part-time CTO-level leadership for companies without a permanent technical executive: roadmap ownership, hiring decisions, board and investor communication, and team direction/reorganization
- → Architecture reviews and design sessions
- → Cloud migration planning and execution support
- → Kubernetes and container platform rollouts
- → Kubernetes controller developments
- → Infrastructure-as-code management and audits (Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, swamp)
- → Technology strategy and vendor selection
- → Incident post-mortems and reliability reviews
Who it's for
Engineering teams that face a hard infrastructure decision and need an experienced outside perspective. Startups preparing for their first production deployment. Scale-ups untangling years of accumulated technical debt. CTOs evaluating a platform migration. CEO needing a technology advisory. Companies between CTOs or too early to justify a full-time hire: a Fractional CTO engagement bridges that gap without the full-time commitment.
If the problem is bounded and you know roughly how much time you need, time-and-materials is the right model.
How to engage
Send a short description of your challenge: scope, timeline, and the decision you're trying to make. We will reply within two business days with an estimate and a proposed approach.
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