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Fractional engineering leadership

Your engineering team is adopting AI.

But is AI making your company stronger or just faster at the wrong things?

I get into the technical detail and untangle it: which AI bets are working, which are noise, and what each one means for your business and your people. What comes back are clearer, actionable, adoptable workflows, not more complexity.

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Common scenarios

Does this sound like you?

01
The AI-first mandate

Your CEO has declared the company AI-first. Your engineering organization is moving, but you can't tell whether it's moving in the right direction.

02
The buried CTO

You're a CTO getting pulled into the weeds on every problem. The strategic work that should fill your week, the next year, the next hire, the next architectural call, keeps getting bumped.

03
The non-engineer founder

You're a non-engineer founder. You shipped a product on AI tools, you have real users, and you don't know how to assess whether what you built will hold up.

04
Runaway AI spend

Your AI spend is climbing, and you can't tell which of it is moving the business forward and which is just expensive churn.

05
Managers in the deep end

Your engineering managers are talented, but they haven't led through this kind of ambiguity before. You need them driving the company through it, not waiting for it to resolve.

What I do

Clarify. Disentangle. Execute.

01 · Clarify

I clarify what's happening in the weeds. That can mean identifying technical decisions that nobody realized had business implications, or getting crucial conversations to where they should have started in the first place.

02 · Disentangle

I look at it from the technical, business, and people angles, and disentangle the actual problem from the noise around it.

03 · Execute

I don't hand you a recommendation and leave. I get the work done, or I make your team capable of doing it without me, depending on which is right for the situation.

What I bring

I've spent +15 years building and leading inside high-growth companies. I started as a founding engineer at a bootstrapped startup and grew into a senior director leading 35-plus engineers. I've launched products from zero to market, turned around platforms that were losing money, and developed managers who became leaders.

The reason executives bring me into hard moments is that I can hold the entire situation: the technical work, the business case, and the human dynamics on the team. Most do one well and lose the other two.

Co-inventor, AI health coaching platform patent  ·  Stanford BS in Symbolic Systems

Jared Cordova
$2.3M+
Annual cost savings through platform modernization
90%
Partner retention through data platform migration
50%
Faster incident resolution through modernized tooling
Millions
Users supported through infrastructure scaling
2
Products built and launched from zero to market
How this shows up

Featured engagement

Case study

DayTag, a co-parenting platform built with a non-engineer founder.

Situation
The founder of DayTag had a clear product vision and no in-house engineering. She had shipped a working prototype on AI tools and was facing real users, a feature roadmap, and questions she didn't know how to answer about reliability, security, and scale.
Work
I came in as the technical expert of a three person venture. I built and shipped the production version of the application on Lovable and Supabase, sized and prioritized features against feasibility, and translated the technical posture of the platform into language the founders could use with prospective beta users and investors.
Outcome
The product is live, in user testing, and on track for submission. The founder has a written technical roadmap she can carry into a fundraising conversation and a clear sense of which decisions she needs to make and which she can hand to me.

Tell me what's not working. I'll help you build a plan forward.

Book an intro call

30 minutes. No charge. No pitch.