Fractional CTO leadership for fast-growing SaaS, fintech and marketplace companies in the UK and US, plus the platform modernization, AI, and compliance work that has to hold up under investor and enterprise due diligence. Backed by 19 years at CyberSource, Visa and Tink.
Many fast-growing companies have outgrown ad hoc technical decision-making but aren't ready for a full-time executive hire. We step in as your embedded technical leader, owning architecture direction, engineering hiring, and vendor decisions, and representing the technical story to your board and investors. This is an ongoing relationship sized to your team and stage, drawing on 19 years of platform and infrastructure leadership at CyberSource, Visa and Tink.
You probably don't need a full rebuild. What you need is a clear plan to move off the systems that got shipped fast in the early days onto a platform that can carry your next stage of scale, and the due diligence that comes with it. We prioritize the changes that cut cost and risk fastest, sizing infrastructure to your actual traffic and runway rather than over-engineering for a scale you're not at yet. At Tink, that same discipline took roughly 35% out of a single vendor contract.
Plenty of companies want to put AI to work but don't want sensitive customer data leaving the building, or an unpredictable per-token bill that scales with usage. We start by telling you honestly where AI earns its place and where it doesn't, then deploy local and private-cloud models that fit your runway and compliance requirements, from initial model selection through production rollout. At Tink, we led an AI-driven engineering transformation to 100% GenAI adoption in nine months.
When a fast-growing company acquires another team or product, the technology side is often the part nobody has time to plan properly. We have run this from the inside, as executive sponsor for $2B+ of technology integration across six acquisitions at Visa. We help founders and leadership teams combine engineering teams, tools, and codebases quickly and cleanly, without disrupting the product your customers and your investors are watching.
A new funding round, a security review, or your first enterprise customer can suddenly require SOC 2, PCI-DSS, or GDPR readiness you haven't built yet. We help you close the highest-risk gaps first, put the right policies and evidence in place, and respond confidently to investor and customer security questionnaires, without hiring a full-time security team. We come at this from a career inside payments businesses where PCI-DSS and regulatory scrutiny were permanent conditions, not projects.
You don't need an enterprise SRE org to stop finding out about outages from your customers. We help you move from reactive firefighting to proactive monitoring, starting with the basics that matter most and scaling up reliability practices as your team and traffic grow. At Tink, we took availability from 99.0% to 99.99% on the authorization and identity platform behind its Open Banking product.
Not ready for an open-ended engagement? These answer one specific question on a fixed timeline, for a fixed fee.
Where you stand against SOC 2, PCI-DSS, or GDPR/UK-GDPR, before your auditor or an investor's diligence team tells you. We assess access control, credential management, data handling, and vendor/subprocessor exposure, then rank the findings fix-now / fix-before-audit / fix-eventually, with a remediation estimate for each.
A ranked, fixed-price priority list for a platform that's starting to show scale strain, before committing to a full modernization engagement. We review your architecture and infrastructure, talk to a few of your stakeholders, and hand back a cloud cost snapshot alongside the roadmap.
Start with fifteen minutes to talk through where your platform is heading and whether there's something here worth doing. No pitch deck.