Fractional CTO
Executive technical leadership and architectural oversight for high-growth founders.
Limited to 2 active founders at a time to ensure dedicated, high-impact architectural oversight and immediate responsiveness.
Hiring a full-time CTO before Product-Market Fit costs $300k-$400k/year in equity and salary—while relying solely on junior developers or offshore agencies leads to wasted capital and fragile software. As your Fractional CTO, I partner with founders to make high-conviction architectural decisions, lead technical diligence, vet agencies and senior hires, and instill engineering excellence without executive bloat.
When You Need a Fractional CTO
- You are a non-technical or solo founder managing freelance engineers or agencies with zero visibility into code quality.
- You are preparing for a Seed or Series A round and need your data room, system architecture, and IP security vetted for technical diligence.
- Your team is debating complex architectural choices (e.g. monolith vs microservices, cloud vendor lock-in) and needs decisive leadership.
- You need to establish rigorous hiring benchmarks, conduct high-standard technical interviews, and lead code review governance.
Execution Architecture
Architecture Diligence & Tech Audit
A comprehensive review of your existing cloud infrastructure, code repositories, security posture, and monthly burn rate to identify immediate technical liabilities.
Strategic Technical Roadmap
Formulating a concrete 6-12 month engineering roadmap directly tied to business KPIs, revenue goals, and fundraising milestones.
Weekly Governance & Code Review
Leading weekly technical standups, reviewing pull requests for critical systems, mentoring your engineering team, and unblocking hard technical hurdles.
Hiring Oversight & Diligence Defense
Vetting candidate resumes, running technical interviews for senior hires, and directly defending your architecture during investor technical diligence.
Core Technical Stack & Tooling
Investment & Engagement Terms
Retainer packages start at $8,000/month for active strategic advisory (weekly architectural reviews, roadmap formulation, hiring screens) to $15,000/month for high-touch technical co-leadership and hands-on governance.
Trusted Across Critical Deployments
Verified client testimonials from founders and engineering directors who relied on Shubham's systems.
"Shubham stepped in when our internal team was bottlenecked. He re-architected our high-concurrency ingestion pipeline in three weeks and handed over production-ready software with flawless documentation."
Marcus Vance
Chief Technology Officer • Apex Cloud Systems (San Francisco)
"شبھم کے ساتھ کام کرنے کا تجربہ بے مثال رہا۔ انہوں نے ہمارے اسکیل ایبلٹی کے پیچیدہ مسائل کو انتہائی مہارت اور رفتار سے حل کیا، اور پورا سسٹم وقت سے پہلے مکمل کیا۔"
Tariq Mehmood
Chief Technology Officer • FinStack Systems
"Shubham a repensé notre architecture distribuée en quelques semaines. Sa capacité à transformer des exigences système complexes en code haute performance est exceptionnelle."
Alexandre Mercier
Chief Technology Officer • Veloce Cloud Paris
You own the system.
The code. The infra. The data.
Software should not become valuable enough to matter and then be impossible for the client to own or operate.
Everything I build is 100% client-owned intellectual property from day one. You own the code, the accounts, the infrastructure, and the data. No vendor lock-in.
What belongs to you in full:
- 01Source code & Complete Git Repositories
- 02Apple, Google & Enterprise Developer Accounts
- 03Cloud Infrastructure, VPCs & Production Databases
- 04Figma Design Files, Assets & Documentation
- 05CI/CD Deployment Pipelines & Signing Keys