Accepting 2 new engagements for Q1 2027
I help CEOs, CIOs and investors turn complex technology estates into clear, executable architecture — as a fractional CTO, enterprise architect and independent advisor.
Sound familiar?
Most engagements start with one of these. All of them are solvable — with the right architecture, the right sequence, and someone accountable for both.
Budgets, vendors and cloud bills grow every year, but nobody can draw a straight line from that spend to revenue, margin or risk.
Years of acquisitions and point solutions have left you with two of everything and no single source of truth.
The decisions are executive-level — architecture, hiring, vendors, board updates — but the role doesn’t justify a permanent hire yet.
And you want those answers to come from someone independent, who has done it before and has nothing to sell.
Services
From a two-week due diligence sprint to an 18-month fractional CTO engagement — each one designed around outcomes, not hours.
Executive-level ownership of technology strategy, team and delivery for companies that need a CTO’s judgment two to eight days a month.
Pragmatic, business-led architecture: capability maps, target state and a sequenced roadmap that teams can actually execute.
A practical AI strategy: where AI creates value in your business, the architecture and guardrails to deliver it, and a portfolio of use cases with ROI.
Evidence-based cloud strategy and cost optimization that cuts run cost, improves reliability and frees teams to build what differentiates you.
Fast, candid technology and team assessment for investors and acquirers, with risks quantified and a 100-day value-creation plan.
Track record
Every engagement starts with a measurable baseline and ends with results the CFO can verify.
How engagements work
Every engagement follows the same simple path, whether it lasts two weeks or eighteen months.
30 min · free
We discuss your goals, constraints and whether I’m the right fit.
1–3 weeks
Interviews, system and data review, and an honest baseline.
1–2 weeks
Options, trade-offs and a sequenced, costed plan your board can back.
Ongoing
Hands-on leadership until the plan is delivered — or handed over.
Client perspective
Vadim gave our board a technology strategy it could actually understand and our engineers a roadmap they believed in. Within two quarters we shipped faster with a smaller cloud bill.
The due diligence report was the clearest we have received. It surfaced two material risks the other advisors missed and gave us a 100-day plan we used verbatim.
As a fractional CTO he did in six months what we had failed to do in two years: one platform, one architecture, and a team that owns it.
Insights
Five signals that you have outgrown ad-hoc technical leadership, and three that you haven't yet.
How a single page can align a leadership team on where to invest, consolidate and retire.
What investors miss when they read the architecture slide instead of the commit history.