A technology executive who owns your roadmap, architecture, team, vendors, security and budget — and the results. One to three days a week, or full-time while you hire.
What a fractional CTO actually does
The title is new; the job is not. A fractional CTO is accountable for your technology outcomes the way a full-time executive would be — they simply do it in fewer days and for more than one business. In practice that means:
- Owning the technology strategy and keeping it honest against what the business is trying to achieve this year and next.
- Making the architecture calls that are expensive to get wrong: platform, build versus buy, cloud, data, security and the sequencing of all of it.
- Leading the people. Hiring, coaching and, where necessary, restructuring an engineering team so it delivers without heroics.
- Managing the money. Cloud spend, vendor contracts, licensing and headcount plans that finance can trust.
- Reporting to the board in plain language on risk, delivery and investment.
How an engagement starts
Every engagement begins with a free consultation and, usually, a short diagnostic: a fortnight spent with your team, your systems and your numbers. You receive a written assessment and a ninety-day plan. If we continue, that plan becomes the first quarter of the retainer. If we don’t, you still have the plan.
Why Warp Vega
Warp Vega’s leadership has led technology at every scale that matters to a growing business — from a Tasmanian marine-data start-up to a fifty-five person, three-continent engineering organisation at a global SaaS company. We have reported to boards, established delivery centres in India and China, achieved SOC 2, and written more code than most executives would care to admit. You get that experience applied to your business, not a framework with your logo on it.