// How I Work
I work with companies across Europe as a fractional CTO, interim engineering leader, and strategic advisor. Every engagement starts with understanding the business problem, not the technology.
For companies that need senior technology leadership without a full-time hire.
You have a growing product, a team that needs direction, and decisions that need someone who has made them before. A fractional CTO gives you 2-3 days a week of the same leadership a full-time CTO would provide, at a fraction of the cost. I stay hands-on in the codebase, review architecture decisions in context, and bring 20 years of building production systems across the full stack to the table.
For organisations that need hands-on engineering leadership now, not in three months.
Leadership transitions, post-merger integrations, rapid scaling. Sometimes an organisation needs someone who can step in, stabilise the team, set technical direction, and keep shipping while you find the right permanent hire. I have done this at FinCompare, where I took over the full technology function as interim CTO, reporting to the CEO, and delivered measurable results within months.
For leaders who want an honest outside perspective before making structural decisions.
A focused 2-4 week engagement where I assess your engineering organisation, architecture, delivery practices, and team structure. You get a written report with specific, actionable recommendations, not a slide deck full of frameworks.
For engineering leaders who want a grounded perspective on where AI creates genuine leverage, and where it does not.
I am not selling AI hype. I write code with AI tools every day, building full-stack applications, designing system architecture, and making build-vs-integrate decisions across the stack. The difference: I know where AI accelerates delivery and where it breaks down, because I hit those limits in real codebases, not in demos.
Every engagement starts with a conversation. No pitch, no sales process. We talk about where you are, what you are trying to achieve, and whether I am the right person to help. If I am not, I will tell you.
If we decide to work together, the structure is simple: a defined scope and expected outcomes, regular check-ins, async-first communication, monthly invoicing, no long-term lock-in. I work remotely from Berlin, available EU-wide with occasional on-site as needed.