Fractional CTO.
Ships code.
Hires the team that extends it.
Player-coach delivery for Series A/B companies that need a senior operator, not a slide deck. Twenty years across regulated systems (healthtech, fintech, public safety, govtech). AI-fluent. CISSP. Engagements through Ballance.IT, LLC.
engagements
Fractional CTO
Embedded engineering leadership for companies that need senior judgment but cannot yet justify a full-time CTO.
Architecture Review
A short paid engagement: review the system or roadmap, deliver findings, disengage.
Hands-on Engineering
Custom software, integrations, or specific deliverables taken from spec to ship.
what that looks like
Took a public-safety SaaS through a monolith-to-SOA migration, hired the team, owned the strangler-facade pattern across 18 months.