Service
CTO & strategic advisory
Senior technology leadership for the decisions that shape your product, your architecture and your teams, without a full-time hire.
At a glance
- Format
- Advisory days, fractional or interim CTO
- Duration
- From a few days to several months
- Where
- Remote, on site in Luxembourg and the EU when it matters
- Languages
- English, French
When it helps
Sounds familiar?
- You have no CTO, or yours just left, and technical decisions are waiting.
- Technology choices are made project by project, with no shared direction.
- Your business strategy and your technical roadmap have drifted apart.
- Teams deliver, but quality, tooling and practices differ from one team to the next.
What I do
What I take on
Technical strategy
A roadmap tied to your business goals, with the trade-offs written down.
Architecture governance
Shared principles, decision records and reviews of project architectures.
Technical excellence
Training and workshops on clean code, testing, refactoring and technical debt.
Delivery platform
The tools, pipelines and cloud platforms your teams need to work well.
Teams and hiring
Recruitment, communities of practice and a culture where people keep learning.
AI in delivery
Where coding agents fit in your process, and the guardrails they need.
Ecosystem
The CTO toolbox
Seven years as CTO and head of a software factory left me with practices I adapt to each organisation, rather than a framework to install.
Strategy and governance
- Wardley Mapping Strategy from the value chain
- Architecture principles Shared, short, enforced
- Decision records Choices with their context
- Architecture reviews Before the build, not after
- FinOps Costs owned by teams
- AI guidelines Tools, rules and a starter harness
People and practices
- Communities of practice Peers who teach peers
- Technical excellence training Clean code, TDD, refactoring
- Code katas Deliberate practice
- Recruitment Technical interviews
- Retrospectives At team and company level
Formats
Ways to work together
Advisory
A few days
Frame one decision: an architecture review, a strategy workshop, a second opinion before a large investment.
Fractional CTO
Part-time, over months
A regular presence in your leadership team. I set direction with you and work alongside your tech leads.
Interim CTO
Full-time, fixed term
I hold the role for a defined period, for example while you recruit, and hand over to your permanent CTO.
- 2019 – 2026
CTO · Agile Partner
Defined the technical strategy with the management team, supported every project on value and quality, organised training and workshops, and built new technical service offers.
- 2023 – now
Enterprise architect · EU Publications Office
Member of the Security and Architecture Competence Center, the cross-directorate council that sets security and architecture guidelines.
- 2017 – 2019
Head of software development · Agile Partner
Technical leadership of the in-house software factory: validated project architectures, set tools and practices, and took part in recruitment.
Other ways I can help
Contact
Let's build something good together.
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