From Senior Developer to CTO: The First 90 Days
The code that made you senior now gets in the way. A three-month map: listen, stabilize, direct.
Read article14+ years building software that scales and leading high-impact technical initiatives. I operate as an on-demand Staff Engineer: architecture, technical strategy, and product delivery.
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Embedded Staff Engineering for your team: product architecture, high-impact technical decisions, mentoring of senior engineers, and raising the technical bar across the organization.
Diagnosis and redesign of systems with high technical debt. Stack definition, microservices, APIs, and scalability strategy for growing products.
From idea to working product in weeks. I work hands-on as a full-stack engineer for startups and companies validating new digital initiatives, with Staff-level engineering quality.
LLM and AI agent integration, workflow automation, and quality gates for teams adopting AI in the development cycle, with security and governance built in from day one.
14 years building software products that scale — from early-stage startups to corporate operations across multiple markets. I moved from full-stack developer to tech lead to Staff Engineer, always at the intersection of code, architecture, and teams.
I work with CTOs and founders who need solid technical decisions, architecture that holds under growth, and teams that ship consistently, without relying on individual heroics.
A direct, transparent, result-driven process. Focused on technical decisions that create real and lasting impact.
Let's talkI dig into the context: product, team, stack, and the main technical pain points. I map bottlenecks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities through a Staff Engineer lens.
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I work hands-on alongside the team. Code, architecture, code reviews, mentoring, and setting technical standards that raise the bar for the entire organization.
The team becomes independent. Architecture documentation, established patterns, and training to sustain and evolve what was built.
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The code that made you senior now gets in the way. A three-month map: listen, stabilize, direct.
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