Everything a CTO brings to an SME, without hiring one. I combine these six areas to fit your situation: every engagement is tailored, starting from what you already have.
Technical architecture
Stack, software building blocks, product foundations: I design an architecture that fits your context, your team and your budget. Every context is different, and every architecture should be too. I favour solutions you can control and evolve without forced lock-in.
When to call on it
You're launching a product, your application can no longer handle the load, or a vendor is pitching an expensive rebuild that nobody in-house can challenge.
What I deliver
A reasoned assessment of what exists, a documented target architecture, the trade-offs explained (cost, time, risk) and a roadmap to get there.
Team leadership
Roadmap, sprints, code reviews, unblocking developers: I become the CTO your team is missing. I set the pace, bridge management and tech, and steer your vendors so they are accountable.
When to call on it
You have developers or vendors, but nobody to set priorities, check quality and hold deadlines.
What I deliver
An up-to-date roadmap, team rituals that work, regular code reviews and a clear status report for management.
DevOps and infrastructure
Continuous integration and deployment, monitoring, server management: I set up the infrastructure that frees your developers and makes releases reliable. European hosting when your context calls for it.
When to call on it
Your deployments are manual and stressful, customers find incidents before you do, or nobody really knows how your servers run.
What I deliver
Automated deployment pipelines, monitoring with alerts, documented and reproducible infrastructure.
Hiring support
Job descriptions, technical interviews, candidate assessment: I help you recruit the right technical profiles, even when nobody in-house can judge their level.
When to call on it
You need to hire a developer, a lead or a future CTO and don't know how to assess candidates.
What I deliver
Realistic job descriptions, technical interviews run with you, a written opinion on each finalist.
Development
Prototyping, critical modules, APIs, integrations: I code when it's needed, I delegate when it's possible. Getting my hands in the code lets me check what gets delivered and unblock hard situations.
When to call on it
You need to prove an idea quickly, build a sensitive component, or unblock a project nobody manages to move forward.
What I deliver
Code in production, tested and documented, that your team or vendors can take over.
AI applied to your operations
I put AI to work on concrete tasks: sorting documents, qualifying requests, assisting teams. I pick models according to your goals (cost, speed, confidentiality), design multi-agent workflows and size the infrastructure, in the cloud or on dedicated servers.
When to call on it
You want to benefit from AI without knowing where to start, or your trials never get past the demo stage.
What I deliver
A first profitable use case identified, a proof of concept in under 30 days, then integration into your existing tools.
Sovereign CRM with Twenty
Your customer data deserves a tool you control. I'm a partner of Twenty, the open-source CRM, and I set it up for SMEs that want to move off spreadsheets or a proprietary CRM: data model design, migration of existing data, automations and connections to your other tools.
