Fractional CTO · Engineering Advisor · Interim Head of Engineering
Senior engineering leadership, without the full-time hire
I step into startups and scale-ups that have outgrown their engineering setup — as a fractional CTO, an advisor to your existing team, or an interim Head of Engineering while you hire.
Track record
5 → 40+
Remote engineers
Built and led a distributed engineering org at Chainstack while the company grew from 10 to 110 people.
1 → 30-40
Releases per month
Moved teams off big-bang releases onto agile micro-releases with QA and security gates in CI/CD.
99.99%
Uptime initiative
Led the cross-department programme that took service availability to four nines.
~65
Engineers today
Technical Director for Imunify360 at CloudLinux — development, malware research and QA.
4 clouds
Multi-cloud infrastructure
AWS, GCP, Azure and Virtuozzo, with infrastructure as code on Terraform and Kubernetes.
2
Blockchain patents
Ledger data transfer and replication; pull-based orchestration of nodes.
How we can work together
Fractional CTO
A few days a month of senior technical ownership: architecture decisions, hiring bar, roadmap feasibility, vendor and cloud choices, and a direct line for your founders.
- Technical strategy the board can read
- Architecture and build-vs-buy calls
- Engineering hiring and levelling
Interim Head of Engineering
Full-time cover while you search for a permanent leader — keeping delivery, morale and the hiring pipeline moving instead of stalling for six months.
- Own delivery and team health from day one
- Run the search and hand over cleanly
- Stabilise release cadence and on-call
Engineering advisor
Ongoing sparring for a CTO or founding engineer who wants a second opinion from someone who has already scaled the thing they are about to build.
- Monthly architecture and process review
- Escalation path for hard calls
- Post-mortem and reliability practice
Where I add the most
Scaling remote teams
Hiring, levelling and structuring distributed engineering orgs — from the first five hires to 40+ across time zones, including the HR-less phase where the engineering lead runs the whole pipeline.
Release velocity
Cutting the distance between commit and production: agile process, CI/CD gates for QA and security, trunk-based habits, and the metrics that show whether it worked.
Reliability at scale
99.99% uptime programmes, observability with OpenTracing/Grafana/Prometheus, on-call that people can live with, and post-mortems that change behaviour.
Multi-cloud infrastructure
AWS, GCP, Azure and Virtuozzo under one infrastructure-as-code story with Terraform and Kubernetes — including the cost conversation nobody wants to have.
AI adoption in engineering
Embedding AI agents into QA and architecture-review gates, standardising internal AI workflows, and building an LLM-maintained knowledge platform so teams and agents share one view of ownership and decisions.
Security-critical products
Ownership of a server-security suite protecting web hosts at scale: malware detection, WAF, proactive defense and automated patching.
Why me
Technical Director for Imunify360 at CloudLinux today, with an engineering organisation of about 65. Before that: R&D Director at Virtuozzo, Engineering Director at Chainstack through its 10 → 110 growth, CTO at Yango.pro, and CTO and founder of Litexit.ru — sold to the largest Russian player in its market. Two blockchain patents. Based in Belgrade, working across European time zones.
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A 30-minute intro call, no pitch deck. Tell me what is slowing delivery down and I will tell you whether I am the right person for it.
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