Fractional CTO · Asad Ali Aslam

Who it is for

Founders and CEOs who need senior technology judgment but not yet a full-time CTO
Companies running an outsourced agency or a distributed team with no technical owner
Groups of related companies that should share platforms, identity and vendors
Boards and investors who want one accountable technology lead

How it is engaged

FormatMonthly retainer, a fixed number of days or hours per month

CadenceWeekly leadership session, plus on-call for decisions and incidents

Minimum termThree months, then month to month

First stepA two-week technology review that becomes the first roadmap

What you get

Roadmap and architecture

A quarterly technology roadmap, buy-versus-build decisions and architecture decision records you can hand to any team.

Agency and vendor governance

Scope approval, sprint review and code review gates for the agencies and vendors you already pay.

Identity and admin ownership

Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, AWS and Cloudflare administration, SSO and MFA rollout, access granted per person.

Security and compliance posture

Least-privilege access, audit logging, data-protection plans and regulator-facing documents.

Hiring and team design

Role definitions, interviews and onboarding for the first engineers you bring in house.

Executive reporting

A written monthly view of what shipped, what it cost and what is at risk.

Proof: the work behind it

Real engagements and builds, each written up from the code and the running system.

Nomad Universe and Gentoo Tickets: running technology for a three-company group

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NomadSuite: the internal platform every company in the group runs on

Case study

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Questions

How is this different from hiring a CTO?

You get the same decisions and accountability for a fraction of the cost, with no hiring risk. When the company needs a full-time CTO, I help you hire and hand over to them.

Do you also write code?

Yes. I still do the migrations, the fixes and the pull-request reviews, which is why the architecture advice stays practical.

Can you work with our existing agency?

That is most of the job in many companies. I set the spec, review and release process the agency works inside.