I'm Andy. I help SME founders and boards get a senior CTPO without the full-time hire. Embedded in your team, two to three days a week, from day one.
IF ANY OF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR
The founder is the de-facto CTO. They are drowning in it.
Everyone's using AI tools. Nobody owns the strategy.
Ready to hire senior. No idea how to evaluate them.
The roadmap is chaos. Velocity isn't shipping.
The board wants a clear strategy. You don't have one.
Pick the shape that fits the moment. Most engagements start with an Advisory Hour — a low-risk way to find out if I'm the right brain on your problem.
Senior product & engineering leadership without the seven-figure cost.
Two to three days a week, embedded in your team. Product strategy, technology direction, engineering leadership, roadmap, board prep. Whatever your stage actually needs. For founders doubling as CTO, and for SMEs that simply don't need a full-time one yet.
AI is already in your business. Now make it intentional.
Tools in place, experiments running, no strategy holding it together. We map what's actually happening with AI across your business, cut what isn't working and build a plan that moves AI from experiment to advantage. No magic, no vendor pitch.
Hire me to interview for you. One bad senior hire sets you back a year.
You can't hire a senior engineer or engineering leader you can't out-interview. I run technical and leadership interviews for your CTO, Head of Engineering and senior IC roles. You get a clear, opinionated recommendation. Calibration included.
One sharp conversation when you need a second pair of eyes.
A 60-minute working session for the decision you've been chewing on for two weeks. Architecture call, hiring dilemma, vendor selection, board narrative. You bring the question, I bring 25 years of pattern-matching.
30 minutes, no agenda. You tell me the problem. I tell you whether I'm the right person for it. Honestly, no sales pitch.
A short paid engagement to map the real shape of things. You leave with a written assessment regardless of next steps.
I join your standups, your Slack, your leadership team. Visible, accountable, there for the decisions that count.
The job is to make myself unnecessary. We agree what 'done' looks like at week one, not week twelve.
Honest takes on AI's real impact on software development. The parts most teams are getting wrong, and the patterns that actually work. No newsletter pop-up. Read what's useful, ignore the rest.
Started as a software engineer and never stopped thinking like one. Founded three technology businesses, winning three consecutive industry awards with the first.
Led eleven cross-functional teams at a £2bn e-commerce operation, with ownership across product, engineering, and delivery. Scaled EMEA at Apollo GraphQL from $1M to $11M ARR, holding both technical and commercial accountability.
Across all of it, the same pattern. Senior product and engineering leadership is the lever. Most SMEs don't need it full time. So I step in two to three days a week, do the work that only a senior person can do, and leave a team that doesn't need me anymore.
Currently building in the AI space alongside the fractional work, so the patterns I write about come from practice. UK-based. Remote-first by preference, in-person wherever the work needs it.
11×
EMEA ARR scaled from $1M → $11M at Apollo GraphQL
£6M+
Annual savings delivered through transformations
40,000+
Engineers and leaders reached through event speaking
95%
Offer acceptance rate across 200+ hires
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Fractional CTPO
Various
Head of EMEA Enterprise Solutions
Apollo GraphQL
Head of API Engineering
RS Components
Founder / CTO
FactorEleven
Head of Product
The Exchange
30 minutes, no deck, no pitch. You tell me what's keeping you up. I tell you honestly whether I can help.
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