Fractional CTO & AI Engineer
Helping high-growth SaaS startups with AI engineering, technical roadmap planning, team structuring, product engineering, and secure cloud architectures. Available for fractional engagements and ongoing technical leadership. Local to Springfield / Nixa and open to in-person meetups.
Startup Portfolio Exit
Co-founded, architected, and shipped the SaaS that exited in 2021.
Current Focus
15+ years building SaaS. Now architecting AI systems across local inference (Ollama / vLLM) and APIs (Anthropic / OpenAI).
Years Experience
For New Engagements
I'm a Chief Technology Officer and AI engineer. For the past 15 years I've built SaaS applications from the ground up, primarily Laravel with Blade/Vue. I architect production AI systems. My skills range from traditional API-driven stacks using Anthropic and OpenAI to local AI and on-prem inference.
I currently serve as Co-Founder & CTO at Inteletech, a role that started as a fractional engagement and evolved into a full-time leadership position as the company scaled.
I continue to take on select fractional engagements alongside my work at Inteletech, offering senior technical leadership to startups that need it without a full-time hire. Available for remote engagements globally, and always open to grabbing coffee with founders local to Springfield / Nixa.
Prior to Inteletech, I served as Chief Technology Officer and Technical Co-Founder of a SaaS startup that I successfully exited in 2021. That journey taught me what it takes to not just build a product, but align engineering with commercial value and exit opportunities.
Whether you have a team of 1 or none, I help you build and scale. I assist in decision-making for in-house vs. outsourced teams, source and interview engineering candidates, and establish robust development best practices.
Products running over time and budget? I specialize in identifying the core features needed to ship an MVP or clear blocked project backlogs. I establish execution roadmaps easily parsed by development resources.
Designing and shipping production AI systems across local inference (Ollama, vLLM) and API-driven stacks (Anthropic, OpenAI). RAG pipelines, agents, evaluation harnesses, cost controls, and the boring infrastructure that makes them reliable in production.
Broad spectrum execution capabilities ranging from bare-metal architecture deployment to responsive SPA frameworks and complex DB orchestration.
Laracasts Engineering Platform
Code School Network
College of the Ozarks
Experienced in driving company operations & project execution metrics using strict EOS methodologies.
Available for fractional, fixed-priced deliverables, or custom executive retainers.
Best for early-stage or pre-funded startups looking for a heavy-hitting architecture validation partner.
Custom fixed-price delivery agreements. Guaranteed launch scope.
Strategic hourly engagements for fractional CTO leadership and AI engineering — jump-start or unblock workflows.
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Estimated Weekly Investment
~ $11,475 calculated monthly contract total.
High bandwidth hands-on scaling, deep technical integration & direct roadmap leadership.
Have an ambitious web platform to launch, an AI integration to architect, an engineering team to structure, or an ongoing technical roadmap requiring seasoned CTO oversight? Reach out today — or grab a coffee with me locally in Springfield / Nixa.