Ongoing: Fractional CTO, Hourly or on Retainer
Senior technical leadership every week, and a production system that someone is actually watching.
Ongoing work after the first build, or alongside your own team. This is where I work as a fractional CTO: architecture decisions, code review, technical direction for your developers, and looking after what is already in production. Pay by the hour when the need comes and goes, or take a monthly retainer when it is steady — the retainer works out cheaper from about 20 hours a month.
What's included
Included
- Weekly 60-minute strategy call
- Architecture review and technical decisions
- Code review and quality standards
- Team structure and hiring guidance
- Infrastructure cost optimization
- Post-launch support: server health and performance monitoring, backup verification, security patches
- Triage for production incidents
- Monthly status report and technical roadmap update
Who this is for
Teams that need senior technical leadership but not a full-time CTO, and founders who have launched and want someone looking after production.
Projects this fits
- You have a dev team of 3–8 engineers and need someone to set technical direction, review architecture, and maintain code quality without becoming a blocker
- Your tech debt is slowing down feature delivery — you need an experienced engineer to triage what to fix now versus what can wait
- You just launched and want server monitoring, verified backups and security patches handled while you focus on the business
Work under this service
FoodRazor
Scaled across 10 countries and hundreds of restaurants; acquired in 2023
2018–2019
Corecircle
Scaled to 200K+ users; acquired in 2024
2021
Truth or Dare (DareChat)
~40K monthly active users — live at darechat.me with a Swagger-documented public REST API at darechat.me/api.
2022
Rated 5.0 out of 5Michael Distel (opens in a new tab) reviewed on Upwork (opens in a new tab)
"Anton has been outstanding over the last year, helping to guide and advise the development of our application with Firebase."
Five-day refund
If in the first five days you feel this is not working, tell me and I refund what you paid.
A small first milestone
We start with one or two weeks of work. If either of us wants to stop at the end of it, we stop — you keep everything built so far.