10/29/2026 updated
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100 % availableFractional CTO, AI Systems, Full-Stack Engineering, Audits and Rescues
Dallas, USA
Only remote
Computer Science coursework (not completed), Brigham Young UniversityAbout me
Fractional CTO who also builds: AI systems, full-stack, audits and rescues. 15+ years in production software; as co-founder and CTO I took an AI platform from zero to 50+ companies, under 3% churn. Start with an MVP, AI for repeated work, an audit or a rescue, in milestones you accept in writing.
AI AgentsOpenAIArtificial IntelligenceMobile Application DevelopmentCode ReviewPython (Programming Language)Node.jsSoftware ArchitectureTypeScriptLarge Language ModelsGenerative AIFull Stack Development
Fractional CTO & Technical Leadership
If no one on your staff owns the technical decisions, I take that seat: what to build first, in what order, and whether what was built is right. If you already have developers or an agency, I set their direction and review what they ship, with a plain-language written update every week. Fractional CTO on an AI and maps mobile assistant MVP, from scope and architecture to developer hiring and build oversight. For 6 years the primary technical and product decision-maker for a CRM platform, leading its team of 20+.
AI Automation & Agents
I write down the work your team repeats and rate each task: automate it, have the system draft it for a person to approve, or leave it with a person. Built an order-email processor that flags uncertain matches for a person, an invoice reconciliation that writes back payment status, and a system where supervisor models review what worker models produce before a user sees it. Parallel Claude and GPT pipelines across 18 task types, with queues, retries and failure handling.
Full-Stack Engineering
MVPs and full products for web and mobile in TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js and Python, on PostgreSQL and AWS. Built a freight logistics platform with role-based access and shipped a React Native mobile app.
Audits & Rescues
An independent look at your live platform: a written report of what to fix first and what can wait. A stalled project, or an AI pilot that works in a demo and fails in use, gets a short fixed-price diagnosis that ends in a written verdict: fix it, finish it, narrow it, rebuild it or stop. White label work for agencies on terms agreed in writing first.
How I Work
Discovery comes first; the scope, an acceptance test, the plan and the architecture follow from that. AI starts with guardrails and the critical decisions stay with a person. One accountable lead on your project. I use generative AI on client work and say so before we start. Anything that fails the agreed test within 30 days of acceptance, I fix at no extra charge.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2018
Languages
EnglishNative speaker
Project history
Through Serene Labs I lead technology for owners and operators as a fractional CTO, take repeated work off their team's week, and build, audit or rebuild products. I have worked as fractional CTO on an AI and maps mobile assistant MVP, as fractional technical product lead on a v1 water-monitoring dashboard for industrial controller data and as embedded AI program lead for a B2B SaaS firm. I am working as technical lead on a marketplace's web platform rebuild, and as senior technical lead for a mid-market operator that does not need a full-time CTO. Other work: a freight platform, an order-email processor, an invoice reconciliation and a pre-launch code review.
I start with discovery, write the scope and an acceptance test, build one accepted piece at a time and keep a person approving what matters. I am one accountable lead on your project. I use generative AI on client work and tell clients so before we start.
I also build Serenity and Sous, my own AI agent systems. Neither is set up for clients yet.
The problem was one AI product that had to run parallel Claude and GPT pipelines reliably across 18 distinct task types. I owned the architecture, the AI pipelines, the backend, the frontend and the deployment, and ran the pipelines with a queue, retries and failure handling. I took it from zero to 50+ companies with under 3% churn.
As a partner at Fancy Awesome, a digital marketing agency serving hundreds of brands including SKIMS, I ran operations and fulfillment, in practice as its COO. I scaled the agency's operations and led its move to AI-assisted workflows. I managed its cross-functional delivery teams.