Fractional CTO & Executive Tech Leadership
We are here to grow your business by understanding your core problem and owning your technology end-to-end.
01 THE CHALLENGE
Why teams struggle
without this.
Hire 12+ year engineering veteran Umesh Gupta (ex-Blinkit EM at $1B+ GMV, ex-Porter, ex-Head of Engineering at Urban Harvest) as your Fractional CTO. We diagnose your company’s core growth bottleneck, design high-scale technical architecture, unblock engineering teams, and lead technical execution without the $400k/yr executive payroll or equity dilution.
The Common Trap:
Most software agencies and contractors fail founders because they build features blindly without understanding the business model or unit economics. Founders get stuck babysitting tickets, refereeing developer arguments, and firefighting tech debt instead of talking to customers and closing revenue. We step in as your strategic executive partner to own technology completely.
Measurable Outcomes:
- Pinpoint diagnosis of your core business bottleneck and growth model within Week 1
- Production-grade technical architecture designed to scale effortlessly to millions of users
- Hands-on architecture reviews, PR gates, and sub-50ms latency standards
- Senior engineering hiring filters, interview processes, and CI/CD developer velocity
- Executive, board, and investor technical representation with high institutional credibility
02 WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Tangible artifacts,
not just advice.
Every engagement produces documented, verified deliverables that your internal team owns and maintains completely.
Core Business Problem & Technical Diagnostic Brief
Deep audit of your customer funnel, unit economics, codebase bottlenecks, data models, and team velocity to uncover the real problem holding back growth.
Sovereign Technical Architecture & Roadmap
Opinionated system blueprints (PostgreSQL, Go/Node, Next.js, Cloud IaC) with zero vendor lock-in and guaranteed milestone sequencing.
Direct Hands-on Code & Pull Request Reviews
Umesh Gupta directly reviews and signs off on critical PRs, data schema migrations, security boundaries, and performance benchmarks.
Engineering Hiring & Team Scaffolding
Vetting senior engineering candidates, conducting rigorous technical interviews, and onboarding talent into a high-craft engineering culture.
03 THE 4-STEP PROCESS
Disciplined,
transparent execution.
Core Problem Diagnosis
We interview leadership, inspect user friction, audit current code and cloud costs, and define the single primary bottleneck to growth.
Architecture & Execution Alignment
We establish the technical roadmap, eliminate unneeded tooling, set up strict testing and deployment pipelines, and remove developer blockers.
Embedded Sprint Leadership
Continuous weekly sprints, hands-on PR reviews, board updates, and architectural stewardship to ensure steady production delivery.
04 ENGAGEMENT STRUCTURE
Clear commitments.
Predictable investment.
Strategic Advisory & Architecture Review
Core Fractional CTO
Embedded Fractional CTO + Senior Pod
05 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Everything you
need to know.
Why hire a Fractional CTO instead of a full-time CTO or traditional agency?
A full-time Tier-1 CTO costs $350k–$450k/year in salary plus 1–2% equity, and takes 6+ months to recruit. A traditional agency will assign junior developers and mindlessly build tickets without understanding your business model. As your Fractional CTO, Umesh Gupta brings 12+ years of battle-tested engineering leadership (Blinkit $1B+ GMV, Porter, Urban Harvest 15→50+ scale) on Day 1 at a fraction of the cost with zero equity dilution.
How do you understand our core business problem before writing code?
We do not treat engineering as an isolated ticket factory. We start by auditing your growth bottleneck: Is customer acquisition bleeding because of slow load times? Is churn happening due to broken transactional workflows? Are cloud costs eroding unit economics? Once we identify the real leverage point, we design and ship technology that directly moves business metrics.
Can you help us hire and scale an in-house engineering team?
Yes. We design the hiring rubric, source and interview senior engineering candidates, evaluate live technical submissions, and establish clean engineering documentation so your internal team scales with high velocity and zero technical debt.