Hi, I’m Mark. I help companies navigate technical complexity and build engineering teams that can build your vision.

I've developed a set of short, focused services designed to help you get unstuck, scale cleanly, and make better decisions.

They’re designed to be practical, scoped, and immediately useful. Each of these can stand alone or lead into a longer relationship.

If these don't quite fit the bill, and you're looking for more comprehensive, ongoing technical leadership, I also offer fractional CTO services.

Architecture Deep Dive

Is your technical foundation buckling under pressure as you scale? This service provides clarity for executives who need to make critical technical decisions but require an experienced set of eyes. I'll:

• Review your architecture, deployment, and code modularity to identify hidden risks
• Highlight brittle areas, anti-patterns, and constraints that could become costly mistakes
• Deliver a clear migration strategy that helps you move forward with confidence

Ideal for Series A/B startups or teams coming off a rewrite who need an experienced operator to cut through complexity and make informed technical decisions.

AI & Agentic Systems Audit

For executives facing innovation pressure who want to move beyond superficial experiments and hesitant half-measures that fail to capture AI's transformative potentials, I bring strategic clarity to your AI adoption journey. What would it look like to actually integrate AI into your product, stack, or team workflows?

I'll help you:

• Identify where AI can deliver genuine business value (and where it's just hype)
• Evaluate tools, protocols, and models that align with your specific goals
• Develop frameworks for agentic workflows or RAG pipelines that solve real problems
• Design practical pilot projects that deliver measurable business value while supporting long-term innovation

Hiring Pipeline Tune-Up

For founders and executives who can't afford to be blindsided by weak hires or team misalignments, I bring structure and clarity to your technical recruiting. I'll help you:

• Audit your existing hiring process and job descriptions to identify gaps
• Design rubrics, structured interviews, and scorecards that consistently identify top talent
• Align your team on what "good" looks like at each level and role
• Create a smooth onboarding process from candidate to contributor

Particularly valuable for leaders facing scaling pressures who need more than gut instinct to make hiring decisions.

Data Platform Audit

Are your data investments translating to competitive advantage, or just producing underutilized dashboards? When your organization struggles to extract actionable insights despite significant investment, I provide the executive clarity to unlock real business value:

• A clear assessment of how your current data infrastructure impacts top-line growth and decision speed
• Identification of critical gaps preventing your executive team from accessing timely, reliable insights
• Pragmatic architecture recommendations that align with your strategic priorities and ROI expectations
• A phased implementation roadmap with clear business outcomes at each milestone

This isn't just a technical review—it's a business transformation tool that converts data complexity into executive clarity, helping you make confident strategic decisions backed by reliable insights.

Engineering Health Diagnostic

This diagnostic delivers business impact by directly addressing engineering issues that affect your company's growth and financial health. Through targeted engineer surveys and tooling reviews, I'll uncover:

• Revenue-impacting bottlenecks that slow product delivery and time-to-market
• Hidden retention risks that could lead to costly turnover of key technical talent
• Accountability gaps preventing efficient execution of your strategic priorities

You'll receive a clear, executive-focused report with actionable recommendations to accelerate delivery timelines, reduce operational costs, and position your technical organization for sustainable growth.

Incident Response Readiness & Planning

Every hour of downtime costs you revenue and customer trust. Most organizations discover their crisis response gaps during a live incident—when it's already too late. Too many teams navigate crises with just Slack threads, tribal knowledge, and heroics—then wonder why problems keep recurring.

This service transforms incident response from a technical liability into a business advantage::

• Assess your current incident workflows and identify critical gaps
• Quantify downtime risk and potential revenue impact across critical business systems
• Establish clear accountability frameworks that eliminate costly response delays
• Establish effective alerting mechanisms that eliminate response delays
• Design clear communication protocols and practical runbooks for crisis management

Perfect for teams looking to transform reactive firefighting into systematic improvement. Ideal for executives who understand that operational excellence isn't just an engineering concern, but a business imperative.