Fractional CTO for Early-Stage Startups | Technical Leadership from MVP to Growth | 88mph Tech
As a startup tech consultant, I partner with early-stage founders to turn vision into reality. My work starts by helping you define, or refine, the core problem to be solved, so it’s easy to design, build, and launch a product that actually fits your market. From day one, I help you embed a data-driven culture, ensuring decisions are guided by facts, not guesswork. I’m a trusted tech partner for non-technical founders, translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable strategies. Whether you’re preparing for your first MVP or have just launched, I provide post-MVP tech strategy that helps lean startups scale smartly without unnecessary complexity. My affordable, fractional CTO-level guidance is designed for global startups who want high-level technical oversight without the cost of a full-time executive. Along the way, I offer founder coaching on technical knowledge, so you can confidently lead your product and team — even without a coding background. My goal is simple: to make your path from idea to growth faster, clearer, and more achievable.
AI can be very powerful, however there is a lot of misinformation and sometimes it's used for tasks that don't belong to it. I can provide an overview of how AI can be used effectively in your business and even how it can power automations that can save you time
I have built multiple teams in my carreer. There were mainly 2 types of scenario: - New internal projects that needed temporary resources (from a few weeks to a few months) to be picked from an internal pool of talent. In this case is good to know your people and how to balance each team. - Building tech teams from the ground up, which requires more effort in sourcing people from outside the company (contract and permanent alike)
I have setup Data Lakes (ie: BigQuery / Snowflake) and BI tools multiple times to make it easier to founders to be data driven and answer their questions with actual data.
When starting your company the most precious asset you have is time. So anything you can do to save some of it is a blessing. Marketing is known to be a huge time drain if not organised efficiently. From ads to emails the keyword is doing things once and multiply the ouput
To know how a product performs you will need tools to track your product, and most importantly to know how to define your objectives, so that you can plan and iterate more easily
Building a product is more about defining a problem and planning the execution. You will hear me asking "What is the problem you're trying to solve?" a lot, as is the most underestimated aspect
Remote work is barely about working in different locations, but is mainly about working asynchronously. I can help finding ways where your processes can be transformed to be asynchronous, removing bottlenecks and increasing the overall output
Technology is at the core of everything these days. Every single step of your business can be made easier and automated with technology. Let's discover together how you can make your business more efficient
I've used Airtable in many different ways. As a kanban board, as a database, as a CRM. It offers a good set of database-like primitives that can be used in many ways
Using a code version control is not only recommended, but it's considered mandatory. Without it you could lose weeks or months of work and make debugging incredibly difficult
Product Analytics is an essential part of the product development and release process. It's equally important to have a reliable and flexible tool like this
Decoupling development and marketing tasks is very useful and Tag Manager allows you to deploy your frontend tracking code in a matter of minutes, rather than ask the development team to do those changes.
I've installed and maintained several linux machines with different distros and different purposes. Linux has become incredible easy to use, and it's now more stable than ever
Ruby on Rails is my personal favourite coding framework. It allows you to create an MVP of your product in a matter of days or weeks. Plus it offers an incredibly stable codebase.
Trello is probably the easiest and the most reliable tool to keep track of your product development. It integrates with many tools and it's easy to use
I bridge the gap between business vision and technical execution. I help founders navigate the path from raw idea to scalable MVP, ensuring you build the right product without wasting budget on the wrong tech.
• Hired and led a team engineers and oversaw all technical aspects of the company's product • Participated to leadership and strategic meetings contributing with mission critical ideas and initiatives that increased MRR by 10%. • Streamlined the development of business critical integrations with client systems. Reduced the implementation time of client integrations from an average of 2 weeks to 2 days. • Introduced observability tools and practices, which hugely improved and simplified the debugging process decreasing triage time in a matter of minutes instead of hours • Introduced maintainable and secure development practices, nurturing a stress-free culture where innovation and value delivery are the focus. Each member of the engineering team is gradually given more autonomy and accountability, to a point where everyone is contributing to our product strategy and roadmap. • Contributed to the development of a process that brought the average time for completing external due diligence assessments from weeks to days.
I started as a full stack engineer and, as the company grew, I got more responsibilities in terms of product planning and accountability for some part of the code base. I eventually became a Tech Lead engineer and led a few of our product and platform teams.
Joined a startup as lead developer and quickly became a vital component of the founding team. It involved designing and implementing an Android app and a backend service.
The memofonte foundation needed to create tools for Art and History researchers, with which they can search and study the contents of very old documents and letters and cross-reference these contents.
Joined a university team as a C++ developer to work on a European defense project involving design, simulations and testing of a new military communication protocol.
As a part of the developer team I designed and engineered several parts of a bigger system providing services to all the italian schools
