A senior fractional CTO who makes the build — and the team — actually deliver.
27+ years building software. I step in as embedded technical leadership, get delivery moving — and then make myself replaceable. That last part is on purpose.
A short call, direct on my calendar — we'll figure out the right first step.
One person, the whole stack
Titles aren't the point — they're evidence of range. Whichever role your stage needs, it comes welded to a real outcome.
CTO
Own technical direction end to end — architecture, team, vendors, roadmap.
9 months stalled → shipped in 2
Head of AI
Build-vs-buy and architecture calls grounded in production reality, not demos.
On-prem transcription + LLM in production
VP-Engineering
Right-size the team and put in the process that makes delivery predictable.
13 → 4 lean team at ~2× delivery
RevOps
Rebuild the revenue engine — CRM, lead flow, and campaign spend that answer to data.
~45% ad-spend cut
Head of Data
Pipelines, KPI dashboards, and attribution that tie spend all the way to revenue.
Closed-loop attribution
Technical Due Diligence
Independent answers for investors and acquirers: is this asset — and this team — sound?
7+ platform evaluations
Who I help
Four places this work usually starts. If one of them sounds like your week, start there.
Your build has gone quiet
For founders whose agency or freelancers have stopped delivering — find out what's actually wrong, and get shipping again.
Read more →Decisions are piling up — nobody senior is making them
For funded teams that ship fine but have architecture, hiring, and vendor calls landing on the founder's desk — embedded senior judgment, a few hours a week.
Read more →Under pressure to "do AI" — and nothing has shipped
For companies whose AI pilots look great in demos and keep dying before production — a clear map of where AI genuinely helps, and pilots that actually ship.
Read more →You can't see inside the target's tech
For investors and acquirers with a deal on the clock — an independent, senior read on the code, the team, and the risk before the money moves.
Read more →Work that shipped
9 months stalled → shipped in 2
A US VoIP company's self-hosted AI project had been stuck for nine months. The right specialist team, plus process that made delivery visible — and it shipped in two.
13 → 4 people, ~2× delivery
Took a 13-person team spread across 3 countries down to a lean remote team of 4 — and roughly doubled delivery — by consolidating five native codebases into one hybrid app.
~45% ad-spend cut
Turned around the tech for a revived heritage travel brand: closed-loop attribution tying ad spend to revenue, a CRM rollout across a 40-person sales team, and an in-house portal in ~3 months.
Vibe-coded → App Store
Took a founder-built, entirely vibe-coded AI app, led a human review and cleanup of front-end and back-end, and hardened it to a public App Store launch.
Client names withheld — I'm happy to walk through any of these on a call.
How I work
Two principles first. I make sure the right developers get hired and actually deliver — I don't rent them to you. And I make myself replaceable. Four phases, and the last one is me leaving.
- 1
Discovery & Assessment
Weeks 1–2
Start with an audit or architecture review — a fixed-scope look at your code, team, and roadmap, ending in a prioritized plan you own whatever you decide next.
- 2
Quick Wins & Foundation
Month 1
Install the process that makes delivery visible — standups, issue tracking, CI/CD. Momentum you can see, early.
- 3
Scale & Optimize
Months 2–6
Execute the roadmap: right-size the team, harden the architecture, keep vendors honest.
- 4
Transition & Hand-off
Ongoing
Transfer knowledge to your permanent team — and when a gap becomes a full-time role, I help hire the person who replaces me, then step back to oversight.
I keep a capped number of embedded clients — you get real attention, not a slice of a portfolio.
Billed only for time actually worked — never a flat 160 hours a month.
Start with an audit
Rescue Audit / Architecture Review
$3.5–6K fixed
A fixed-scope review of your code, team, and roadmap, ending in a prioritized plan. A small, honest first step — clarity before you commit to anything bigger.
Book itEmbedded Fractional CTO
$8–12K/mo
The ongoing engagement, if the audit shows that's what you need: senior technical leadership a few hours a week, at a fraction of a full-time hire.
Most engagements start with the audit. Some end there too — a clear plan you run yourself is a perfectly good outcome.
About Sachin
I wrote my first program in 1999, at fifteen, and never really stopped — leading teams since 2005, running my own company since 2008. That company is Rawzor: it began as a deep-tech R&D studio in image compression and computer vision, and today it's the delivery firm behind my fractional work. Twenty-seven years in, building software is still the best job I know.
- 27+ years building software — since 1999
- 21+ years leading teams
- 18+ years running a business
- Founder of Rawzor
Need a team, not just a leader?
Rawzor is my firm — productized delivery practices run by technical PMs and senior associates under my oversight. Same rule as here: nobody rents you developers. You own the team; Rawzor owns the leadership, process, and outcome.
Tell me where things stand
A short call: you talk, I listen, and I'll tell you honestly whether the audit is the right move — no pitch, no pressure.
Email works best right now — write a couple of lines about where things stand and you’ll get a real reply from a real person, usually within a day.