Fractional tech leadership
The leadership layer your engineering team needs, without the full-time hire. I've led a team of 12 — setting technical direction, coaching engineers and owning delivery — and I bring that same layer to your team part-time: the architecture reviews, the written decisions, the coaching and the process that keep a team shipping well.
What's included
The senior technical voice in the room — part-time, and accountable for outcomes.
A clear-eyed look at the systems you have: what’s load-bearing, what’s quietly costing you, and what to do about it. You get a written assessment and a sequenced plan, not a slide deck of ideals.
Big decisions get written down. I bring an RFC culture where one exists loosely or not at all — proposals with options and trade-offs, so the team decides deliberately instead of by accident.
Working directly with your engineers: code review standards, pairing on hard problems, and the kind of feedback that raises the bar without crushing morale. The leadership layer that keeps good engineers growing.
Just enough process to make work predictable: how tickets get shaped, how work flows to done, how incidents get handled. Tuned to your team size — not a cargo-culted enterprise playbook.
Who it's for
Founders and CEOs who have engineers but no senior technical voice — and aren’t ready for a full-time CTO or head of engineering.
Teams that have grown past the point where "the most senior dev decides" still works.
Businesses facing a big technical decision — a rebuild, a migration, a vendor choice — that want it stress-tested before money is spent.
The engagement
A standing weekly rhythm — usually a day or two per week across the month — plus async access for the decisions that can't wait. We start with a review of where the team and the systems stand, agree priorities together, and work from there.
Missing that senior technical voice?
Tell me about your team, your systems and the decisions on your desk. If fractional leadership isn't the right answer, I'll say so and point you at what is.
Start a projectOr email me directly at nickolastheodoulou@hotmail.com