Learnings from 7 years of Fractional CTO roles

What is a Fractional CTO?

A Fractional CTO is typically a veteran engineering manager / strategic leader who works part-time for a smaller company than they’d normally join, giving the company the benefits of their experience without the full price tag.

Adam Martin

UK-based CTO, with 20 years experience in tech, scaleups, and corporates. Specialist in growing Product/Market Fit (P/MF)

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My Background

  • Software/Hardware Engineer, Project Manager, Executive Leadership
  • Early employee at multiple startups that grew to £100m+ valuations
  • European Head of Technology for a multinational games company
  • Popularized the Entity/Component Systems paradigm
  • Founded and ran a native-mobile agency (iOS, Android, C++, Java, ObjC)
  • Lead engineer on open-source iOS library with 4500 followers

Services

  • Strategy Review – See how product, engineering, sales, and operations are actually setup and running
  • Product/Market Fit – Get to P/MF, with team processes and strategy, and C-level coaching
  • Team Upgrades – Get the best out of your Product and Engineering teams
  • Board Strategy – Asking the difficult questions and finding the answers that matter
  • Operations – Creating feedback-loops for product, sales, engineering
  • Organization Scaling – Structure, organize, and inspire teams that are scaling-up