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Fractional CTO
leadershipSenior technical leadership without the full-time hire.
Architecture, hiring, roadmap, the hard calls - a senior technical partner on the days you need one, not a headcount you can't afford.
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Senior engineering studio · Led by James Brinkerhoff
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The problem
Senior engineering that takes ownership.
Most dev shops hand you code and disappear. I stay engaged until it works in production - and keeps working.
The demo works. Then it ships, and the person who built it is already gone. Half-finished handoffs, offshore code no one can read, AI-generated apps that fold under real load. I take the opposite bet - stay engaged, own the outcome, be the one still there when it breaks at 3am.
Three ways in
Pick the door that fits the mess.
Co-equal practices, one standard: senior hands that own the result.
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AI Cleanup & Takeover
rescueWorks in the demo, breaks in production. I fix that.
You have a codebase that demoed beautifully and now pages people at 2am. I inherit it, stabilise it, and own it.
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Consulting & Build
deliveryShip the feature. Fix the bottleneck. Build the thing.
A scoped engagement with a defined edge - ship the feature, kill the bottleneck, audit the system, or build the thing outright.
Built onNext.jsStripePostgresAWSPayload
Why me
Two decades of production systems, not slide decks. I show up as principal - the same person who scopes the work ships it.
15+ yrs
shipping production software
Principal-led
senior hands, not a bench of juniors
48 hr
response on every inbound
Owned
I take the pager, not just the repo
Engagement modelv.owned
Fire-and-forget shophands off code, disappears
Offshore / AI demoworks in staging, dies in prod
DevEngagedowns the outcome, not the ticket
Led by James Brinkerhoff
Coming soon
- in the worksStarter kits
Battle-tested foundations I run my own studio on - auth, billing, and deploy, productised. Buy the head start, keep the ownership.
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