Services
Fixing people, process, and execution.
High-accountability engineering leadership built for scale, not bloat. I bring executive and fiscal discipline to growth-stage companies, stabilizing delivery timelines, implementing global compliance, and turning your engineering organization into a predictable business partner.
Practice areas
Leadership
Executive engineering leadership without the overhead of a permanent hire. Strategy, execution, advisory, due diligence, and AI transformation, shaped to your stage.
Jump to Leadership ↓ GrowingTalent
The people behind the leader. Placement, recruitment, and building teams to hand off. Rolling out as the practice grows.
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Available nowExecutive-level engineering leadership, available now, shaped to your stage and what hurts most.
Fractional CTO
Your senior-most operational and strategic voice. I own the business and governance of technology. I translate complex engineering metrics for your board and investors, build fully-costed organizational models with Finance, manage technical risk, and establish the compliance bedrocks required for hyper-growth and exit.
Best for
Founders who need executive technical judgment, financial alignment, and risk management before they can justify or source a full-time, permanent CTO.
What you get
- Strategic & fiscal alignment with the CEO and CFO
- Board & investor governance and reporting
- Compliance bedrock: SOC2, GDPR, CCPA
- AIDLC foundation and AI future-proofing
- Commercial & M&A technical guardrails
Fractional VP of Engineering
Execution leadership. I step into complex or hyper-growth environments to fix the people, process, and execution friction that slows down product delivery. I partner with Founders, Finance, and Product to build fully-costed organizational models and high-accountability cultures.
Best for
Teams entering phases of rapid scale or organizational transition where shipping has become slow, unpredictable, or misaligned with business growth.
What you get
- People: org design, team realignment, morale through change
- Process: right-sized Agile that makes delivery calm and predictable
- Execution: engineering repositioned as a measurable business partner
- AIDLC optimization: AI tools integrated safely to drive velocity
Advisory & mentoring
A lighter touch. A trusted, tactical sounding board for founders navigating scale, and a seasoned guide for the engineering leaders you are growing from within.
Best for
Leaders who hold the role but want a seasoned guide, and organizations looking to accelerate the maturity of their internal management layer.
Three tracks
- For Founders: turnarounds, pivots, M&A readiness, budget alignment
- For Executive Leaders: team structure, vendor negotiations, delivery rhythms
- For Engineering Managers: incident management, velocity, team performance
Engineering health check & due diligence
An honest, executive assessment. A fixed-scope evaluation of an engineering organization's structural health, compliance posture, operational efficiency, and cost structure. Built for founders who want the ground truth before a raise, and for investors or acquirers running formal technical due diligence.
Best for
Venture capital and private equity firms executing pre- or post-acquisition diligence, or founders preparing for a major strategic pivot, fundraising round, or leadership transition.
What you get
- Compliance & risk audit: SOC2, GDPR, CCPA, operational liabilities
- Fiscal & vendor assessment: infrastructure spend and engineering ROI
- Execution readout: people and process bottlenecks, plainly explained
- A prioritized, plain-English action plan with a defined start and end
AIDLC Governance & Transformation
Modernizing the SDLC. A fixed-scope engagement to transition your engineering workflow into a secure, high-velocity AI Development Life Cycle (AIDLC). I build the operational bedrock, tools, and guardrails required to move AI from experimental prompts to production-grade deployment.
Best for
Founders and executives who want to leverage AI acceleration across their engineering team, but need to manage technical risk, control compute costs, and ensure strict compliance.
What you get
- AIDLC readiness assessment: where AI can safely accelerate your team
- Infrastructure & tooling foundations for long-term AI delivery
- Guardrails: data security, source code protection, cost optimization
Talent
GrowingBeyond executive leadership, Echelon 9 is building the capability to field the teams behind the leader. These offerings are rolling out in targeted phases. Inquire for priority access if your timeline requires them today.
Talent placement
Vetted engineers and leaders placed into your organization. Beyond leadership, Echelon 9 fields the people behind the leader, dropping them into optimized environments where process bottlenecks have already been cleared.
Best for
Teams that need proven people quickly, with the option to try the cultural and execution fit before committing to a permanent hire.
What you get
- Proven professionals I personally vouch for
- Fractional-to-permanent at your discretion
- A leader who knows exactly how to set them up to succeed
Recruitment & team build-out
Running hiring for you, end to end. Sourcing and team expansion led by an executive who has actually built and managed the high-performing teams you are trying to hire.
Best for
Companies scaling headcount who want hiring led by an expert rather than a generic keyword-matching agency, ensuring you build the right team rather than just a bigger one.
What you get
- Role definition & leveling aligned with your financial models
- Structured assessment to screen for accountability and cultural fit
- Offer & close support to successfully land top talent
Build a team to leave behind
My signature engagement. I embed deeply to resolve your immediate operational friction, design and scale the global team structure you need, mentor the incoming permanent leadership, and then cleanly step out. You get a self-sufficient engine rather than a permanent dependency on me.
Best for
Founders who need the organization built and stabilized now but want total, long-term ownership of their engineering engine internally.
What you get
- Immediate stabilization of delivery, process, and team morale
- Scalable org architecture built alongside Finance and People
- Succession & leadership handoff to the internal leader taking over
- A planned, clean exit with the culture intact
How engagements work
Flexible by design. We shape the commitment around your stage and what hurts most.
Fractional retainer
An ongoing commitment, typically one to two days a week, when you need a leader in the seat over time.
Fixed-scope project
A defined piece of work with a clear start and end, like a health check, diligence, or a specific build-out.
Advisory
A lighter, regular touchpoint, for founders and leaders who mainly need a trusted sounding board.
Fractional retainers from $8k/mo. Fixed-scope projects priced as a flat fee upfront. Inquire for a custom proposal.
Let’s talk about where you’re headed.
Tell me what you’re building and where it hurts. A short conversation is the best place to start.
Currently taking a limited number of new clients.