Fractional CTO
Ongoing part-time technical leadership — strategy, architecture, and team, a few days a month.
Fractional CTO · Interim Engineering Leadership
Your business needs technical leadership. You're not ready to hire a full-time person.
I step in as your fractional CTO or interim engineering leader — owning the technical org while you grow into the full-time hire, or filling the gap while you find them.
Get in contact, for a free hour consultationYou might need assistance if…
- Your technical co-founder is leaving or shifting focus.
- You're making your first engineering hires and no one owns the "how."
- The team has growing pains and you need senior technical judgment.
- Investors are asking technical due-diligence questions you can't fully answer.
- You need senior technical judgment — but not a full-time salary.
Ways to work together
Interim Engineering Manager
I run the engineering org day-to-day while you hire the permanent leader.
Technical Advisor
Strategic input and a senior sounding board, without day-to-day involvement.
Project & Audit
One-time architecture review, team assessment, or hiring-process design.
About
I'm Derek Gavey — a hands-on engineering leader who's spent 25+ years building software. Most recently as Senior Engineering Manager at Onclusive leading development teams on media-analytics SaaS platforms and the systems that run it. Earlier I spent seven years as a CTO and ran my own software business. I've owned technical organizations from first hire through to scale.
- Senior Engineering Manager, Onclusive — leading sofware development teams
- CTO, Accessible Accessories Ltd. — owned technology and product for eight years
- Owner, Gavey Computer Services — ran an independent software business for eight years
Book a free hour
A free, no-obligation hour to talk through where your engineering org is and what it needs. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you.