Founding CTO
Pre-revenue Sydney startup
Context
Two non-technical founders with a sharp idea and no engineering capacity. They needed someone to translate the product vision into a working stack, run technical hiring, and ship the first version of the product.
What I did
Set up the full technical foundation — cloud infrastructure, auth, data layer, CI/CD, internal tooling. Designed the AI-augmented build process so the team could ship features without scaling headcount. Wrote the engineering playbooks so new hires onboard in days, not weeks.
Outcome
Product live and iterating with paying pilot users. Engineering team running on rhythm.