Vetted Chief Technology Officers

“Cloud consulting veteran building DragnCloud, an agentic cloud infrastructure builder aimed at teams outgrowing Heroku/Supabase who need complex setups (data pipelines, custom LLM hosting, multi-tier apps) without hiring consultants. Has SaaS background and has served as a Fractional CTO for funded companies; currently focused on landing the first 20 customers and expanding automation into higher-value workflows.”

Danny Beck

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Head of Engineering) specializing in platform rebuilds, AI, and Web3

California, USA11y exp

“Startup leader with 15+ years of experience, including lead engineer and founding CTO roles across 5 companies from pre-seed to Series A. Actively develops personal venture ideas by creating product specs/SLAs/business plans and engaging in investor pitch sessions and incubators, with a strong focus on early product-market fit via validated learning and data-driven pivots.”

Michael St.Claire

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Chief Architect specializing in microservices, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI agents

Idaho, US22y exp

“Startup-focused engineering leader applying for a CTO role; previously served as founding CTO of a tech startup and held engineering/architecture roles across several others. Evaluates new ventures through market research and market demand, and emphasizes building from the ground up with strong teams (has not personally participated in fundraising).”

Vladimir Novick

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CTO and Software Architect specializing in AI systems and cloud platforms

Israel, Israel22y exp

“Startup-minded technical founder currently running Novicklabs and building Itervox.dev, an AI agent orchestration platform for developer teams. Previously served as CTO at EventLoop and shows strong insight into multi-agent tooling, observability, security, and the open-source-to-cloud path for developer infrastructure products.”

Jhoneider Vanegas Vásquez

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Game Developer specializing in Unity/Unreal and XR (VR/AR)

Medellín, Colombia14y exp

“Unity developer who built a physics-driven city traffic AI system for a car driving simulator, including modular managers/handlers to enforce traffic lights and speed-limit zones around the player. Also has prior Photon PUN multiplayer experience implementing matchmaking/rooms, movement sync, and RPC-based actions for simple competitive games.”

“Silicon Valley operator with ~30 years of experience as a board member, advisor, VC, founder, and turnaround executive, claiming 50+ venture-backed turnarounds. Has driven outsized outcomes including a $1B Nokia spinout and a 9-figure Jaspersoft exit to TIBCO, and is known for pragmatic, people-and-financials-first operational diagnosis (including CRM forensics) and rapid team scaling via structured hiring pipelines.”

Joey Mule

Screened

Technology executive and engineering leader specializing in Automotive SaaS

17y exp

“Engineering leader who built the MVP and scaled iService Auto into a fixed-ops platform for dealership groups, aligning a dealer-driven roadmap to churn/revenue outcomes and preparing the company for strategic acquisition. Led a major modernization from a legacy Symfony monolith to a React frontend with a Symfony JSON API using feature-flagged incremental migration, while growing and retaining a ~20-person engineering team through the acquisition.”

Frank Albanese

Screened

Executive CTO & Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and distributed systems

New York, NY10y exp

“Founder of Essence, a wisdom and memory preservation platform with early testing indicating mental health benefits and positive impact for hospice patients. Has raised $25K to date and reports prior capital-raising experience through Y Combinator and the Berkeley Angel Network, with a GTM plan starting in hospice and expanding to the general public.”

“Unity game developer with hands-on experience improving platformer feel through playtest-driven movement tuning (e.g., coyote time) and building multiplayer features using Unity Netcode for GameObjects (authentication, lobbies, transport troubleshooting with UDP). Uses AI assistants pragmatically for repetitive code/architecture exploration while integrating changes manually to prevent regressions.”

Jason Sipula

Screened

Executive Technology Leader & Strategic Architect specializing in cloud-native platforms

Sacramento, CA15y exp

“Technology leader with experience driving multi-year transformations at Jewelry Supply, including migrating a legacy custom e-commerce platform to SaaS and leading a 3-year ERP program from requirements through implementation and training. Also led a major architecture shift from self-hosted virtualized infrastructure to cloud Kubernetes with a strong DevOps/DevEx focus, emphasizing stakeholder buy-in and scalable processes for distributed engineering teams.”

“Independent product builder with several live startups spanning transit, gaming, and SaaS/API tools. Notably built a Cyprus bus routes app before transit data was broadly available on Google Maps, and is currently maintaining products like CountriesDB and HolidayDB while pursuing SEO-led growth and validating ideas solo before expanding.”

“Operations-focused leader/advisor who repeatedly helps growing organizations design and implement scalable internal structures using a People-Process-Technology framework, process mapping, and KPI-driven management. Notable wins include building a delivery operations function after a multi-million-dollar bespoke sale and cutting customer service effort by 30% in a month by shifting from email to structured intake and measurement. Also coaches executives (including remote-management capability) and runs quarterly continuous-improvement cycles to keep ops aligned as companies evolve.”

“Founder/CTO-type candidate with deep exposure to the VC/accelerator ecosystem (Open Angel Forum; HAX/SOSV) and a track record of raising capital, including a $1M seed round in 2017. Built ventures spanning IoT wearable/HUD SaaS for industrial hygiene monitoring and institutional Bitcoin mining/distributed compute infrastructure, and ran a venture from 2017–2025.”

“Startup-focused tech leader with 20+ years of experience who has led engineering teams across multiple startups and pitched inside VC firms. Currently building infrastructure for managing physical wealth—creating a canonical data layer that integrates with wealth management systems to account for precious metals and other tangible assets—and is prepared to raise capital to align with the right partners.”

“Engineering leader who modernized infrastructure by migrating a ~100-server co-location setup to AWS/GCP with IaC, auto-scaling, and fault-tolerant design, reducing hardware upgrade burden. Also led a key analytics architecture shift from MySQL to ClickHouse to enable highly granular ad revenue attribution and profitability insights, while scaling the dev org from 2–3 to ~12 with stronger CI/testing and review processes.”

“Co-founder at Skarbe who built “Oskar,” an autonomous sales agent that handles inbound email, lead qualification, and automated follow-ups using a multi-agent architecture (OpenAI Agents SDK) with a human-in-the-loop learning phase for reliability. Also owned scaling and reliability of Gmail/Outlook sync, including a Node.js-to-Rails migration and incident response during a Product Hunt launch that generated hundreds of signups and a ~2M-email queue.”

Mark Eagle

Screened

Executive Technology & Operations Leader (CTO/COO) specializing in scaling SaaS and enterprise software

Denver, Colorado29y exp

“Operations leader and advisor (former COO at College Partnership; also worked with Founders Advisors) who rebuilds and scales early-stage operations using Lean Startup experimentation and KPI-driven execution. Notably centralized a call-center function, implemented scripts/SLAs/metrics, and iterated staffing based on conversion and response-time data while mentoring non-ops founders on MVPs, SMART goals, and tactical operating plans.”

“Candidate is targeting a CTO Venture Studio role and positions themself as a technical partner to founders rather than a founder personally. They demonstrate strong fluency in early-stage startup evaluation, especially around validating whether a product truly tests the business hypothesis and whether the underlying technology can scale significantly.”