Senior Technology Leadership, Without Hiring a Full Time CTO
For founders who need someone to own architecture, hiring and delivery while they focus on the business. Led by Kannan Dharmalingam, with 16+ years building fintech and enterprise platforms, from bank grade compliance systems to products used by 50,000+ people.
Who This Is For
- Non-technical founders building their first product
- Startups after the MVP, growing from 2 developers to 10
- Businesses paying an agency and unsure whether they are getting value
- Founders preparing for investor technical due diligence
- Fintech startups that need payments, KYC or compliance done right
What You Get
Architecture review and design
A clear view of what to keep, what to fix and what to avoid, before it gets expensive.
Team structure and hiring
Role definitions, interview design and support on your first engineering hires.
Development process
Sprints, code reviews and a release pipeline your team can run without you.
Technical roadmap
A plan tied to business goals, so engineering effort goes where revenue is.
Vendor and agency management
Scope, review and hold external teams to the quality you are paying for.
Investor ready documentation
Architecture, security and scaling answers ready for technical due diligence.
How It Works: A 3 Month Setup
Products already on the cloud with a working team often need less time. After setup, you can continue on a lighter monthly advisory plan.
Month 1
Audit and roadmap
Review of code, cloud, team and costs, ending with a written 90 day plan.
Month 2
Build the foundation
Hire or restructure the team, set up processes and fix the biggest architecture risks.
Month 3
Hand over and scale
The team runs on its own, with documentation and a clear owner for every area.
Pricing
From ₹2 lakh a month
For the 3 month setup. The final fee depends on team size and scope. You get a fixed estimate after a free 30 minute call.
Experience You Can Check
- 16+ years in fintech and enterprise technology
- 7 years as Deputy CTO, growing an engineering team from 1 to 35 people
- Delivered platforms for leading banks, NBFCs and global enterprises
- Architected an AML transaction screening platform processing 300,000+ transactions a day
- Built a debt collection SaaS with 50,000+ active users and a multi-tenant loan origination system
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
Case Study
80%+
lower monthly cloud bill
GoInstaGood · Smart Vending Network
A cloud bill that grew with every new machine
Every vending machine was pinging the cloud every 10 seconds, whether anything had happened or not. We moved the network to event-driven communication, replaced a set of managed services with one right-sized server and added the operations tooling the team was missing. The monthly cloud bill came down by over 80%, with no features lost.
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Talk It Through First
Tell us where your product and team are today. In 30 minutes you get an honest view of what needs fixing first, whether or not we work together.