Fractional CTO
Executive technology leadership for companies that need a clear strategy, stronger engineering execution, architectural judgment, and a credible partner to the CEO, board, and investors.
Strategy · Systems · Software
Technology leadership from strategy through shipped software.
Fractional CTO leadership, AI enablement, and hands-on engineering for companies navigating growth, transformation, or a difficult technical inflection point.
What we do
Leadership and delivery, without the gap between them.
Engage for a focused initiative, ongoing executive support, or a difficult build that needs senior hands on the work.
AI enablement
Move from scattered experiments to useful, governed adoption. We identify high-value workflows, select tools and models, build the operating approach, and help teams adopt AI in their daily work.
Technology consulting
Independent guidance on architecture, cloud, platforms, developer productivity, operating models, technical due diligence, and the decisions that become expensive when deferred.
Hands-on engineering
Senior implementation when the work cannot stop at a deck: prototypes, integrations, internal platforms, AI systems, production software, and the foundations that make them maintainable.
How we work
Operate at every altitude.
Business first
Technology choices start with the outcome: growth, speed, reliability, cost, customer experience, or organizational leverage.
Pragmatic by design
We meet the company where it is, simplify before adding machinery, and make the smallest sound move that creates momentum.
Capability that stays
The goal is not dependency. We build systems, practices, and confidence your team can carry forward.
Experience
Operator judgment. Builder instincts. Investor perspective.
The perspective behind the work comes from leading engineering and architecture at scale, building products firsthand, serving on boards, and evaluating companies and technology as a venture and angel investor.
1,300+people enabled with AI tools
50%reduction in PR lead time
700engineers under technical direction
300+ PBplatform scale delivered
Technology executive
Leadership across AI, developer productivity, architecture, infrastructure, cloud transformation, customer identity, payments, and engineering organizations operating at global scale.
Board director & advisor
Board-level experience connecting product and technology decisions to company strategy, risk, operating leverage, and durable enterprise value.
VC & angel investor
An investor’s view of market opportunity, technical defensibility, team capability, capital efficiency, and what a company must prove to reach its next stage.
We build, too
Our own products keep us honest.
Stottlemyer Ventures also designs and publishes software, including Cosmic Explorer, an educational space experience for iPhone and iPad.
Let’s work together
What are you trying to move?
If the strategy is unclear, the team is stuck, or the opportunity is moving faster than your current capacity, let’s talk.
hello@stottlemyer.io