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Get seasoned CTO expertise without the full-time cost. Our Virtual CTO service accelerates strategy, delivery, and innovation in software, cloud, and DevOps — helping your organisation stay ahead.

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Seasoned technology leadership to accelerate delivery, reduce risk, and modernise your stack — without the cost or lead time of a full-time hire.

CTO as a Service (Fractional CTO)

Hiring a full-time CTO can take months and cost six figures — while delivery slows, priorities drift, and technology debt grows. CTO as a Service gives you senior leadership quickly, so your team can make confident decisions and ship with momentum.

We work alongside founders, CEOs, and engineering leads to shape strategy, stabilise delivery, and improve how you plan, build, and run software. That can mean modernising your platform, setting up stronger engineering practices, guiding cloud migration, or unblocking delivery with practical DevOps improvements.

You’ll get hands-on leadership backed by real delivery experience across software, cloud, and security. If you want a clear plan, fast starts, and measured progress, talk to the team and we’ll outline an engagement that fits your goals.

Trusted leadership, proven delivery

Evidence you can point to when you’re asking the business to back the plan.

4.9/5 average rating
Consistently high satisfaction across delivery and advisory engagements.
Trusted by shipping teams
Work delivered with teams at Markel, LVMH Digital, and others.
Leadership profile
Tas Skoudros — 20+ years leading complex software, cloud, and DevOps programmes across retail, finance, healthcare, and open source.
Outcomes that last
Modernisation, migration, and operating-model improvements designed to be owned by your team, not locked to a vendor.

Areas of focus

Pick the outcomes you need now — we’ll shape the engagement around them.

Technology modernisation

Refresh architecture and tooling with a clear roadmap for cloud, hybrid, or on-prem.

Software delivery

Improve planning, engineering standards, and automation to reduce cycle time.

Cloud migration and optimisation

Migrate safely, control costs, and improve reliability while shifting Capex to Opex.

Hiring and team leadership

Build the right team shape, hiring plan, and leadership cadence for execution.

Compliance and governance

Align security and governance (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC 2) without slowing delivery.

What you get

Outcome-focused delivery, with the option of a managed service.

Clear direction, fast

Align priorities, architecture decisions, and delivery plans within days, not quarters.

Delivery system improvements

Strengthen planning, CI/CD, release flow, and operational habits to ship reliably.

Cloud and platform leadership

Make pragmatic choices on cloud, hybrid, and platform design with cost and reliability in mind.

Team and leadership support

Hiring plans, role clarity, coaching, and operating rhythms for sustainable execution.

Governance without drag

Practical security and compliance alignment (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC 2) that supports delivery.

Engagement models

Choose fractional, interim, or advisory — then scale up or down as needs change.

Fractional CTO (ongoing)

1–3 days per week leadership, priorities, and delivery oversight.

Interim CTO (time-boxed)

Temporary leadership during a transition, restructure, or high-stakes delivery period.

Strategy sprint (2–4 weeks)

Rapid assessment, roadmap, and business case with clear next steps.

Board / exec advisory

Monthly cadence for strategic guidance, risk management, and decision support.

How it works

Discovery and goals

Understand constraints, risks, and success measures with stakeholders.

Assessment

Review delivery flow, architecture, cloud posture, and team operating model.

Plan and priorities

Create a roadmap: what to change now, next, and later — with owners and timelines.

Execution and coaching

Lead delivery improvements and support teams to adopt new ways of working.

Governance and reporting

Simple, repeatable updates on progress, risk, spend, and outcomes.

Tooling and platforms we work across

We meet you where you are — then rationalise and improve the stack over time.

Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, plus hybrid/on-prem where required.
Delivery and CI/CD: GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, build pipelines, release automation.
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm, GitOps patterns where appropriate.
Kubernetes and containers: Cluster strategy, workloads, platform guardrails, operations.
Observability and reliability: Metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs, incident practices.

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