Technical Leadership: Architecture Reviews, Code Rescue and Fractional CTO
I review, fix and lead existing software for founders and small teams: architecture and code reviews with a written report, hands-on fixes for the risky parts, and part-time technical leadership when you need a senior decision-maker but not a full-time CTO. I run the same checks on my own products. A test pass on a school management SaaS found six real bugs in code already called done, one of which let a school read another school's data. A cross-tenant test on a hospital platform led me to rebuild 235 database links so the database itself refuses links between hospitals.
Problems I solve
- Your product works, but every new feature seems to break something else.
- The developer who built it has left, and nobody fully understands the code.
- You're about to raise money or sign a big customer, and you need to know what's really under the hood.
- You need someone senior to make technical decisions, but not a full-time CTO.
- Your team ships fast with AI coding tools, and you're not sure what's slipping through.
What you get
- Architecture and code review with a written report: what's risky, what's fine, and what to fix first
- Security and data-separation checks, including tests that try to reach other customers' data
- A prioritised fix plan with effort estimates
- Hands-on fixes for the risky parts, made structurally so they stay fixed
- Part-time technical leadership: architecture decisions, code review and roadmap, about 20 hours a week
- Written documentation, so the next developer can pick the work up
Proof: work I've shipped
- Bicitra EMS
A multi-tenant School Management SaaS built for Bangladesh, phone-first.
- HMS — Hospital Management SaaS
An MVP of a multi-tenant hospital management platform, from the front desk to the ward to the accounts office.
I also deploy and run what I build. DevOps for startups →
Stack
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- NestJS
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Laravel
- Docker
- Playwright
Further reading
Questions
- What does an architecture and code review include?
- I read the code and look at the architecture, security, infrastructure, performance and technical debt. You get a written report and a roadmap: what's risky, what's fine, and what to fix first, with rough effort for each item. It starts from $750, and it's a good first step before any bigger piece of work.
- Can you take over a codebase another developer built?
- Yes. I usually start with a paid review, so we both know what we're dealing with before we agree on the fix or build work.
- What is a fractional CTO, and do I need one?
- A senior engineer who makes the technical decisions for you part time: architecture, priorities, code review and the technical roadmap. It fits when you have a product and maybe a developer or two, but a full-time CTO would be too much. Part-time engineering or leadership starts from $4,500 a month for about 20 hours a week.
- Can you review code written with AI tools?
- Yes. I built a hospital management platform with an AI pair programmer, so I know where AI-written code tends to go wrong: it looks finished and passes the tests written alongside it. I check it with tests it can't bend, like running against a real database instead of mocks.
Start with a conversation
Tell me what you're building, and I'll reply with questions or a next step. See how we can work together.
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