CTO as a service

A founder led company providing top quality Fractional CTO services at affordable costs. Hiring a CTO is one of the most crucial decisions for a startup. Apart from taking crucial design decisions about tech stack and system architecture that serve as the foundation for a product, a CTO ensures that the technology is aligned with business objectives. Roadmap planning, hiring the right team, establishing engineering processes as well as removing technical roadblocks by solving the toughest challenges such as performance, security and integrations, a CTO brings a wealth of experience and expertise and act as a pillar.

Meet the Founder

With 19+ years of experience across multiple industries and technology stacks, Mohammad Azhar has seen the technology industry evolve over the last couple of decades. He is a hands on engineer and architect with a vast experience across multiple technologies and has built large scale products from the ground up for both enterprises and startups. He specializes in helping startups navigate the complex, ever evolving technical landscape with ROI focused technology, design and engineering , enabling them to punch above their weight.

19 +

Years of Product Engineering

100,000 +

Businesses Impacted

32 +

Technologies Mastered

Our Work

SaaS

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An award winning multi-tenant restaurant management platform. It's an enterprise-grade, large scale omnichannel platform used by multi outlet restaurants and features advanced centralised catalog management, inventory management, Sales and CRM. The platform offers a two way seamless integration with multiple food aggregators for syncing catalog, orders, inventory and reservations. Integrates with multiple payment providers for payments and also with 3rd party logistics providers. Works on mobile, browser, desktop and tablet. It provides a seamless omnichannel experience for customers, front office as well as third party aggregators and also comes with a suite of tools to manage business effectively with back-office features.

SaaS, AI, Gen AI

ML Ops for visual data

A large scale SaaS based AI platform for visual data to help data science teams improve model accuracy. It is used to curate, synthesize and label visual data such as images and videos. It has advanced capabilities such as clustering, similarity search, text to image search, saliency maps, bounding boxes and segments for data curation and uses Gen AI for automatic labelling of data and data synthesis to accelerate model training. Large scale data challenges are handled at each layer from ingestion to database queries, API's and UI to give a smooth experience to the end users. Through it's intuitive interface, enterprise level security and compliances as well as high performance, it is the choice of data platform for startups and enterprises alike.

CTO's are highly experienced, technical as well as business oriented. They solve some of the toughest and most critical technical challenges while ensuring that technology execution is aligned with the business needs. A fractional CTO gives you the power of a CTO at a fraction of the cost.

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Fractional CTO Services We Offer

CTO Advisory

A lot of thought and knowledge goes into building the foundation of your project. CTO advisory services can help you choose the right tech stack, build a roadmap, a high level design and also layout detailed functional requirements that can serve as the foundation for you to build a product reliably and predictably.

Fractional CTO

Hiring a full time CTO can be costly and can be a drain on a startup's funds. For a lot of startups, a full time CTO might also be an overkill, since regular day to day activities might not require a CTO's intervention. A fractional CTO being part-time, steps in to solve your critical design and development challenges at a fraction of the cost!

On Demand CTO

An on Demand CTO service involves hiring a CTO on an On-Demand basis. Sometimes there are technical roadblocks, critical performance issues, third party integrations, decisions related to scaling up, compliances etc. An experienced CTO can help navigate such tough challenges at a fraction of the cost.

Temporary CTO

A temporary or interim CTO service can be used to fill in the gap between a CTO leaving an organisation and another full time CTO getting hired.

Virtual CTO

Hiring a CTO can be a daunting process, since it is a crucial decision and CTO's are tough to find. In the meanwhile, a virtual CTO can fill the gap and make sure that progress still gets made. The virtual CTO will also be able to help with hiring a full time CTO.

Key CTO responsibilities

System Design and Architecture

A CTO can help with building the overall technical strategy of a startup that aligns with business objectives. This includes the choices of technology, building a system arechitecture, as well as other crucial decisions for ensuring optimal market delivery while addressing crucial aspects such as security and performance.

Roadmap, budget and timelines

A CTO works as a strategic leader that can blend business requirements with the right technology to come up with an optimised roadmap with realistic budgets and timelines. A CTO is a strategic technologist that can help chalk out the most optimal execution plan based on business needs and financial constraints, while keeping a futuristic outlook for scaling.

Build an engineering team and culture

Along with providing the crucial know how for building a technology product, a virtual CTO can also help by building the most appropriate technology team with the right mix of skills and culture and can also help establish a culture of engineering excellence. Not having the right team is often considered to be one of the most widespread causes of startup failure. A CTO's experience in this regard can be invaluable.

Removing roadblocks

Performance, Security, Scalability and other tough technical challenges can be hard to handle for even some highly experienced engineers. An On Demand CTO can leverage their experience to assist with removing such roadblocks.

Ensure top quality output

A CTO is strategic, business oriented and technical. A rare blend that acts as a bridge between the engineering team and the business to ensure top quality output.A fractional CTO helps startups afford this crucial skill at a fraction of the cost.

Balancing the long term quality and the short term cost and timeline aspects is an art. We have experience building enterprise-grade products with an agile startup mindset to intricately balance the two and carve out a product designed for success.

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Our Engagement Models

CTO as a Service

An on-demand, experienced technologist to guide you through the complex tech landscape with expert know-how at a fraction of the cost.

Dedicated team & Team Extension

One or more experts or a team of experts that integrate seamlessly with your existing team and are managed by you.

Project-based Model

A fully managed project with a fixed timeline, cost and resources.

What our Clients Say

"Great service! The team has been committed to delivering high-quality work on time. They have been able to work through ambiguity and come up with very high quality design, solution and code."

Ajith Kumar B

Head of Engineering - Akridata

"Azhar and team are technically sound and follow best practices. But most importantly, they have a knack for simplifying complexity and eventually building superior products with reduced cost and timelines. They were also very flexible and accommodating to changes."

Sandeep Sharma

Principal Architect - Aarna

"Amazing attention to detail and support. The team is enthusiastic, quick and always willing to go the extra mile. They are highly knowledgable, passionate and work like partners."

Poorna Subhash P

VP of Engineering - Dotpe

Get Started Today

1. Reach Out

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2. Get a Consultation

A free consultation with a CTO for a 20,000 foot overview of what it would take to build your solution.

3. Get a Cost Estimate

Detailed estimation for cost based on a breakup of requirements, timelines and execution plan.

4. Project Kickoff

Once the project is signed off, we bring in top quality engineering leaders and developers to get your project off the ground.

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