What is a Fractional CTO?
A Fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) is a technology executive who works with multiple clients on a part-time basis. This provides access to expert technology guidance, without the overhead of hiring a full-time CTO.
A Fractional CTO will work with a client and their team - often remotely, but if the client and the Fractional CTO are based in the same city, it can also be an in-person arrangement.
For more detail on Fractional CTOs, see Founder Institute and CTO Academy.
Why use a Fractional CTO?
A Fractional CTO provides expert technology leadership to help you build a strong technology practice, even if you don't have a full-time CTO. Here are a few of the things a Fractional CTO can help with.​​
Build Product
A Fractional CTO can use their expertise to help you make the right technology choices to build your product.
Define Strategy
A Fractional CTO can provide expert insight to help define and execute your technology strategy.
Optimize Ops
A Fractional CTO can help you to optimize your IT operations, save costs, and run an efficient technology capability.
Cybersecurity
A Fractional CTO can help ensure that your technology landscape is secure and that your data is safe.
Success Stories
“I helped a startup to optimize their infrastructure and reduce their cloud hosting costs by 50%, saving hundreds of thousands of Rands per month.”
Fractional CTO South Africa Panel Member
“With my help, we introduced a solid disaster recovery strategy with detailed RPO and RTO targets that can be tested on a regular basis, to manage risk and protect clients' data.”
Fractional CTO South Africa Panel Member
“Dramatically improved the security posture of a FSP through maturing the DevSecOps processes within the organisation.”
Fractional CTO South Africa Panel Member
Fractional CTO Panel
The Fractional CTO South Africa panel consists of experts who have worked across a multitude of industries and technology stacks.
Industry Experience
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Banking
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Insurance
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FinTech
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AgriTech
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Telecom
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Manufacturing
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Hospitality
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Healthcare
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​Retail
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Startup Accelerators / VCs
Technology
Languages
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Java
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C# .NET
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Python
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TypeScript
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PHP
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Frameworks
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Angular
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Spring
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Laravel
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Livewire
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Cloud Providers
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Microsoft Azure
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AWS
Databases
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MySQL
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Postgres
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MongoDB
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Microsoft SQL Server
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Patterns & Approaches
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Microservices
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APIs
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Monolith
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DevOps
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CI/CD
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Test-Driven Development