Fractional CTO · Technical Product Leadership
I help early-stage SaaS founders turn an idea — or an AI-built prototype — into a product real users can trust. Twenty-five years building from zero to one, equally at home setting product direction and writing the code.
Early-stage SaaS · Fintech · Marketplaces · AI products
The gap I close
Today's tools make a working prototype almost effortless. What they don't do is make it secure, scalable, and resilient when real users — and real money — arrive. That's the part that sinks projects, and it's exactly where decades of shipping production software pays off.
Most AI-generated codebases ship with at least one critical vulnerability. I find them before your users — or an attacker — do.
Data models, race conditions, and architecture choices that work in a demo and quietly become expensive. I catch them while they're cheap to fix.
The most valuable call is often what not to build. Senior product and technical judgment, so you spend your runway on what matters.
How we work together
Most founders start with an audit to get the lay of the land, then move into a build or an ongoing partnership. No long contracts; clear scope and a fixed price up front.
For founders who've built with AI or no-code and want to know what's solid, what's risky, and what to do next.
For founders who need a real product built right the first time — fast, secure, and ready to grow.
For founders who want senior technical judgment on call — without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
Selected work
Built the fintech MVP in six weeks, then scaled the platform and the engineering team behind it. The work supported $16.4M in venture funding.
Built the entire initial product myself as the first technical hire. It went on to a TSXV public listing — multi-tenant architecture and complex data at its core.
Building a white-label, AI-powered itinerary platform for travel operators today — a modern AI product architecture end to end.
What people say
Jeremy is preternaturally gifted at what he does, which is to synthesize business requirements and implement them in an active system, in real time. It's spooky, and it's a massive business advantage.
I can always count on you to come up with a clever solution to a challenge. You're able to quickly draw on your knowledge and propose solutions that aren't obvious to others.
A swiss-army knife. Seems to always be a valuable contributor, no matter what the initiative is.
Jeremy sees company change in multiple lenses, he separates changes based on transformational and incremental with consideration to available resources, timing, and setting up teams for success as we scale.
About
For 25 years I've built SaaS products from the ground up — as a founding engineer, a first technical hire, and a technical co-founder. I've built the thing, scaled the thing, and been the one responsible when real users depend on it.
That combination is the point. I can set product direction and write the code that delivers it: 20 years in Laravel and PHP, plus multi-tenant architecture, real-time systems, and AI/RAG. Founders bring me in when the hardest problems sit exactly where product vision meets technical reality — and tell them the truth about both.
Start a conversation
Whether you're stuck on something half-built or deciding what to build at all, a short call will tell us both whether I can help. No pitch — just a straight read on where you stand.