Fractional CTO Leadership
Embedded executive technology leadership. Decision authority, governance discipline, and execution momentum without a full-time hire.
Explore Fractional CTO Services →Executive Technology Leadership
Your technology is making decisions you have not authorized.
Unclear ownership does not stay unclear. It becomes a codebase nobody fully understands, a vendor nobody can exit, and a conversation you are not ready to have with the next investor who asks.
30 YEARS BUILDING AND LEADING TECHNOLOGY
Founders · CEOs · Co-Founders · Growth-Stage Companies · First Technical Hires · Series A and Beyond
You probably already feel one of these.
- Your best engineer made every early technical decision and now nobody else fully understands the system.
- Something that should take a week keeps taking three. Nobody can explain why.
- A prospect or investor asked a technology question you could not answer without turning to your engineer.
- You have been meaning to clean up the architecture for six months. Nothing has changed.
- You are about to make a significant technology hire and you are not sure how to evaluate them.
- Growth is accelerating and you have a quiet feeling the foundation was not built for this.
What it costs to leave it unresolved
Stalled technology decisions create silent commitments. Vendor timelines advance. Spend continues. The organization becomes more dependent on the current state. The reset becomes more expensive every quarter the situation drifts. Clarity restores leverage.
What we do
Technical Engagements
Hands-on architecture, infrastructure assessment, and senior engineering leadership for organizations that need execution, not just advisory.
See Technical Engagements →Diagnostic Sessions
Focused executive diagnostics that isolate the structural issue, align ownership, and produce a defensible decision path within days.
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Founder
Michael Snyder
30 years building and leading enterprise infrastructure. Former Global Practice Lead at Dell Technologies. I have seen what happens when technology decisions drift without ownership at every level, and what it takes to fix it. Today I run fractional CTO engagements for executives navigating that exact gap.
Read more about Michael →What leaders say
"Michael is one of the strongest problem solvers I have worked with. He consistently turned complex IT challenges into architectures that supported growth. His humility and curiosity raised the technical capability of the teams around him."
"Michael did the hard work of evaluating multiple vendors and solution types, aligning technical requirements with financial realities, and shaping a solution his team could operate with confidence. His insight and leadership were essential."
Three paths depending on what is true right now.
Pick the one that matches your situation. If none fit exactly, the intro call clarifies fit in 30 minutes.