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Sam P.

Fractional CTO · AI Engineer · Technical Advisor

The bridge between business and technology.
I translate what the business needs into software and AI that gets built, shipped, and scaled.

What I do

Founders and leadership teams bring me in when they need someone who can hold a P&L conversation and a system-design conversation in the same breath. I translate commercial goals into technical decisions, and technical realities back into terms the business can act on. I've done both sides for real: built one company's entire technology function from zero and ran it for over seven years, and taken products from whiteboard to production as a founder and fractional CTO. These days that increasingly means a practical AI strategy, knowing where models create real leverage and where they don't. Engagements range from a few days a month of advisory to hands-on lead-developer work through a critical build. Either way, the job is the same: make sure the right thing gets built, built well, and shipped on time.

How I help

🤖 AI Strategy & Integration
Cut through the hype to where AI actually moves the needle, then ship it: LLM-powered features, RAG and retrieval systems, agents, and automation that holds up in production.

🧭 Technical Strategy & Architecture
Turn product goals into a pragmatic technical roadmap and an architecture that still holds up a year later.

👥 Team & Hiring
Build and level up engineering teams: hiring plans, interview processes, and the standards that keep quality high as you grow.

🔍 Technical Due Diligence
Codebase, team, and architecture assessments for founders and investors ahead of a raise, acquisition, or major bet.

🚀 Delivery & Execution
Step in hands-on to unblock a stalled build, ship a critical release, or stand up the processes that make delivery predictable.

Areas of depth

LangChain PyTorch Hugging Face
TypeScript Node.js React Python
PostgreSQL AWS Docker Kubernetes

Currently taking on a limited number of fractional engagements.

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