Fractional CTO & Technical Advisor

Your team is busy.Deadlines keep slipping.Nobody can clearly say what's actually broken.

I help founders cut through the noise, find the real problem, and get their team shipping again.

18+ years of building and rescuing software teams taught me that urgency is expensive and motion is not progress. I bring the diagnostic skill to tell the difference.

Josh Harington

How I Help

I partner with founders and teams who want clarity and momentum.
Not noise, not guesswork, and not hope-as-a-strategy.

Recommended First Step

Delivery Diagnostic

Not sure what's broken? I'll look at your team, process, and product - and tell you what's actually going wrong and what to fix first.

Best for

Teams that are busy but nothing ships.

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Fractional CTO Advisory

Ongoing senior technical guidance for founders who need a trusted advisor - not another full-time hire. Strategy calls, async support, and honest feedback.

Best for

Founders who need a senior technical partner.

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Team & Process Recovery

When your team is stuck in firefighting mode and deadlines keep slipping, I help reset how decisions get made and how work flows - without blowing everything up.

Best for

Chronic firefighting, morale drops, slipping roadmaps.

Tell me what's going on
Currently accepting projects

Selected Work

Real problems. Clear outcomes. A few stories from recent projects.

Resilience · Event-Sourced Architecture · Technical Leadership
Event sourcingNext.jsGraphQLAWSInfrastructureTechnical leadership

Music Startup: From Crisis to Full Rebuild in 4 Months

A music startup's DJ platform was unstable and the company was burning through runway. After initial stabilisation, layoffs hit - leaving me as the only full-time developer with the entire platform to rebuild from the ground up.

Real-Time Systems · High-Stakes Automation · Honest Failure
Real-time systemsDeep-techAutomationCrypto

Trading Platform: $4.3M AUM in 35 Days - Then What Went Wrong

We wanted to build a trading bot platform for users with disposable crypto who wanted steady, automated growth - not moonshot chasing. The technical challenge was real-time execution at scale with reliable risk controls.

Platform Rescue · Full Rebuild · High-Traffic Systems
Platform architectureFull rebuildHigh-traffic systems

Education Platform: Crashing at 200 Users → 150k Daily Active

A crypto education platform built on LearnDash/WordPress was crashing with just 200 concurrent users. Launch was imminent, the audience was growing fast, and the platform couldn't handle it.

Something feels off with your team?
Let's figure it out.

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