Iurii Leads: Fractional CTO

We'd just raised and needed to double the engineering team fast, but nobody internally had hired at that scale or owned the architecture decisions that came with it. A full-time CTO was a six-month search we didn't have time for. Iurii held the role two days a week in the meantime — he set up the interview loop, sat in on the senior candidates, killed a rewrite the team was quietly drifting toward, and made the infrastructure call before it turned into a fire. When we finally hired someone permanent the handover took a week because everything was already documented. He ran it like an owner, not a consultant billing hours.

I'm a non-technical founder and I'd been making technology decisions by guessing, which was getting expensive. Iurii joined as a fractional CTO one day a week and the difference was immediate — he set up a sane roadmap, vetted two contractors I was about to overpay, and translated what the dev team was telling me into plain language so I could actually make calls. He's not there to write all the code; he's there so I stop making the wrong bets.