Developer-first SaaS API for EU VAT validation via VIES with Redis caching, change monitoring, and webhook notifications.
Iurii Leads: Fractional CTO
Your technical co-founder without the equity. I step into the CTO role — setting architecture, making technology decisions, and keeping your team on track.
Based in Finland (UTC+2) · VAT-registered FI29845875 · Respond within 24 hours
Most early-stage companies don't need a full-time CTO — they need someone senior enough to make the right technical calls, without the €150k salary. That's what a fractional CTO does: real technical leadership, on a schedule that matches your stage. Based in Finland (UTC+2). I work with companies across the Nordics and EU.
I'm based in Lappeenranta, Finland, and I've been the sole technical decision-maker at a Finnish company for 12 years — architecture, hiring, vendors, infrastructure, everything. I know what it costs when those decisions go wrong, and how to get them right the first time.
This isn't consulting from a distance. I'm involved weekly: in your team calls, reviewing your architecture, unblocking your engineers, and making sure the technology serves the business — not the other way around.
What's included
- Technology strategy and quarterly roadmap
- Architecture decisions and code reviews
- Engineering team structure and hiring support
- Vendor and tool evaluation and selection
- Technical due diligence for investors or acquirers
- Weekly involvement — calls, reviews, decisions
How I approach this
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Technical audit
I start by understanding what's there: codebase, infrastructure, team, tooling. No assumptions — just a clear picture of where things stand.
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Strategy alignment
We define what the technology needs to achieve in the next 3, 6, and 12 months — and what it needs to stop doing.
03
Ongoing leadership
Weekly involvement: team syncs, architecture reviews, escalation point for hard decisions. I write code when it matters.
04
Knowledge transfer
Everything is documented as we go. When you're ready to bring someone permanent on board, the handover is clean.
Relevant projects
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i18n B2B e-commerce platform for waterless urinal products across 32 European countries with automated VAT handling, PDF invoicing, and CRM integration.
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What Clients Say
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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.
Kasper Holm 🇩🇰
CEO
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I'm a non-technical founder and I'd been making technology decisions by guessing, which was getting expensive.
Matteo Conti 🇮🇹
Founder
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We had a small in-house dev team and no one senior enough to make the hard architectural calls. Hiring a full-time CTO didn't make sense at our stage, so we brought Iurii in two days a week.
Joachim Weber 🇩🇪
CEO
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