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Michael Migdol, Fractional CTO, offering technical leadership and AI solutions for software companies and growing businesses

Fractional CTO &Technical Leadershipfor Software Companies

Helping businesses run better. Helping technology companies build better.

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Business Solutions Technical Leadership AI Solutions

Is important work still tracked in emails, Post-its, whiteboards, and your employees’ heads?

When requests, handoffs, status, and follow-up live in scattered places, the business gets harder to see and harder to run.

Common friction

  • Repeated data entry
  • Disconnected tools
  • Unclear work status
  • Process knowledge stuck with one person

What I build

  • Work order systems
  • Client portals
  • Reporting dashboards
  • CRM and operations integrations
  • Internal admin tools

AI where useful

  • Document processing
  • Structured intake and routing
  • Internal copilots
  • Process automation

Have a workflow that is harder than it should be?

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A better way to run the work

Most businesses follow some variation of this workflow. The opportunity is rarely a missing website. It is usually the manual work, disconnected systems, and lack of visibility that occur between these stages.

Operational workflow diagram showing common friction points for growing businesses, including duplicate data entry, unclear ownership, manual handoffs, and delayed billing

Technical leadership for software companies

Senior engineering leadership for architecture, delivery, team execution, and technical decisions at moments of growth, change, or complexity.

Fractional CTO

Senior technical leadership and decision-making for companies that need executive-level direction without a full-time hire.

Software Architecture

System design and reliability decisions for teams whose foundation needs to hold up under growth, not just launch day.

Zero to One Development

Concept to working software, with the architecture choices made deliberately instead of accidentally.

Development Leadership

Code reviews, sprint planning, and mentoring that keep teams shipping consistently, not just busy.

Engineering Operations

Deployment, monitoring, and incident response built so the system stays up without you in the room.

Technology Strategy

Clear build, buy, fix, or automate decisions, sequenced so the team isn't guessing what's next.

AI solutions where they create practical value

Senior technical judgment applied to adoption, not features bolted on because the technology is available.

AI-based Products

Recommendation engines, smart defaults, personalization layers, in-product assistants, and decision support built into portals, platforms, or internal systems.

Custom AI Tools

Focused tools for documents, knowledge, intake, extraction, analysis, and support work, including agentic workflows for coding and development tasks. Built around a specific task, dataset, or team workflow, with senior engineering judgment guiding the design.

Agentic Processes

Agents that run operations: triage, research, classification, routing, document review, follow-up, and handoffs in repeatable business processes.

Experience as evidence

Work across complex workflows, software architecture, team leadership, operational systems, and business outcomes.

Early-stage platform leadership

Joined as employee #3 at an early-stage speech technology company and helped scale it past 130 employees within a year. Led the platform team responsible for the core telephony, voice recognition, and developer infrastructure, work that was instrumental to a later acquisition valued at $180 million.

  • Employee #3
  • Platform team leadership
  • $180M acquisition

Platform modernization

Spent seven years as Director of Engineering, modernizing a legacy platform and leading a distributed team of 20+ across offshore and onshore engineering.

  • 7-year tenure
  • 20+ person team
  • Distributed leadership

SaaS platform and live operations

Co-founded a mobile engagement startup, then led its engineering and product following an acquisition, deploying the platform into large-scale live venues including professional sports arenas and major resort properties.

  • Co-founder
  • Acquired
  • Enterprise deployments

Growth-stage product engineering

Joined as an early engineer on a product that raised a $47M Series A, building platform and data systems that scaled with the company's growth.

  • Early-stage scaling
  • Data platform
  • Series A growth

Services

Practical services that help you build, improve, and scale.

Business Solutions

Operational systems for businesses where spreadsheets, email, and disconnected tools are starting to strain.

Workflow Automation

Turn manual business processes into repeatable systems.

Systems Integration

Connect disconnected tools and eliminate duplicate work.

Custom Software

Build software around the way your business actually works.

AI Solutions

Apply AI where it creates measurable business value.

Technical Leadership

Senior engineering leadership for architecture, delivery, team execution, and technical decisions.

Fractional CTO

Engineering leadership without a full-time executive hire.

Software Architecture

Design systems that are scalable, maintainable, and reliable.

Technology Strategy

Align technology investments with business goals.

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