Fractional Senior Engineer
For the small business that built or bought something real and needs senior hands to keep it alive — without hiring the engineer it can't yet justify.
A day a week of an engineer who can hold the whole stack at once — the BGP session and the deploy pipeline, the firewall policy and the application code, the backup job and the reason it must never run on the standby. Most fractional arrangements sell availability. This one sells range: thirteen years of production network operations plus shipped product engineering, so the same person who unsticks your infrastructure question can also just fix the code.
What you get
Steady output
A reliable slice of senior capacity each week — features shipped, automation built, fires put out — without the overhead of a hire.
Breadth
Product, AI, automation, data, and infrastructure from one person, instead of three specialists you can't yet justify.
Flexibility
Scale up when there's a push, down when there isn't. No severance, no ramp, no lock-in.
Price
Care Plan
Keeps what exists running: monitoring, failures handled, small fixes. No new features.
scope cap · what was built; no new features
Fractional — 1 day/week
Steady senior capability, with a monthly written status.
scope cap · ~1 day/week
On-call only
An escalation path with a defined response window. No scheduled work.
scope cap · response window only; incidents beyond 2/mo become a line item
Work beyond a scope cap is a separate line item at its published price, agreed before it starts — that is what keeps a fixed price fixed. No hourly billing. See every line item →
How I work
You work directly with me — the person who builds it also runs it. No account managers, no handoffs, no offshore team.
FAQ
How many hours is a fractional engagement?
Typically around a day a week on a monthly retainer, scaled to what you actually need.
What can you cover?
Product and MVP work, AI integration, automation, data pipelines, DevOps, and infrastructure — broad senior coverage from one person.
Can it convert to more hours later?
Yes — retainers scale up for a build push and back down afterward, so you only pay for what you need.