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QYRAGY GmbH

100% Remote / Hannover

Fractional CTO Advisory for Smartjobr

Fractional Chief Technology Officer

May 2023 - November 2023
8 months
Freelance
Project work
100% Remote / Hannover

Case context

Overview

After product-market fit, Smartjobr needed technical strategy for the next growth phase. I advised on technology selection, team building, architecture decisions, and scaling direction without pretending to be a full-time CTO layer.

The value was decision quality: which technical risks needed visibility first, which team capabilities were missing next, and which platform choices could support growth. The fractional model kept advisory close to the bottlenecks without adding unnecessary management weight.

Responsibility

Activities

  • Technical strategy advisory: Assess architecture decisions, technology choices, and scaling options
  • Risk mitigation: Make technical risks, security/privacy questions, and growth risks visible
  • Team scaling: Clarify hiring strategy, missing capabilities, and useful team shape
  • Leadership advisory: Connect technical direction with business model, product maturity, and investment logic
  • Fractional CTO model: Regular decision and sparring formats without a fake full-time role
  • Platform readiness: Review performance, scalability, and user experience against the next growth phase

Operating mode

Methodology

  • Fractional CTO model: Focused sparring, decision support, and clear follow-ups instead of permanent role presence
  • Iterative advisory: Short feedback loops, fast reassessment, and focus on the most important current bottleneck
  • Strategic alignment: Keep technology, product, business model, and team capability in one decision picture
  • Risk-based approach: Name risks early, make options visible, and limit investment before confidence is high
  • Growth-focused: Prioritize scalability, hiring, and platform readiness along the next growth phase

Technical context

Technology stack

The tools are not the point by themselves. What matters is which system layers had to work together.

8Areas
23Technologies

Frontend

5
Next.jsReactTypeScriptJavaScriptPWA

Backend

3
Node.jsPythonFirebase

Data & AI

2
Natural Language Processing (NLP)k-Means algorithm

Databases & Storage

3
PostgreSQLAWS S3AWS RDS

DevOps

2
AWS LambdaAWS CloudFront

Messaging & Event Streaming

1
AWS SQS

Mobile

2
Android SDKiOS

Tools

5
SlackJiran8nZapierConfluence

Next step

If you want to explore similar leverage for hiring, collaboration, or a concrete transformation, this is the right starting point.

Send a short note about the situation you are trying to assess. I reply personally and will be direct about fit.