Insights & Case Studies
From the Field
Real lessons from real transformations. Deep dives into the technical and organizational challenges I've helped companies navigate.
Busfactor: The Audit I Run as a Fractional CTO, Now Self-Serve
I run about 50 direct reports as CTO with no middle layer, and things slipped. The tools that could have caught it cost too much, so I built the read myself. Why I built Busfactor, what it shows, and how I use it in fractional CTO audits.
Building Bazarnicek: One Search Across Every Czech Second-Hand Market
Bazarnicek is a friendly meta-search for the Czech second-hand market: one search across 20+ classifieds — Bazoš, Sbazar, Aukro, Vinted, Facebook Marketplace and more — with price intelligence and watchdog alerts, sending motivated buyers straight to the original listings. Here is what it is, what it does, and the engineering challenges behind making 20+ marketplaces feel like one calm product.
Engineering Leadership Through Extreme Change
How I led 75% of Deepnote's engineering organization through restructuring, layoffs, and rapid expansion while maintaining velocity and rebuilding trust.
Strategic Alignment Saves Critical Refactor at Realpad
As Fractional CTO for Realpad, I conducted a comprehensive strategic audit that uncovered critical misalignments threatening a 90k EUR refactoring project. Through skip-level interviews and rigorous analysis, we avoided a potential disaster and established the foundation for sustainable engineering leadership.
Empowering Purple Technology with Next-Gen AI Workflows
How I helped Purple Technology break through the "Good Enough" plateau by transforming their engineering team from using AI as a helper tool to deploying it as an agentic partner that automates the entire Linear-to-PR pipeline.
Decoupling 50+ Insurance Applications Seamlessly
How I architected and implemented a distributed Microfrontend strategy at VIG that enabled 50+ applications to operate independently while maintaining a seamless single-application experience for users.
The Turnaround Playbook
A six-phase framework for diagnosing and fixing stalled engineering teams - including how to win over the people who experience your changes as an attack on them.
Doubling Product Velocity at Deepnote Through Pragmatic Metrics
As Head of Engineering at Deepnote, I faced a critical challenge: despite our talent, our product velocity was too slow. This is the story of how I stopped chasing vanity metrics, built trust with my team, and implemented a system that doubled our throughput.
Technical Debt as Strategic Asset
Not all technical debt is bad. How to categorize, prioritize, and strategically manage it - including the collaboration engine at Deepnote that went from smart bet to architectural tax.
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