Technology leadership for startups

You built the product.
Let’s build what comes next.

From your first MVP to your next stage of growth. Get experienced, hands-on technical leadership to make your product secure, reliable, and ready to scale.

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Work directly with Amine Nabi, CTO of BNMA. 30+ years in software.

Three ways to work together

The right level of leadership.
For the stage you’re at.

You may have developers, an agency, or a product you built yourself. Choose the level of ownership you need, without hiring a full-time CTO.

01 / Guidance & oversight

Technical Advisor

$4,000/ month

You have people building the product. Get an experienced technical leader reviewing the work and helping you make better decisions.

Discuss technical advisory
  • Weekly technical working session
  • Weekly GitHub and codebase review
  • Architecture and technical decision support
  • Security, privacy, and scalability review
  • Risk prioritization and roadmap input
I guide. Your team implements.I identify issues and recommend solutions. Your team owns implementation, deployment, remediation, and delivery.
Explore the advisory scope

What I review and guide

  • Application architecture and major technical changes
  • Security, privacy, scalability, and maintainability
  • Infrastructure, database, and API design
  • Integration strategy and build-versus-buy decisions
  • Technical debt, risks, and priorities
  • Product roadmap and technical direction

Best for your startup if

  • You already have developers, an agency, or an offshore team
  • You are a non-technical founder who wants an independent perspective
  • You need someone experienced reviewing architecture and code
  • You want to catch problems before they become expensive to reverse
  • You need help making decisions while your team builds the product

02 / Hands-on technical ownership

Technical Lead

$12,000/ month

You need someone to own the technology, get into the code, and make the platform work in production. A hands-on architect and engineer.

Discuss technical leadership
  • Architecture and production code ownership
  • Product capabilities, APIs, and integrations
  • Infrastructure, deployment, and CI/CD
  • Security, monitoring, backups, and recovery
  • Technical roadmap and developer coordination
I own the technical execution.Built around ownership and outcomes, not a fixed bucket of hours. I take responsibility for getting the technical work done.
Explore the technical lead scope

Architecture & engineering

  • Own application, frontend, and mobile architecture
  • Write and review production code and build product capabilities
  • Improve existing systems and address technical debt
  • Own backend services, APIs, the data layer, and integrations

Production & operations

  • Establish development, staging, and production environments
  • Implement CI/CD and production infrastructure
  • Set up monitoring, logging, alerts, and operational visibility
  • Implement backups and recovery procedures
  • Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability
  • Maintain and evolve the platform after launch

Security & delivery

  • Implement security controls and protect sensitive data
  • Improve authentication, authorization, secrets, and access management
  • Implement rate limiting and API protections where needed
  • Translate product requirements into a technical roadmap
  • Coordinate developers, contractors, agencies, and technical vendors
  • Establish development standards

Best for your startup if

Your MVP needs to be hardened for production, you lack a senior architect/engineer, or you need someone who can make the decisions and implement them. This also fits teams that need senior technical execution without a full-time hire.

03 / Company-level leadership

Fractional CTO

$15,000/ month

You need a technology leader alongside the founder. Someone to own the technology function as well as the codebase.

Discuss a fractional CTO
  • Everything in the Technical Lead engagement
  • Product strategy and technology direction
  • Security, privacy, and compliance readiness
  • Customer, partner, and investor support
  • Engineering hiring and team leadership
I own the technology function.Executive leadership with hands-on architecture and engineering, connecting technical decisions to the company’s future.
Explore the fractional CTO scope

Technology ownership

Architecture, engineering, infrastructure, security, data and integration strategy, development standards, reliability, technical risk, scalability, maintainability, technology selection, and long-term technical evolution.

Product strategy

Work directly with founders and product leadership on product direction, feature priorities, MVP decisions, customer workflows, platform capabilities, feasibility, cost and complexity tradeoffs, roadmap sequencing, and build-versus-buy decisions.

Security, privacy & compliance

Turn requirements into concrete engineering decisions: data protection, authentication, role-based access, encryption, audit logging, secrets management, vendor security, backup and recovery, privacy requirements, security questionnaires, technical policies, and compliance readiness. Coordinate with legal, compliance, security, or regulatory specialists where needed.

Customers, partners & investors

Represent the technology side in enterprise customer conversations, technical sales, partner meetings, vendor negotiations, security reviews, architecture discussions, product demonstrations, investor meetings, technical due diligence, and board-level discussions.

Fundraising & due diligence

Prepare technical pitch materials, architecture summaries, product and technology narratives, roadmaps, and diligence responses. Review technical claims and identify risks before they surface in diligence.

I support the technical side of fundraising. The founder remains responsible for investor outreach.

Engineering team & hiring

Determine when to hire, define roles and hiring profiles, interview candidates, evaluate agencies and contractors, select development resources, onboard engineers, establish standards, mentor the team, and define ownership as the organization grows.

Founder-level technology support

Ongoing support for decisions about scope, feasibility, timelines, architecture, security, vendors, hiring, customer requirements, partnerships, infrastructure, cost, development priorities, and technical risk.

Best for your startup if

You do not have a CTO, technology is central to the business, and you need hands-on execution with executive leadership. You may be preparing for customers, partnerships, fundraising, or an engineering team of your own.

Not sure which level fits? Start with where your product is today.

Compare the responsibilities

A clear division of responsibility

Advice. Execution. Leadership.

Each engagement reflects a different level of ownership. Here is how they compare.

Monthly engagements and the responsibilities included in each.
Your level of supportTechnical Advisor$4,000 / monthTechnical Lead$12,000 / monthFractional CTO$15,000 / month
Technical guidanceIncludedIncludedIncluded
ArchitectureReview & guidanceFull ownershipFull ownership
Code reviewIncludedIncludedIncluded
Hands-on developmentYour teamIncludedIncluded
Production deploymentYour teamIncludedIncluded
Infrastructure ownershipYour teamIncludedIncluded
Security implementationYour teamIncludedIncluded
Technical roadmapGuidanceOwnOwn
Product strategyTechnical inputTechnical inputActive leadership
Founder-level technology supportWeeklyRegularOngoing
Customer / partner technical representationLimitedAs neededIncluded
Investor / due diligence supportLimitedTechnical supportIncluded
Engineering hiring & team designGuidanceAs neededIncluded
Technology organization leadershipNot includedNot includedIncluded

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From MVP to production

It works.
Is it ready for what’s next?

Maybe your first version was built by freelancers, an agency, a small team, or with AI-assisted tools. You focused on proving the idea and shipping features. That is normal.

At some point, the question changes from “Can we build this?” to “Is it secure, reliable, scalable, and maintainable?” An application can look finished while its technical foundation still needs attention.

Understand what you have. Preserve what works. Fix what matters. Build the foundation for your next stage.

The goal is not to rebuild everything. It is to keep temporary decisions from quietly becoming permanent architecture.

Where I can help

Across the codebase.
And beyond it.

The work follows the needs of your product and company. Explore the areas I commonly help startups with.

01Architecture & codebase

Architecture and codebase reviews, technical debt, refactoring, backend, frontend and mobile architecture, database and API design, integrations, scalability, performance, and maintainability.

02Production & infrastructure

Cloud architecture, AWS and cloud services, production and staging environments, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, logging, alerting, backups, disaster recovery, environment management, infrastructure security, and cost optimization.

03Security

Authentication, authorization, role-based access, data protection, encryption, secrets management, API security, rate limiting, audit logging, access controls, secure development practices, vendor risk, and security review.

04Product & roadmap

Technical roadmaps, feature prioritization, MVP decisions, feasibility, architecture sequencing, build versus buy, integration planning, internal and administrative tools, customer workflows, data and analytics, and AI capabilities where they make sense.

05Engineering & team

Developer, agency, and contractor oversight, code review, development standards, testing strategy, release processes, technical documentation, hiring, technical interviews, team structure, developer onboarding, and engineering leadership.

06Business & technology

Customer technical meetings, enterprise sales support, partner discussions, vendor evaluation, technical due diligence, investor questions, pitch-deck technology content, security questionnaires, product demonstrations, and technical risk assessment.

A typical first stage

A practical path forward.

The exact priorities depend on your product. We start by understanding what is there, then focus on what will make the biggest difference.

01 / ASSESS

Assess & stabilize

Understand the platform and identify the most important technical risks.

  • Review architecture, code, and data
  • Assess infrastructure and security
  • Identify technical debt and reliability risks
  • Prioritize critical remediation
02 / PREPARE

Secure & prepare

Strengthen the controls your product needs for real-world use.

  • Authentication and access control
  • Data protection and secrets management
  • Rate limiting and audit logging
  • Backups, recovery, and environment separation
  • Privacy and compliance readiness
03 / OPERATE

Deploy & operate

Make the platform easier and safer to run with clear operational visibility.

  • Production infrastructure and CI/CD
  • Monitoring, logging, and alerts
  • Repeatable deployment processes
  • Backups and recovery procedures
04 / EVOLVE

Complete & evolve

Finish what the next stage needs and create a practical technical roadmap.

  • Priority features, admin tools, and integrations
  • Performance and development process improvements
  • Technical roadmap and hiring plan
  • Customer and due diligence readiness

The level of involvement follows your engagement. In Technical Advisory, I guide and review while your team implements. Technical Lead and Fractional CTO engagements include hands-on execution.

Amine Nabi, CTO of BNMA
30+years designing, building, and leading software

Your technical partner

Leadership that stays close to the work.

Amine Nabi / CTO, BNMA

I am a technology executive and hands-on software architect and engineer with more than 30 years of experience across healthcare, financial services, construction, manufacturing, logistics, media, SaaS, and enterprise software.

My approach is deliberately hands-on. Depending on the engagement, I may be reviewing architecture, writing code, deploying infrastructure, solving production issues, leading developers, interviewing engineers, or joining a customer or investor conversation.

“Make better technical decisions, reduce unnecessary risk, and build technology that can support the business you are trying to create.”
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Let’s start with your product

What does your
next stage look like?

You do not need to know which engagement you need. We can start with where your product is today, what you want to accomplish next, and the team you already have.

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Technical Advisor $4,000/mo · Technical Lead $12,000/mo · Fractional CTO $15,000/mo