- What is a Fractional CTO?
- A Fractional CTO provides experienced technology leadership on a part-time or contract basis. They help growing businesses define their tech strategy, build engineering teams, and make critical architectural decisions — without the cost of a full-time executive.
- What services does Siamak Salman offer as a Fractional CTO?
- Siamak Salman offers strategic technology planning and roadmapping, tech stack assessment and optimization, engineering team leadership and mentoring, system architecture design, scalability planning, and digital transformation guidance.
- Who is Siamak Salman?
- Siamak Salman is a Fractional CTO and writer who provides strategic technology leadership for growing businesses. He writes about AI coding agents, software factories, verification loops, and engineering leadership in the age of AI.
- How do you move an engineering team to AI-native workflows?
- Start where the bottleneck actually moves: verification, not code generation. Give coding agents written rules and deterministic harnesses (tests, type checks, review gates) so their output is checked automatically, keep humans on specification and review, and decide per codebase whether code is disposable or durable before deciding how much quality to enforce.
- How can a Fractional CTO help a growing startup?
- A Fractional CTO helps startups by defining a scalable technical roadmap, evaluating the current technology stack, hiring and mentoring engineers, designing resilient system architectures, and guiding the transition from early-stage to growth-stage engineering.
