Embedded engineering leadership

Fractional CTO

Fractional and interim CTO leadership for EMEA scale-ups and enterprises. Organisation design, platform strategy, and AI adoption, with responsibility for the work.

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The starting point

When to bring me in.

For CEOs, COOs, and technology leaders at EMEA scale-ups and enterprises who need senior engineering leadership inside the organisation, not another recommendation from outside it.

Your CTO is leaving, stretched too thin, or needs an experienced partner through a period of change.
AI adoption is moving faster than your team structure, platform, or governance can support.
Engineering investment needs a direction the board can understand and the team can execute.

The work

What we work towards.

Organisation that can adapt

Team topology, decision rights, and leadership responsibilities for an engineering organisation where humans and agents work together.

A platform that earns its place

Internal developer platforms, golden paths, and developer-productivity investment grounded in the constraints of your business.

AI adoption with evidence

A rollout with clear ownership, guardrails, and measures of impact. What belongs in the SDLC, what does not, and how you know.

The engagement

Clear scope.
Clear ownership.

Typically 3 to 12 months, embedded with your leadership team, 1–3 days a week. Interim scope and availability are agreed around the leadership gap.

We agree on the mandate, decision rights, and outcomes before I start. I help own the work and its execution alongside your team; this is not staff augmentation.

My engineering work draws on the ISEE Framework™ — Intent, Structure, Execution, Evidence — and the Agentile™ operating model. The method serves the engagement, not the other way around.

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The first call is free, runs 30 minutes, and ends with a clear next step or a referral.

Suzanne Daniels

The experience behind it.

Thirty-plus years across production engineering, platform strategy, and technology leadership. Head of Developer Experience in logistics and e-commerce, founding DevRel at Backstage at Spotify, and executive engineering advisory at Microsoft & GitHub.

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