Fractional CTO // Full Stack Engineer

I help businesses bring ideas to life.

Beautiful, modern software that actually ships, and holds up past the trend cycle. Built for startups and small teams that want it done right the first time.

A quick chat. No pitch, no obligation. We figure out if it's a fit.

Nicola Bovolato
01 // What I do

The three ways I help businesses move forward

Build

From a rough idea to a product your users love. One senior engineer handling product, engineering, and infra so you don't need four vendors.

  • Product & tech scoping from your brief
  • Full build: frontend, backend, infra
  • Shipped in weeks, not quarters
Typical engagement: 6-12 weeks

Rescue & Scale

Codebases drift and systems buckle under growth. I audit, stabilize, and modernize what's slowing your team down, or scale what's finally working.

  • Architecture, reliability, and performance audit
  • Targeted fixes, not full rewrites
  • Scale-up work: infra, bottlenecks, cost
Typical engagement: 2-8 weeks

Fractional Engineering

Embed with your team part-time. Principal IC when you need hands on the keyboard, CTO advisory when you need the strategy behind it.

  • Hands-on coding on your roadmap
  • Architecture, hiring, and tech strategy
  • Fixed weekly commitment, no surprises
Typical engagement: 3+ months
03 // How I work

Uncompromising work. Startup overhead.

I've spent years shipping and running software for non-technical founders and in-house teams alike. From marketing sites and internal tools, to APIs and SaaS products, to mission-critical apps and systems that scale effortlessly. I build it, and when you need me to, I keep it alive.

Every engagement starts with a free discovery call, moves to a scoped proposal with clear deliverables, runs on weekly demos so you're never surprised, and ends with a handover your team actually understands.

No agency layers. No abandoned prototypes. No rewrite six months later. You get me, focused on your problem.

Comfortable across
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Svelte
  • Tailwind
  • Node
  • Go
  • Rust
  • Python
  • ASP.NET
  • Postgres
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Github Actions

Let's talk it through.

We'll cover what you're building, what's in the way, and whether I can help.