Fractional CTO // Full Stack Engineer

I help businesses bring ideas to life.

So you're not the slow part of your own business. I build software for startups and small teams, or advise the ones with a team of their own.

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 or feature your users will love. You describe the problem. I handle scoping, development, and the infra underneath.

  • 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 helping non-technical founders and in-house teams alike with the tech behind their business. From marketing sites and internal tools, to APIs and SaaS products, to mission-critical apps and large distributed systems. Sometimes I'm the one writing the code. Sometimes I'm the one reviewing what your team or a vendor has built, and telling you straight whether it holds up. The point is the same either way. Software that works, and that keeps working.

Every engagement starts with a free discovery call, followed by a clear proposal covering what I'll do and how. From there you stay looped in week by week, however the engagement is shaped, whether I'm building it or advising on it.

No agency layers. No code you can't maintain. No advice you can't act on. 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.