Fractional technology leadership for nonprofits where the data problem is as hard as the mission is important. Not advisory. Not a roadmap you'll never use. A builder who stays, ships, and owns the outcome.
A nonprofit does incredible work. They grow. The spreadsheets can't keep up. They buy Salesforce. A consultant configures it and leaves. Staff turns over. Nobody knows how it works anymore. The data rots. Grant reports take three weeks. The board loses confidence. And the people being served — the families, the patients, the kids — never know that the reason the program got cut was a technology failure, not a mission failure.
I've spent my career making sure that doesn't happen. I'm not a consultant who advises from the outside. I'm an engineer who embeds in your organization, learns your mission, and builds the technology infrastructure that lets you prove your impact, protect your data, and grow without breaking.
You're feeding 40,000 families a year, but you can't tell your board how many are new this quarter because your data lives in six systems that don't talk to each other.
Your development director quit six months ago and she was the only person who understood how your Salesforce org works. Three former employees still have super admin access.
Your biggest funder just asked for outcome data you know exists somewhere in your systems, but producing the report will take your program team two weeks of manual work they can't afford.
A full-time technology leader costs $180K+. Your budget is measured in meals served, not headcount. But you still need someone who can see the whole picture and make it work.
You've had consultants before. They produced a strategy document, billed you $30K, and left. The document is in a drawer. Nothing changed. The data is still broken.
Every month without technology leadership, your technical debt compounds. Staff build workarounds. Donors lose confidence. And the people you serve pay the price for problems they'll never see.
This isn't about technology for technology's sake. It's about what becomes possible when your systems actually work.
Your program data flows into one system. When a funder asks for outcomes, you run a report and send it the same day. Your team gets three weeks of their life back every quarter.
Former employees are deactivated. Permissions are locked down. You know exactly who has access to what. When the auditor asks about your security posture, you hand them documentation instead of panic.
"How many new clients this quarter? What's our donor retention? Which programs are growing?" You answer in real time, with data your board actually trusts, because it comes from systems you understand.
When Salesforce sends a scary email about something expiring, or your online donation platform goes down, or a staff laptop gets stolen — you have someone who already knows your systems and can act immediately.
This isn't a one-time engagement. It's an ongoing relationship that deepens over time.
Full security audit. Deactivate former staff. Map every system, every integration, every data flow. Identify the three things that are actively on fire and put them out. You get a technology assessment document and an immediate action plan.
Fix the data model. Clean up permissions. Build the reports your board has been asking for. Set up the monitoring and alerting that means you find out about problems before your staff does. Start training your team on the systems they actually use.
Now we build. Custom integrations between your systems. Automated workflows that eliminate manual data entry. Dashboards that tell your impact story. The work that makes your organization fundamentally more capable than it was before.
From $200K grassroots orgs to $50M multi-site operations. Salesforce, custom software, data migrations, security.
No commissions. No referral fees. I recommend what actually works for you, not what pays me.
No hand-offs. No junior associates. The person you talk to is the person who builds, deploys, and supports.
Salesforce/NPSP, Rust, React, TypeScript, APIs, DNS, security audits, data pipelines. Whatever the problem needs.
Last week I set up two Salesforce reports for an auditor, caught a critical email domain verification deadline three days before enforcement, created the DKIM keys, researched the DNS registrar, wrote step-by-step GoDaddy instructions, and produced branded PDF deliverables for two different stakeholders. That was a Tuesday.
A real day in a real fractional CTO engagementFractional CTO engagements are structured as quarterly retainers. The exact amount depends on the scope and complexity of your situation, but here's a frame of reference:
$5,000 - $8,000 / month
Billed quarterly. Scope defined together. No surprises.
A full-time CTO costs $180K+ in salary alone. A Big Four consulting engagement runs $250-400/hour. This gives you dedicated technology leadership — strategy and execution — at a fraction of either. And unlike a consultant, I don't leave after the assessment.
I take on 2-3 fractional CTO clients at a time. The bar is high because the commitment is real.
This isn't a contact form. It's a conversation starter. I read every application personally and respond within 48 hours.