Hello, I'm Venk!
Your CTO, On-Demand.
I help tech leaders and teams move faster through coaching, AI, and hands-on technical leadership.
I spent over a decade as a tech executive at companies like Unity and Ellie Mae, and today I work with founders & tech leaders who need a senior pair of hands when it matters most.
Leadership Coaching
What we'll work on together.
Strategy & Roadmap
Leverage a varied set of tools & frameworks available to build a long-term strategy & roadmap for your organization and self
Collab & Influence
Learn to communicate more efficiently & collaborate more effectively, and build your own personal style of influence
Operational Rigor
Achieve business outcomes, manage your organization, understand your budget and more through data-driven rigor
People Management
Grow your people with a focus on individual happiness & delivering outcomes, with better retention & performance management
Recruiting & Hiring
Fine tune your hiring processes to source better & more diverse talent & run a more efficient recruiting pipeline
Mindset & Behaviors
Learn new ways to focus your mindset on specific goals and master relevant behavorial skills needed
AI Transformation
Make AI a force multiplier for how your engineering team ships.
AI Strategy & Roadmap
Let's figure out where AI actually moves the needle for your engineering org, prioritized by impact and feasibility, not hype.
Team Enablement
Bring AI into your engineers' daily coding workflow, with the patterns and habits that actually stick.
Dev Tools
Pick the right coding assistants, IDEs, and extensions. Wire them in without breaking what already works.
Agentic Workflows
Move past chat and into agents that actually do work: code review, ticket triage, ops automation, and more.
Training
Hands-on training that gets your engineers using AI effectively, tuned to your stack and your team's level.
Product Integration
Bring AI-enhanced workflows into the product itself, so your users feel the impact, not just your team.
Technical Consulting
Real engineering expertise across architecture, infrastructure, and code.
Architecture & Design
Deep reviews of your systems, tradeoffs, and roadmap. I'll tell you what's working, what's risky, and what to change.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Find the weak spots and rearchitect your infra for the stability, resilience, and efficiency that scales with you.
Project Delivery
Hand me a project and I'll own it end-to-end. From scoping through shipping, built alongside your team and treated like it's mine.
Refactor & Cleanup
Refactor what's load-bearing, untangle the code that's slowing your team down, and leave your codebase materially better.
Performance & Scale
Diagnose bottlenecks, plan for the next 10x, and avoid the rewrites that don't actually need to happen.
Quality & Standards
Lift your engineering bar. Testing strategy, CI, observability, the underrated work that compounds.
Need a complimentary coaching session?
Schedule a one-off complimentary session, I'm here to help any way I can.
I am incredibly lucky to be where I am today, and I love helping people. With the tech industry dealing with mass layoffs, I'd like to be of service where I can.
Interview Prep
Currently interviewing and looking to prep for one or more interviews? I can help you with behavioral skills & focus areas.
Safe Space
Everyone needs a sounding board sometime. I'm here to provide a safe personal space for you to talk, and listen with no judgement.
No strings attached
There are no fees, and you can book/reschedule/cancel as you please. All meetings are strictly confidential and never recorded or transcribed.
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