Fractional Advisory
Engineering leadership, fractionally.
15 years building and leading engineering orgs at Verily Life Sciences and Qualcomm. Now available to Seed–Series B startups as a fractional VP Engineering — without the full-time overhead.
Is this you?
- Seed–Series B startup scaling past 5 engineers for the first time
- Founder or CTO carrying the engineering org too long — ready to delegate architecture decisions to someone who's been there
- Building a DevEx or platform function and need a practitioner who has run it at scale (GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, developer tooling)
- Engineering team growing fast and the hiring bar, leveling framework, or on-call posture isn't keeping up
How it works
Most fractional engagements run 3–6 months with a recurring weekly or bi-weekly cadence. We start with a paid discovery session — a structured 90-minute conversation that produces a written findings doc you keep regardless of next steps.
What I offer
Advisory
Strategic Engineering Guidance
Weekly or bi-weekly sessions covering roadmap trade-offs, engineering velocity, incident response posture, and executive communication. You get a thought partner who has shipped at scale and can pressure-test your decisions before they calcify.
Architecture Review
System Design Assessment
A structured review of your current architecture — data flows, service boundaries, deployment topology, and failure modes. Delivered as a written report with prioritized findings and a 90-day action plan your team can execute.
Team Building
Hiring & Org Design
Interview calibration, leveling frameworks, and org structure for engineering teams at inflection points. Helps you hire the right people and build the scaffolding that keeps them effective as the team doubles.
Get in touch
Let's talk about your team
Send a short note — what you're building, where you're stuck, and what you need. I respond within 48 hours.
damilola.elegbede@gmail.com