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Fractional CTO & Strategy
Embedded technical leadership for founders and boards. Roadmap alignment, delivery system design, team and culture, technical due diligence.
Open to fractional CTO & advisory engagements
CEO & Founder · LeaderNova Building, securing, and leading software products at scale.
Fifteen years partnering with founders, boards, and engineering teams — from hands-on architecture to CTO leadership through an M&A exit.
Currently & Previously
Onport (Farfetch Group)
Vinted
PugliaTechs
LeaderNova
How I work
Outcome ownership across leadership, product, and security.
Five service lines delivered through LeaderNova. Engagements run as outcome partnerships rather than vendor work — embedded, accountable, and tightly scoped to the result.
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Dedicated Product Teams
Senior product engineering pods. End-to-end design, build, and ship for SaaS, marketplace, and automation platforms.
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Custom SaaS Development
Modern stacks — Next.js, NestJS, FastAPI, Supabase, Vercel — built for compounding leverage and clean handover.
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AI & Business Automation
Production AI agents, LLM systems, and workflow orchestration. Built with the same engineering rigour as the rest of the stack.
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Vibe-Code Security Audits
Targeted assessments for AI-generated codebases — OWASP Top 10, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, Supabase RLS, secrets, and supply chain.
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Advisory & Coaching
Sparring partner for CTOs and senior engineers. Mini-RFC format, ownership transfer model, no dependency creation.
Track record
A career built at the intersection of code, product, and security.
Hands-on engineer to CTO to founder. Operating across e-commerce, marketplace, healthcare, hospitality, and public sector — with two M&A exits along the way.
- CEO & Founder LeaderNova — tech-leadership & product studio 2025 — present
- Product Engineer Vinted — marketplace platform at scale 2025 — present
- Vice President PugliaTechs — positioning Puglia as a global tech hub 2025 — present
- Chief Technology Officer Onport (Farfetch Group) — led product & engineering through M&A exit 2021 — 2025
- Founder Francy Solutions — decade leading a global software consultancy 2011 — 2021
- Forensic Consultant Law firms & law enforcement — cybersecurity & digital forensics 2011 — present
Core stack
What we build with.
Modern, pragmatic, production-grade. A compact view — the full toolkit lives on the About page.
- Product
- TypeScript React Next.js Python FastAPI NestJS PostgreSQL
- Cloud
- GCP Supabase Vercel Pulumi Cloudflare Zero Trust AWS Docker
- AI & Automation
- AI Agents LLMs Agno LangChain Langfuse Temporal Trigger.dev n8n Anthropic OpenAI Vertex AI LiveKit
- Security
- DevSecOps OWASP Semgrep Trivy TruffleHog MobSF Database Security
Get in touch
Have a problem worth solving?
I take on a small number of engagements each year. The best ones start with a thirty-minute conversation about what you’re trying to build, who it serves, and what’s in the way.