Senior technical judgment, on your side of the table.
Technology that works, stays yours, and stops being your problem. I design, build, and run systems for organizations of any size, and I answer for them personally. From a single project to the full CTO chair.
On your terms
Decisions
Make every call yourself, have me sanity-check yours, or leave it all to me, including the rest of this list.
Ownership & involvement
Write code alongside me, make changes yourself through an interface that fits you, or simply tell me what you want and I'll make it happen. Runs in your accounts or mine, and can switch over anytime.
Build or buy
Bespoke when it makes sense, off the shelf when it doesn't.
Your team
I can run everything indefinitely, or train your people and hand over the keys.
Duration & scale
A two-week project, a build-then-train handoff with support on call, or the standing CTO chair.
Services
Everything below can be provided standalone or bundled.
Fractional CTO
Ongoing technical leadership: architecture, hiring, vendor decisions, and one person accountable for everything your business runs on.
Product development
Design and build your website or product on a proven stack, then run it for you, or train your team and hand over the keys.
Hosting & operations
Reliable, inexpensive hosting with backups, monitoring, and a documented exit path to your own cloud account at any time.
Business platform setup
Domains, DNS, email, payments and invoicing, auth. The boring yet critical plumbing, set up correctly in accounts you own.
Advisory & second opinions
Architecture reviews, build-versus-buy calls, vendor evaluations, and an experienced set of eyes beside your existing technical team. Sometimes one conversation saves a quarter.
AI adoption
Wondering whether AI belongs in your business? I'll find where it genuinely helps, set it up safely, and tell you honestly where it doesn't.
AI-assisted editing
Make AI-assisted changes yourself and see them in a private preview. Nothing goes live until it passes checks I designed and answer for.
Contract engineering
Have a specific job in mind? I'll scope it, build it to last, and hand it over tested and documented, with no ongoing obligation.
About
I'm Jonathan Scoresby, a software engineer and endlessly curious tinkerer. I taught myself to code as a teenager and have been fascinated by solving problems with computers ever since. I hold a computer science degree from Utah State University, and I've spent my career building and running systems end to end, from frontend to infrastructure, including software serving millions of customers.
Scoresby Tech is my consulting practice. I provide technical leadership and engineering for businesses that don't have (or don't yet need) a full-time technology team, and a second perspective for those that do.
Contact
The best way to reach me is email. Tell me a little about your business and what you're trying to get done.
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