Top 12 Fractional CTOs to Hire in 2026

Ganesh Kompella is founder and fractional CTO/CPO at Kompella Technologies. He has 15+ years leading product and technology work across healthcare, fintech, and enterprise SaaS.

His work spans architecture, engineering-team building, AI strategy, and technical diligence. Kompella has shipped dozens of products and applies operating experience from startups and larger enterprises to technology decisions that need executive ownership.

Sergio Pereira is an entrepreneur and fractional CTO who has spent 20 years building technology and a decade as a startup CTO, including two ventures where he served as a co-founder.

Pereira helps founders move from an idea to a shipped product and then scale the technology, team, and processes behind it. His work covers architecture, hiring, technical strategy, SaaS building, and the early decisions that shape startup engineering.

Mario Meyer is founder and CEO of Reyem Tech, with more than 25 years leading digital transformation, platform development, and AI strategy across North American and Latin American markets.

Meyer works across technology roadmaps, AI adoption, cloud architecture, modernization, and team leadership. As a fractional CTO, he helps growing companies connect technology with business goals through strategic planning and hands-on work.

Elliott Garcea is a fractional CPTO and former co-founder of 10KC, where he led engineering for 11 years before the company was sold in a transaction valued at $100 million.

Garcea advises seed-to-Series B founders on AI product strategy, architecture, roadmaps, hiring, and board-level technology decisions. His work centers on helping teams make durable technical choices before they are ready for a full-time CTO.

Don Bora is co-founder and Technology Principal at Eight Bit Studios. He has more than 35 years in software spanning Motorola, enterprise engineering, startups, and technology education.

Bora brings experience in enterprise engineering and startup leadership. As a fractional CTO, he helps modernize technology, design systems, launch products, use AI in development, review technical systems, and build teams. He also mentors founders.

Davor Majc is founder of Numen, working as a fractional CTO, technical architect, and hands-on developer. He previously served as an early technical leader for multiple funded startups.

Majc works across architecture, infrastructure, software delivery, and AI integrations, including multi-agent and RAG systems. His startup engagements show a hands-on fractional model that combines executive technical judgment with direct responsibility for systems and code.

Troy Busot is a fractional CTO and technology leader with more than 30 years of experience leading product and engineering teams. He manages major budgets, and builds products used by millions.

Busot helps product and engineering teams understand customer needs, test ideas, build platforms that can grow, and find product-market fit. He focuses on building strong teams and connecting technical work with product goals.

Ankit Rana is a fractional CTO at Codenest with 15 years of engineering experience spanning consumer platforms, regulated delivery, payments transformation, cloud infrastructure, and AI.

Rana has worked on technology for organizations across government, banking, pharma, and payments, and has led engineering teams through growth. His fractional work covers architecture, Kubernetes and cloud, agentic AI, team building, and technical due diligence.

Bryce Catlin is a fractional CTO at Bubbl and an engineering leader with 25+ years of experience, including senior roles at LeagueApps, Shipt, Untapped, and OpenTable.

At Bubbl, Catlin works across product, architecture, delivery, leadership, and hands-on building. His broader career centers on scalable engineering organizations and systems, including growing teams and balancing speed, software quality, and cost as technology changes.

Martin Wells is a fractional CTO and three-time founder with 25 years of technology experience, three operator exits, and a track record advising and building alongside startup founders.

Wells works closely with non-technical founders to lead system design, hiring, AI choices, and major technology decisions. He has helped products grow to millions of users and built platforms later acquired by major tech companies.

Abdelrahman Algazzar is a fractional CTO and startup co-founder with 15 years in technology leadership, specializing in cloud infrastructure, AI, architecture, and engineering-team direction.

Algazzar works with founders and investors on architecture, technical roadmaps, engineering operations, and scaling decisions. His fractional model stays close to execution, with direct ownership of technical direction rather than limiting the engagement to advisory work.