The AI worth building, an architecture that scales, compliance you can pass. As your fractional CTO, I give you a senior technical answer and a concrete plan, without a full-time hire.
CTO who led 200+ engineers99.99% uptime, multi-region SaaSAcquired by DNVDuke M.Eng.
I'm the technical voice you want in the room before you commit, not after it breaks.
What I do
Where I can help, as your fractional CTO.
I work with software and services companies across sectors, and take on a small number of engagements at a time.
The AI actually worth building
I help you find the use case that pays off and pressure-test it before you spend: a support help desk, a customer chatbot, or reporting that turns scattered CRM, billing, and ops data into one board-ready digest. You get a scoped, costed plan, and a prototype to prove it.
Architecture & security review
A deep-dive into your system and a straight answer on what to fix. Authentication and authorization, multi-tenant isolation, IAM and cloud posture on GCP or AWS, and the delivery-side controls (CI/CD, branch protection, review gates) that make a system both safer and easier to diligence. You leave with a prioritized plan to simplify, scale, and harden it, not a vague "it depends."
SOC 2 readiness
Where you stand against the SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, and exactly what to close before an auditor or an enterprise buyer's security team asks. You get a gap analysis, a prioritized remediation plan, and a readiness report, usually in about two weeks. I get you audit-ready; your CPA firm handles the attestation.
Data governance & AI data rights
For teams whose data footprint is outrunning their governance. Privacy-by-design for personal, biometric, and minors' data: consent gating, minimization, retention and deletion, and identity isolation, mapped to BIPA, COPPA, CCPA, and GDPR. For AI teams, I sort out which sources permit processing versus model training, and get those rights explicit in your customer and partner agreements.
About
The operator behind the work.
Fractional CTO · Principal, ANB Solutions
Abhishek Balakrishnan
For nearly a decade I was CTO and an owner of ANB Systems, where I grew engineering to 200+ people and scaled a 99.99%-uptime, multi-region SaaS platform, through the DevOps and MLOps build-out, major migrations, and ultimately the company's acquisition by DNV.
Now I bring that operator's judgment to founders and teams as a fractional CTO, close enough to the code to give you straight answers, not hand-wavy ones.
200+Engineers led
~50Enterprise clients, global
99.99%Uptime, multi-region
ExitAcquired by DNV
Let's talk
Where are you stuck?
Start with a working session. Tell me what you're weighing or where you're stuck, and you'll leave with a concrete plan.
