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Hi, my name is Andrej Gajdos

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Hire Fractional CTO | Andrej Gajdos
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WHICH STATEMENT BEST DESCRIBES YOU?

I am going to build a new project.
  • Don’t know how long it takes to build the MVP?
  • Want to be sure that MVP will meet your expectations?
  • Don’t know what tech stack fits the needs of the product?
  • Don’t want to waste time with reinventing the wheel and leverage existing tooling to speed up the development process?
  • Don’t know how and where to hire talented developers?
  • Want to be sure that the code structure is correct from the beginning and you won’t need to build the project again from scratch?
I have an existing project.
  • Does it take too long to develop basic functionality?
  • Don’t know if developers are experienced and capable of finishing the MVP?
  • Are there a lot of bugs or many functionalities are missing?
  • Don’t know how to track what tasks are finished and what’s the work in progress?
  • Developers don’t know devops and are struggling to set up the infrastructure?
  • The user interface is slow and not user friendly?
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WHY ME?

Are you on the lookout to hire a Fractional CTO who brings over 10 years of tech leadership and innovation to the table? With my extensive experience in architecting, developing, and deploying technology solutions for a spectrum of companies, from agile start-ups to major tech corporations, I’ve successfully delivered over 20 high-impact projects.

As your Fractional CTO, I offer more than just technical expertise. I bring a strategic vision for your product development roadmap, streamline your development workflow, and ensure your project infrastructure is robust and scalable. From full-stack development to architecting and implementing efficient third-party integrations, my focus is on creating fast, clean, and maintainable web applications that can effortlessly scale from a handful to thousands of users.

My technical prowess is rooted in React, Node.js, Next.js, among other technologies, with a special emphasis on crafting functional and seamless front-end experiences in React. The success of my previous projects hinged on a user interface that was not just functional but also integral to the product’s appeal. Browse through my portfolio to get a glimpse of the success stories I’ve been a part of.

Offering my services as a Fractional CTO for hire, I am committed to collaborating with businesses of all scales and industries. Don’t hesitate to reach out. I’m available throughout the week to discuss and strategize on your project or development needs.

[email protected]

SERVICES

Ongoing advice

Regular meetings with the team to consult product development roadmap, setting engineering pacing, code reviews to ensure that the project is well structured. Minimum price is $4800/month.

Part-time development

If you feel like you need my help everyday or every second day around 20-25 hours/week. This is a good option that works well for many companies and start-ups. I am in touch with the team frequently and it helps to identify and solve issues very early.

Full-time development

I can commit full-time 40 hours/week. I enjoy full-stack development and bringing business ideas into life. Other than fractional CTO responsibilities, I can set up and improve the infrastructure, and implement various integrations and functionalities.

One-time assessment

Do you need a one-time assessment or anything else?

  • I can help you set up the engineering pace and recommend what’s possible to implement within your resources
  • I can go through your project quickly and produce a report with recommendations
  • I can set up the infrastructure for your project, so developers can focus on product development instead of devops

WORK

React Project | Developer Portfolio Item
Apple ***

Web portal in React.js, which allows Apple ***

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
  • React
  • Framer Motion
fractional cto | portfolio item
Provenance

As a fractional CTO I helped the team with strategic consult on the product development roadmap. I managed and led team of developers. I made code reviews to identify issues before they translate into technical debt. I helped developers with best practices and leverage tooling to speed up the development process and ensure code quality. I architected and built project’s infrastructure, CI pipeline and third-party integrations.

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
  • AWS EC2
  • Circle CI
  • Node.js
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software architect | portfolio item
GoSchoolBox

GoSchoolBox is a SaaS platform that serves as the technical infrastructure layer between school districts and tutoring companies. The number of users grew from 50k to 1mil. The GoSchoolBox platform has suffered from a significant number of application stability issues such as spontaneous error messages, gateway timeout errors, slow page load times and slow user flows. My role as a software architect was to ensure platform stability, resiliency, and scalability. I helped the team to integrate and set up APM with metrics and performance dashboards to detect and diagnose end-users’ experience with mission-critical services. I refactored and fixed critical user flows to improve user flow performance, server throughput and page load performance. I optimised Mongo search performance to allow users search millions of records within seconds.

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
  • AWS
  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
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Frontend Technology Lead | Portfolio Item
Meridian

Meridian provides next-gen, AI-powered workflow tools to private investors. As a Frontend Technical Lead, my responsibility was not just to manage but also to inspire and guide the front-end team through the intricacies of front-end development. One of my significant contributions was collaborating closely with the Product Designer. Together, we crafted a UI design system that was not just visually appealing but also intuitive and user-centric. This system became the cornerstone of the user experience, embodying the essence of Meridian’s innovative approach. I built the MVP from scratch and set up CI pipeline for Meridian’s UI.

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
  • React
  • Storybook
  • Typescript
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Website builder platform in React | Portfolio Item
Stackbit

Stackbit is a website builder that helps developers of any level to build their own Jamstack sites based on Next.js and Tailwind, fast. I helped Stackbit’s team to set up the tooling and design the architecture for design system of the main platform. I helped and mentored senior React developers best practices and what patterns to use to solve complex flows in React projects. I was working on fixing various issues and bugs in the platform. I was working on additional feature sets for enterprise clients. I worked as a full-stack developer in React.js, Node.js and MongoDB with focus on front-end development.

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
  • React
  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
  • Typescript
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THINGS PEOPLE SAY

Andrej exceeded our expectations. Over the course of our project, Andrej rose to the challenge of a true consulting CTO. He provided trusted and invaluable strategic consult, evaluating our other engineering talent through code reviews, setting engineering pacing, providing devops support and consulting on our product development roadmap.

As a truly talented engineering, Andrej led the design and development of our infrastructure, managed the more complicated integrations and set the standard for our early development practices. We are grateful and advantaged for having had Andrej as a member of our team.

Steven Greitzer, Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup

Andrej worked with our team to develop a rather complex web application using React. He joined us at a critical stage in the development process and was instrumental in guiding our team to adopt best practices for React and helping us implement more modular code.

We found Andrej to be very professional, a skilled and efficient programmer, and enjoyable to work with. He easily integrated with the rest of our team and was productive from day one. We would happily hire Andrej to work with us again.

Peter Ellis, President at Big Ladder Software

Andrej worked with Adapt Worldwide in 2019, developing multiple React widgets for a major marketing campaign. Andrej exceeded our expectations beyond measure through his skill and dedication.

Communication with Andrej was fluid and uncomplicated, and he always went above and beyond to not only ensure the project was promptly delivered, but that it was done so to an immaculate standard. His insight and experience was hugely valuable to the project; Andrej truly helped us shape our vision and reach our goals with strong execution.

I would highly recommend Andrej as an exceptional React developer who is completely dedicated to producing quality, functional, engaging content. It would be an absolute pleasure to work with Andrej again in the future.

Michael de Alwis, Creative Content Executive at Adapt Worldwide

Andrej was a key contributor to a complex, critical React web application. His work is timely and thoughtful, and he’s a great communicator and team player. We hope to work with him again soon.

Jacob Budin, Development Manager at Kettle

After working with over a dozen developers from several different countries, it was absolutely refreshing to have had the pleasure to work with Andrej in building a full stack, dynamic web app.

Andrej has all of the required technical expertise that one could hope for when it comes to building a highly scalable and dynamic website. For me, this meant taking designs from an early stage and building the entire front and back end of the project, release ready.

He also exhibits a particular pride in his attention to detail (a trait which had been hard to find previously). This meant that after giving Andrej direction, you can always be confident that the code will be delivered exactly as required. Equally in my experiences, If Andrej see’s a better method, he will always suggest it, helping us end up with the best product possible.

All in all, Andrej was indispensable to our team and certainly one of the best developers that I have had the pleasure to work with.

Marcus Scott, Founder and Director of SayCaster (rebranded to Bitcast)

I had the pleasure of managing Andrej for about 1 year at Zeroturnaround. His natural ability to recognize deficiencies and address them made him an immediate asset to the team and the company.

Andrej would regularly think of different ways to provide our clients with the best grasp of the benefits that our tools offered. This allowed him to grow in respect from our clients and his co-workers. Andrej was a pleasure to work with and is always looking for ways to provide himself with personal growth.

Andrej also is an excellent orator. His clear and concise voice allowed customers to feel comfortable working with him and collaborating with him. This lead to his sales team being able to close many deals that they were previously unable to close.

I would love to be able to work with Andrej again someday and comes with my highest of recommendations.

Curtis Johnson, Sales Engineering Manager at ZeroTurnaround (acquired by Rogue Wave Software)

Andrej was a great help in creating a vision and front-end prototype for our startup. I have very little technical knowledge, and he was so knowledgeable in finding us technologies that would work for our needs. He is very professional, friendly, honest, and his communication is excellent. I highly recommend Andrej!

Carlene Takaki, Professional Swim Coach at Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics

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