Praveen Shekhawat, Fractional CTO & Engineering Architect
Fractional CTO and engineering architect. For 15+ years I have taken products from fragile MVPs to systems that scale, across SaaS, logistics, healthcare and fintech.
Your product stopped being a startup experiment and became a system. Nobody changed how it is built. The signals show up before the crisis:
The answer is rarely to hire faster or push harder. It is to fix the architecture underneath.
The best place to start
A clear picture of what your system supports today, where it will break next, and what to fix first. The best place to start, and the groundwork any future CTO will need.
Senior technical leadership without a full-time CTO salary. I own the technology decisions alongside your founders and team.
For products that proved the idea but cannot carry the growth. I turn the MVP into a system that is safe to build on.
Bring AI agents into your product and operations without handing them the keys to production.
I have written the code, led the team, run the delivery, designed the architecture and owned the technology strategy. I know where products break because I have worked in every role where they do.
Client names are kept private. The problems are common ones.
Email me or message me on WhatsApp with a few lines on your product and what is breaking.
A 30-minute call. I will tell you honestly whether I can help, and what I would look at first.
4 to 6 weeks to map the system, rank the risks and agree the plan.
I stay on as your fractional CTO, or hand a clear map to the full-time CTO you hire.
Praveen defined and implemented the backend design and algorithms for my app. His ability to think out of the box not only solidified our initial business logic, but also identified gaps within our workflow that resulted in revisiting our use cases. Praveen's work is truly Silicon Valley quality!
He truly and deeply cares about his clients: he wants them to succeed. He is willing to put in all the hours required to understand their business and analyse their data and market in order to craft the best strategy and execute on it. I would highly recommend Praveen for any project you may have.
I started as a developer in 2011. Since then I have led teams, managed delivery, headed architecture and served as CTO for products in SaaS, healthcare, logistics, fintech, enterprise publishing and e-commerce.
I have led distributed engineering teams across Australia, the US and the Middle East, and delivered on time without inflating payroll. Today I work with founders and CTOs whose products are hitting technical limits: scaling, architecture, team structure or delivery.
I am based in Jaipur and work wherever my clients are, across India, Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe.
Industries: SaaS, Logistics, Healthcare, Fintech, Enterprise publishing, E-commerce
Design for the scale the business is heading to, not just where it is today.
People should spend their time on judgment, not repetition.
I treat your product as if it were mine, and tell you the truth early.
Short essays I have written for founders and engineering leaders.
A CTO who joins a system they did not build spends the first 90 days discovering what exists. Get architecture clarity first, so they arrive with a map and start executing.
An MVP is built to prove the idea, not to carry 500 shipments a day. The mistake is not the MVP. It is treating it as a foundation instead of a proof of concept.
A sentence in a system prompt is a suggestion, not a constraint. If your agent can reach it, your agent can break it. Build guardrails that make the wrong action impossible.
A fractional CTO is a senior technology leader who works with your company part time, usually a set number of days each month. You get CTO-level decisions on architecture, team and delivery without the cost of a full-time executive hire.
Usually when the product works and customers are coming, but releases slow down, bugs multiply and the team is stretched. It also helps when there is no senior technical leader, when you depend on an outside development agency, or before investor technical due diligence.
Often yes, eventually. But a CTO who joins an undocumented system spends months just discovering it. Getting architecture clarity first, through a 4 to 6 week Clarity Sprint, means your future CTO starts by executing, not exploring.
SaaS, logistics and supply chain, healthcare (including HIPAA-compliant systems), fintech, enterprise publishing and e-commerce.
Yes. I am based in Jaipur and work with clients across India, Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe, including Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Bangkok, Singapore, Sydney, the SF Bay Area, Seattle, Toronto and London. I work in your time zone and travel when it helps.
Email me or send a WhatsApp message describing your product and what is breaking. We will have a 30-minute call, and I will tell you honestly whether I can help.
I will tell you honestly whether I can fix it.