Your startup just raised, and you're competing for talent at full-CTO comp. Or your co-founder left mid-MVP. Or your seed is closing and the lead VC wants a technical reference call this week. Or you need immediate engineering continuity in place.
We provide the technical direction needed to navigate the Herzliya ecosystem and scale without the full-time overhead.
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Technical Leadership
Herzliya Pituach houses the R&D centers of Apple, Microsoft, and Israel's most successful tech scale-ups. Startups here face aggressive talent poaching and high investor expectations. We provide strategic technical leadership to help founders hire elite Unit 8200 engineers, pass intense VC due diligence, and architect systems that scale globally.
Fractional CTO & Technical Advisor
Bringing 20 years of engineering leadership and 15+ SaaS business successes directly to your boardroom. We don't just advise; we execute.
Last updated: September 2026
You raised, and now you need a team.
You closed your seed or Series A. Your investors want to see hiring velocity within 60 days. The senior candidates you're talking to are juggling three offers from and a stealth local spinout.
Define the first 5-8 roles in priority order, write JDs in language local senior engineers actually respond to, and own the technical vetting pipeline from screening to final offer.
Request Herzliya auditYour cloud bill is eating your runway.
Your AWS or GCP costs are scaling faster than your revenue. You're bleeding capital on over-provisioned clusters and inefficient database queries while your runway shrinks.
Execute a two-week deep architectural audit. I restructure your infrastructure, implement aggressive cost controls, and typically reduce monthly cloud spend by 30-50% without impacting production uptime.
Request Herzliya auditYour technical co-founder just exited.
You built an MVP and gained early traction, but your tech lead left the company. You have active customers, an anxious dev team, and no one to manage the codebase or upcoming sprint cycles.
Step in immediately to stabilize the existing engineering team. I audit the codebase, secure all critical access credentials, and manage daily operations until we recruit your permanent replacement.
Request Herzliya auditYou are facing a Series B technical audit.
Investors from are preparing to tear apart your infrastructure. A failed technical due diligence report will kill your term sheet or severely impact your valuation.
Preemptively audit your system exactly how a VC would. I patch security vulnerabilities, secure data compliance (including Israel PPL and GDPR equivalence), and defend your architecture in the boardroom.
Request Herzliya auditYour platform falls over under load.
Customer growth is accelerating, but your system is failing. Critical bugs are slipping into production, downtime is increasing, and your engineers are stuck firefighting instead of shipping new features.
Implement rigorous CI/CD pipelines, automated testing rubrics, and incident response protocols. I stabilize the core architecture so your team can return to shipping reliable product updates.
Request Herzliya auditYou've outgrown your initial tech stack.
The monolithic architecture that got you to MVP is now blocking feature development. Technical debt is overwhelming, and every new deployment feels like a massive risk to the business.
Design a 90-day phased migration plan. I architect the transition to modern microservices or serverless infrastructure without disrupting your current active users.
Request Herzliya audit| Role | Cost | Commitment | When to use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fractional CTO (GotYourTech) | Custom Retainer | Flexible Retainer | Seed to Series B scale |
| Full-Time CTO | High Annual Salary + Equity | Multi-year | Series C+, enterprise |
| Tech Co-Founder | High Equity (20%+) | Life of company | Pre-seed / Ideation |
Transparent, predictable flat-fee retainers. No hourly billing surprises.
For Pre-Seed & MVP alignment
For Seed & Series A Scaling
Turnkey R&D Execution
Yes, I regularly meet founders in Herzliya Pituach for whiteboard architecture sessions while managing squads seamlessly.
I enforce automated CI/CD, comprehensive documentation, and cross-functional pairing so engineering velocity doesn't halt when team members deploy.
Yes. I align code ownership, IP assignment, and cloud infrastructure to ensure friction-free legal and technical due diligence.
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