Fractional CTO & Advisor to investors, founders and NGOs | Lecturer @ LAU | Founder @ The Collective — I make the tech calls you can’t afford to get wrong.
Tech is no longer a layer of the business — it is the business. I am a fractional CTO and advisor brought in when a technical or business claim is too expensive to get wrong: a company you’re about to fund, a portfolio team burning runway, a founder’s timelines that don’t add up, or a tech/AI budget nobody on the team can evaluate.
I run technical due diligence, interim/fractional CTO placements, portfolio technical support, and advisory retainers. Typical outcomes I’ve delivered include: identifying competitive risks that stopped bad investments, increasing company value by 200% through operational and execution changes (not headcount), delivering MVPs at ~20% of typical cost, and building and commercializing a B2B SaaS in Lebanon’s power sector. I’ve also taught 250+ students at LAU and focus on leaving teams more capable, not more dependent.
My approach is pragmatic, investor-facing, and action-oriented: clear recommendations you can act on and defend to a board or an investor. If the decision on the table is too expensive to get wrong, DM me or email christopheelkhoury@gmail.com.
Spearheaded standardization efforts across software development aspects (e.g., logging, documentation, syntax, code auditing, etc.).
Designed induction and onboarding processes.
Conducted 1:1 meetings with developers to drive improvements and a better experience.
Performed technical and business analyses, budgetary estimates, and code reviews.
Procured third-party tools and services.
Led and mentored developers, enhancing documentation and onboarding processes.
Streamlined bilingual documentation, reducing ramp-up time by 80%.
Conducted technical interviews across various seniority levels and technology stacks.
Generated course content material for internal resources.
Advised Talent Acquisition on process and technicalities.
Prepared interview questions and assessment projects for applying candidates.
Acted as a lead developer, and product and project manager for internal projects.
Jan 2022 — May 2022
Lebanese American University
Instructor - Programming Lab
Jan 2022 — May 2022
Lebanese American University
Lab Instructor
Created curriculum and taught topics actually needed in the market.
Included Git & Github, development best practices, and growth-based mindsets.
Promoted a set of collaborative and inclusive values & culture based on positive reinforcement.
Prepared, organized, and managed assignments and exams.
Followed up with students on their learning curve and enhanced the process according to their feedback.
Acted as a mentor for students
I remain included in LAU's Software Engineering Ecosystem, helping students and the faculty connect & grow within the market and vice-versa
Sep 2021 — Dec 2021
Siren Associates
Technical Project Manager
Developed communication plans, governance structures, and project management processes.
Defined project responsibilities, budgets, estimates, and resources.
Generated project artifacts and managed backlog tasks (wireframes, BRDs, etc.).
Successfully delivered much-needed health impact to thousands of Lebanese citizens within three
months.
Nov 2020 — Nov 2021
Imagine Labs
Technical Lead
Lead on in-house development team and outsource, international teams.
Write job descriptions, gather CVs, conduct interviews and acquire talent.
Technical and business analysis for software and hardware projects.
Provide code review and code standardization before sign off.
Provide guidance for junior developers.
Provide feedback for all business requirements from clients.
Provide feedback for all wireframes and user experience proposals.
Prepare and help execute test plans for features.
Assess technical and financial scoping for low-level features and high-level projects.
Standardize infrastructure and technology stack selection.
Define and implement internal processes for the development team and management.
Provide consultation for clients to find middle ground between cost and efficiency.
Handle infrastructure implementation and code deployment.
Jun 2019 — Sep 2020
Rawa.tv
Backend Engineer
Design and implement microservices-based solutions.
Design and implement scripts for automation/testing purposes.
Design and implement service-based logging mechanisms.
Design and implement service-based error-handling mechanisms.
Design and implement a scalable, secure and highly available gateway.
Write code suitable for AWS Lambda functions as well as ECS and EC2 instances.
Understand and use video processing mechanisms and technologies for various services.
Study various AWS services and integrate them with already-existing or new services (S3, SQS, CloudWatch, CodeBuild, etc) as compliments for these services or development-required infrastructure.
Perform regular code reviews and mentoring juniors.
Require the assistance of juniors’ strong points to further enhance my weak spots.
Learn about and deal with third-party service providers.
Provide around-the-clock customer support.
Provide technical support for and hot-fixes across all environments at all times.
Lead the streaming engine team.
Create, implement and integrate automated monitoring systems for performance analysis all the while planning the architecture, creating and dispatching tasks across the team.
Assume the responsibilities of a Tech Lead until a prominent resource was acquired.
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