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by seancoleman 1387 days ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote (Phoenix, AZ) | Fractional CTO / Full-Stack Web Dev (15+ years XP)

I have 15+ years experience leading teams (and personally as an IC) building full-stack web apps from MVP to Enterprise. I get the business side (founded multiple startups — cvtrack.com most recently), I understand good UI/UX design (5 years Director for design/development agency), and run efficient teams as a PM / technical lead or fractional CTO (5+ years as PM and fractional CTO).

My specialty is coming into existing startup (< 50 people) dev/product teams as a hands-on leader and swiftly rebuilding morale, aligning/managing priorities, managing expectations, and bridging technical/product gaps with leadership. I'm told that when I join a team, product development velocity skyrockets, sometimes by an order of magnitude. For less hands-on engagements, I consult around technical hiring, architecture (Senior Developer bandwidth where it doesn't exist), product advising, and technical strategy.

Because I'm so hands-on, as a full-stack developer I will also build web apps (solo or as part of a team) in a variety of languages and frameworks (PHP/Laravel, Ruby/Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, Python/Django) — and I merge it with good design understanding, product sense, and business value.

Previous client engagements: First Solar, Sophos, General Dynamics, among many, many amazing startups Previous positions: Tuft & Needle (head of engineering), GoDaddy (product management)

sean@seancoleman.net