Matt Rogers // FRACTIONAL CTO
Empowering your tech venturesI provide strategic technical leadership to early stage companies and investors.
Build the right foundation for scale
I partner with founders, executive leadership, and investors to maximize long term ROI through the strategic application of technology and best-practice development processes.
With two decades of experience building software teams and architecting complex systems, I can see around corners and know how to build scalability concepts into a product from the beginning. I go deep with your leadership team and technical talent to help make decisions and provide guidance on questions such as:
- Who do we need to realize our vision?
- What are the risks and opportunities with the tech we want to use?
- How should we approach building our product make sure we’ll scale?
- How do we organize and communicate our goals and requirements to software developers?
- What technology platform(s) are right for our business plan and market?
- What software development processes should we have in place to ensure we deliver?
My background encompasses businesses of all sizes and types, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and spans various industries and verticals including ecommerce, SaaS, content publishing, data analytics, and distribution.
For startups and growing companies
Fractional CTO
Providing guidance and leadership as your fractional Chief Technology Officer when a full time CTO is not necessary or affordable.
Strategic Architecture
Designing the high-level system architecture to support your product roadmap and long term business goals.
Talent Acquisition
Identifying and hiring the right technical talent or vendors to ensure alignment and long-term success.
Process Implementation
Customize and adopt best-practices Agile and SDLC management methods for software development.
For Investors
Technical Due Diligence
Evaluating the present software and development practices of companies under consideration for investment.
Strategic Assessment
Identifying risks and opportunities within your business to provide a comprehensive view of tech stack quality and scalability.
Operational Assessment
Evaluate a tech business’ operations with a focus on the software engineering and delivery processes.
A strong technology leader, Matt can help ensure a business puts the right technical roadmap and software engineering processes in place to be successful. He does a great job guiding both leaders and developers to realize what’s possible and maximize ROI.
Matt is the rare technologist who also knows how to think strategically about business and product opportunities. Having him on the team when a tech-based business is conceptualized and capitalized is essential to making sure we get it right.
My background & impact
Today I primarily collaborate with executive leadership on strategic and operational needs, but I started my career as a software developer over twenty years ago. That means I’m a detail-oriented person: I get my hands on the problem and research, perform data analysis, build a prototype…whatever it takes to find the right path. I don’t just operate in the theoretical.
My approach is built on a few core principles: be curious, think forward, and be honest.
Some of my career experience includes:
- Led the design and implementation of enterprise integration architecture and agile software development processes for a $300mm+ distribution and ecommerce business, balancing business strategic goals with technical capabilities while consolidating over 30 separate legacy integration systems. Resulted in more reliable business operations and faster time-to-value for integration-dependent initiatives.
- Co-founded and led the product roadmap and technical design of a B2B SaaS platform for hiring-based tax credits, which screened nearly 1 million applicants annually for tax credit opportunities before being acquired.
- Architected and led implementation of one of the first digital subscription sales platforms in the news industry, facilitating an entirely new revenue channel that reached $25mm in sales in the first year and was ultimately deployed in over 100 markets.
- Developed and implemented Agile SDLC processes at a Fortune 500 company (before Agile was cool/everywhere).
- Built a lean marketing-focused software development services company to ~$1mm in sales in less than 2 years.
I specialize in technical strategy (what is the right approach to bring a business or product idea to life), system architecture design and evaluation (what components should be in place for scalability and reliability), and the software development process (what people, tools, and organizational capabilities are needed to build and maintain software). Fundamentally, my role is to be a guide for business leaders and a force multiplier for developers, analysts, and designers.
Having worked in Fortune 500, mid-size enterprise, and co-founded two companies, I have a working knowledge of nearly every aspect of running a business and can empathize with people working in any discipline. Cross-functional insight is absolutely necessary, because whether you’re a SaaS startup or an accounting firm, technology touches every part of an organization.
I have a degree in Computer Science from Purdue University and live outside of Indianapolis in Fishers, Indiana with my wife and two boys.
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