From "It Works on My Laptop" to Production Scale

What We Do

From fractional CTO services to hands-on product engineering, we help early-stage startups navigate the messy reality between “it works on my laptop” and “it scales to thousands of users.” We can take your proof of concept and put it on solid ground that you can build and expand your business.

No buzzword bingo. No overselling. Just the engineering leadership and technical execution that gets you from here to there.

• Fractional CTO services and hiring strategy
• CI/CD pipeline setup and automation
• Cloud migrations from Heroku to AWS/GCP
• Application prototyping and containerization

We will likely hire them again soon if you don’t.

Who We Are

A collective of senior engineers and technical leaders with 60+ years of battle-tested experience. We’ve built everything from the first Medicare data warehouse and healthcare.gov recovery systems, to virtual worlds and mobile apps. We know HIPAA/HITECH compliance, government red tape, and how to ship software that actually works under pressure.

We’re not a traditional agency. We’re the fractional team that shows up when you need senior-level thinking without full time senior-level overhead.

Elizabeth Eady

The one who keeps us from accidentally DDoSing our own servers. Fifteen years of technical architecture decisions that didn't break the internet. Berkeley-trained in the fine art of making the impossible merely improbable.

Mark Ferlatte

Survived bootstrapping a company to 150 people without venture capital but plenty of therapy. Fixed healthcare.gov when it was very broken. Thinks communication is only possible between equals.

Alexi Kostibas

Voted most likely to vibe-code a national defense system. Has founded companies, shipped code that matters, and somehow convinced people to give him money for both.

How We Work

We don’t tell you what you want to hear - we tell you what you need to hear. Yes, we’ll tell you if your timeline is too aggressive or your technical debt is mounting. But we’ll also show you how to fix it.

We’ll show you your options to build an aggressive minimal viable product and ship product to users.

We work embedded with your team, not as outsiders throwing code over the wall. Think of us as your technical founding team who know when to leave and how to hand off cleanly.

Your success is our success - we’re invested in building something that works.

Get In Touch

Ready to have an honest conversation about your technical challenges?

Email us with your technical challenges: hello@eeeeffkay.com
We'll get back to you within 24 hours.