BEST MATCH FOR CTO IN RESIDENCE
Empowering Your Technology Leadership
Early stage ventures
Needing someone to lead the execution from and idea to first product on the market and build the team? We have CTOs who’ve successfully done this for many startups, including the ones they have founded.
Scale-ups
Need to grow your organisation, scale the software, build new products, reach profitability, expand to new markets and your CTO needs help? We have CTOs who have scaled up the organisations from 10 to 100+ engineers.
Digital transformations
Are you a mature company needing to transform and running out of in-house technology leadership? Need to build a new product, improve efficiencies, execute corporate entrepreneurship, M&As? Our CTOs have vast experience from various industries.
The story of CTO Residence
At CTO Residence, we started as a small team of software enthusiasts who wanted to help businesses overcome their technology challenges - and provide amazing opportunities for CTOs. CTO in Residence (fractional/interim) is a perfect role for gaining experiences from multiple business domains and various stages of companies. Employment doesn’t enable such variety of problems to work on and all consultancy companies care of is building the valuation for the company . Everything started with the Founding CTOs asking themselves “how do we create the dream job for ourselves?” As there was no suitable existing model in the market, CTO Residence was founded.
Recognizing the growing trend of consultancy over in-house development (2024 is the first year where more software development happens via consultancy than in-house), we provide a risk-mitigated pathway for CTOs to engage with diverse business environments. Our foundation is built on shared experiences, addressing common challenges such as opportunity discovery, financial security, administrative tasks of running a company, and having the support of other CTOs. However, the gap of hopping from a comfortable, risk free employment to a project based CTO life working alone is too much for many. The key challenge was that all of us had to solve the same problems on our own - find the opportunities, deal with the financial risks of downtime, handle administrative tasks and we had no official network to cover our backs. We enable CTOs to focus on the core of the work and mitigate the risks following a proven model from other industries (as an example https://www.buurtzorg.com/).
This is why CTO Residence was founded - from CTOs for the CTOs.
Founding CTOs
Pekka Kosonen
25 years of software product development, over 15 years in various leadership positions (both engineering and product) - from embedded to distributed cloud systems. B2C and B2B from mobile platforms to ecommerce, home services and autonomous delivery robots and satellites.
Started Zalando's engineering site and grew it to over 100 engineers. Built tens of product development teams and launched tens of new software products.
1.35 million tech startups are born every year and out of those 10% make it to growth phase. That's over 100 000 new scaleups every year. "You're gonna need a bigger boat", Pekka
Kaapro Kanto
25 years of IT experience with 5 years of CTO/CIO positions in mature, high scale companies (telecomms, banking, retail). Technology leader with strong architecture and cyber security background. Working with a broad range of people from C-levels to system engineers translating business requirements into deliverables. Developing digitization and boosting innovation.
Mohsen Esmaeili
12 years of software development experience. Full-stack productivity powerhouse. Built various ecommerce solutions for high scale (Alibaba) and for smaller companies from scratch and distributed systems for automous delivery robots. Proven AI/ML expertise. Expertise in many of the CNCF graduated technologies.
Jari Otranen
Early stage ventures & scale-ups
30 years of software engineering experience, over 10 years in various leadership positions - currently as a CTO in a healthcare AI startup. Built various distributed solutions for high scale (Zalando, Smartly). Proven AI/ML/Big data experience. Expertise in many of the CNCF graduated technologies.
60 000 AI companies were founded in 2023 and the trend is growing, will there be enough power to train the models Jari needs?
Sachin Kundu
Startup founder and advisor, deep tech expert in Machine Learning and Robotics with over 20 years of experience in the software industry (Microsoft, F-Secure, Zalando).
Headhunters, We're not competing with you
If you are looking for CTOs for various stages of companies, get in touch with us and let us know what you're looking for. We may have just the right CTO for your need! We can help with early-stage companies looking for a CTO/lead developer to bootstrap systems, scale-ups needing to ramp up the software and organizations, and mature companies working on digital transformation.
If you are interested in partnering with us (you bring the demand, we have the supply), let's start the discussion, no strings attached.
For CTOs-in-Residence
If you're a CTO wanna-be or an existing CTO in residence pro, we invite you to get in touch with us. We're building teams of CTOs who will work together with exciting private equity and VC ventures. These teams will act like individual businesses, sharing the risks, upsides, and supporting each other when needed.
Typical challenges for CTOs-in-residence often include downtime between positions, having to invest time and resources into finding the next opportunity, and a lack of a network for sparring, coaching, and getting concrete help when needed. Dealing with administrative tasks like contracts and payroll can also take away from productive work time. We'll have these aspects and more covered for you, so you can focus on driving innovation and growth for our partner companies.
Get involved
Frequently Asked Questions
For CTOs
To enroll, start by sending your CV and information about your preferred tech stacks and experience to [email protected]. We'll review your application and invite you to an interview if there's a potential match.
As a CTO Resident, you'll have the opportunity to work with a variety of businesses, gain exposure across different tech domains, and receive support for administrative tasks, all while being part of a team that shares risks and rewards.
For Companies
Email us at [email protected] with details about your requirements, including the tech stack, project duration, and the role's specifics. We'll match you with the best CTO from our residence based on your needs.
General
CTO Residence operates by forming squads of CTOs who work together on client projects. Each squad is autonomous, sharing risks, wins, and operational duties to provide seamless service to clients.