Delivery keeps slipping
The team is busy, estimates keep moving, and nobody can give ownership a straight answer on when the work will land.
Fractional CTO & principal software architect
Technology needs an owner. Not another advisor.
Hands-on fractional CTO leadership for critical software, stalled delivery, and vendor transitions. NLC owns the roadmap, architecture, team, and production outcomes.
Nick replies directly and can coordinate a call.
Nick ChiafulloNearly 20 years building softwareHands-on from architecture through production
- Critical platform brought under client control16 billion records moved with no downtime.
- Vendor dependence and cloud costs reducedMonthly cloud spend reduced from $6,500 to $2,600.
- Daily data operation made reliableNearly 10,000 production runs on a pipeline NLC stabilized and still owns.
How we start
Start with the decision in front of you.
20-minute fit call
You explain what is happening, what is at stake and who is involved. Nick will tell you directly whether NLC is a fit.
Focused review
Nick looks at the software, delivery, team and vendors and works with the people already in place. Replacing the existing team is not a requirement.
Right-sized engagement
Start with one decision or assessment, or continue with ongoing technical ownership. Scope, cadence and commercial terms are agreed before work begins.
When to bring us in
The problem is rarely a lack of ideas. It is a lack of technical ownership.
These are the moments when experienced leadership pays for itself by preventing another bad quarter, bad contract, or bad build.
A vendor knows more than you do
The software is important to the business, but the architecture, costs, and real state of delivery live outside the company.
The technical seat is empty
You have developers, vendors, or both, but no senior technical leader owns the decisions across them.
You are preparing for growth
A planned investment, acquisition or growth phase needs senior technical direction alongside your existing team.
The next decision is expensive
A build, migration, acquisition, platform change, or AI initiative needs experienced judgment before it becomes hard to unwind.
See your situation here?Request a 20-minute call
How NLC helps
Three ways to put a technical owner on the problem.
Each one is the same senior ownership, scoped to what the situation needs. Nick leads the work and stays close to it in all three.
Ongoing
Fractional technology ownership
A senior technical owner working with leadership and the delivery team week to week, accountable for what ships.
- Roadmap and priorities
- Build-versus-buy and vendor decisions
- Team and delivery accountability
Best fitBest when technology matters every week, but a full-time CTO is not the right hire yet.
Request a 20-minute callHands-on
Hands-on software architecture and delivery
Architecture and implementation inside your team or another firm’s client engagement, from the system design through the code review.
- Architecture and data design
- Code and production review
- Hands-on implementation
Best fitBest when critical software needs an architect who makes the decisions and helps ship the work.
Request a 20-minute callTime-sensitive
Vendor transition and modernization
An honest read of where the work actually stands, then the leadership to act on it during a vacancy, a transition, or a stalled initiative.
- Delivery and architecture assessment
- Bringing the platform in house
- Stabilizing a stalled initiative
Best fitBest when the work has stalled or has to move off a vendor, and the business cannot wait for another round of status meetings.
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Nick ChiafulloFounder, Fractional CTO & Principal Software Architect
The NLC model
Founder-led does not mean solo.
Nick leads the technical work and remains accountable for the decisions. When the engagement needs more capacity, NLC adds engineers and specialists around that senior ownership.
Request a call
Request a 20-minute call with Nick.
Name, work email and one or two sentences about the situation are enough. Nick replies directly to coordinate a time.
Prefer direct? nick@nlc.consulting or (856) 522-4261
Selected client situations
What this looks like in practice.
01
Vendor transition
A critical aviation platform needed to come back under the client’s control.
One outside vendor held the application, the infrastructure, and the operational knowledge behind a large aviation-data platform.
What changed
NLC led a four-month transition of the application and 16-billion-record data environment without downtime, while reducing monthly cloud spend from $6,500 to $2,600.
02
Operational software
A six-office medical practice needed billing and clinical work to move as one system.
Claims, coding review, payments, outside legal access, and reporting depended on manual work around a legacy practice-management platform.
What changed
NLC designed and shipped the workflow around the system the practice already used, including a nightly billing run capable of reviewing up to 300 visits.
03
Technical ownership
A family-office platform had outgrown the development shop that built it.
The business needed a long-term technical owner for accounting, investment data, reconciliation, reporting, and the daily custodial pipeline.
What changed
NLC took over the roadmap and codebase, stabilized the custodial-data pipeline behind nearly 10,000 production runs, and became the long-term technical owner.
Talk through the next decision.
Send a few details about the decision ahead. Nick will reply directly.
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