Fractional CTO / Technology Advisor

If your startup needs thirty years of engineering judgment a few hours or days a month, that’s the job: unclog AI messes, architecture planning and reviews, cost cutting, helping you escape AWS bills, hiring help, vendor calls where someone on your side speaks the language, a sanity check before you sign. I’ve been the founder and the CTO. I know which fires are real. I’ve done due diligence that found more than a couple skeletons in the closet and real liability and continuity issues.

Remote, anywhere. A short email describing the problem is a good way to start: joe@pantuso.com.

Creative and digital services

I’m not just technical, I have design background and an eye for it, with what I’d like to think is good taste. Design-adjacent technical work: websites that don’t need a retainer to stay alive, product and brand consultation, the occasional rescue of a project that got away from its first team.

Home technology

I’ve built home automation systems end to end many times. Talking to a device or pushing a button on your phone isn’t automation. True automation is when the house anticipates your needs so well you hardly notice. Bespoke devices, highly secure networking, local-first automation, no cloud dependencies, at the scale where the installer and the architect stop understanding each other. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic…