David Vartanian - Fractional CTO

David Vartanian

Fractional CTO

The Subtraction Strategist

I transform how product companies build software so they can be profitable.

Work with me
Warsaw, Poland

I make the real cost of engineering visible, and I change the teams, architecture, and domains that make every change expensive.

About

I've spent more than twenty years building software in product companies. After a company has customers, the way engineering is organized either supports a business that can be profitable or it burns cash every time the product has to change. I treat that as the job.

I transform that across teams, architecture, and domains: what to remove so change stops needing the whole company in the room, and how to put a real cost on the waste so nobody can hide it behind process language. I operate through Beamer, the company I founded. This site is about the work I do as a professional, not a product brochure.

What I Do

I transform how a product company builds software so the business can be profitable.

I make the real cost of engineering visible, and I change teams, architecture, and domains when the current setup makes every change expensive.

You can hire me on retainer, for consulting sessions, for hands-on work, or for audits. I do not sell a new process religion. You get me inside the company making the cost visible and changing the setup that makes every change expensive.

New Book

The Engineering Tax

The Engineering Tax is the book I'm writing about the unmeasured costs that eat product-company margins, and about what to change in teams, architecture, and domains so the business can get healthy and stay profitable. It is the theory behind how I work with companies.

Read more about The Engineering Tax

Work with me

If you want your product company profitable, and you're ready to change how it builds software, write to me. Retainer, consulting sessions, hands-on work, audits.

Recommendations on LinkedIn. Client words at beamersoftware.com/testimonials.

Let's exchange numbers

I don't publish my number openly, but you can request it here.