When technology slows the business, I set direction and deliver the result.
Ujjaval Verma · Fractional CTO & Architect
I spent more than a decade on systems with no room for failure: clinical records at Epic, device management at Microsoft, payments at Expedia, and a PhonePe platform processing over two million transactions a day. Since 2019 I have brought that discipline to founders. You bring a working prototype and a sentence about where the business needs to go. I direct the work between that sentence and production.
The problem
Your prototype got you here. It will not get you there.
- An enterprise buyer wants the product, and procurement wants a SOC 2 story your team does not have yet.
- Domain experts built an AI product that works. Production hardening is the part nobody has carried before.
- Payment and CRM vendors sit in your critical path, and the whole integration lives in one engineer's head.
- You need technical leadership that owns the outcome, but a full-time executive is not in the budget yet.
15+ years across
The track record
More than fifteen years on systems where the downside is measured in millions.
- 2M+ / day
- transactions through the PhonePe bill-payments platform I led
- $3M / yr
- recovered at Teachable across payments and fraud tooling
- 50,000 hrs / yr
- of manual effort automated at BenefitBay
- ~20 & 5
- angel investments and exits, SeaChange Fund plus direct cheques
- 50+
- working engineers mentored one-on-one through Scaler Academy
- 15+ years
- building software, from clinical records to payments at national scale
In their words
People I have built with.
Ujjaval was Kovo's fractional CTO in our early days and I trusted him with the entire technical side of the company. He took ownership for our architecture and infrastructure and led the team that shipped our AI workout generation. He also had real product judgment: he pushed back on features that would not move the business and found simpler paths to the ones that would. He showed up beyond the engineering too, running live demos for prospective fitness influencers and believed in Kovo enough to invest his own money in it. For a founder, that combination is everything.
We brought Ujjaval in as a fractional resource to transform a manual insurance quoting operation into a real AI product. He built it end to end: the agentic workflows, the model routing that aggressively cut our AI costs, the billing, and the deployment pipeline. Manual processing effort dropped precipitously, and the quality actually improved. He tuned and routed across multiple AI models instead of locking us into one, which kept our costs down and our options open. He drove live demos for prospects and sharpened our investor presentations alongside me. He operates like a co-founder, not a contractor.
Ujjaval is an excellent team lead who takes complete ownership of his product and team. He is a great mentor and a delightful person to work with. His technical excellence cannot be overstated.
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Ujjaval is the one I would bring back without a second call.
Mike Underwood , CTO, Go Aspen
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He earned the trust and respect of every team he touched.
Mihir Vaidya , VP of Engineering, ServiceTitan
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Managers rarely get reports who make decisions at that level.
Nipun , Head of Engineering, PhonePe
Engineering rigor where mistakes are expensive.
The systems I came up in had no tolerance for a bad deploy. They taught me what production discipline looks like at scale. In practice that means fast where speed is safe, careful where it is not, and honest with you about which is which. When compliance is on the line, I have run SOC 2 readiness drills with Deloitte and Caylent, and built to HIPAA controls.
Start with one call.
Thirty minutes on your situation and an honest read on whether I can help. I also bring the builders when a plan calls for them.
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