Fractional
Engineering Leadership · Teams & AI
Put AI to Work in Your Engineering.
Build the Team That Delivers.
Jason Nappier
Most engineering problems aren’t really code problems. They’re people, structure, and leadership problems wearing a technical disguise — and now they’re tangled up with how a team does, or doesn’t, adopt AI.
I’ve spent 18 years building and leading the teams that ship software, including hiring, organizing, coaching, and running engineering across companies and continents.
I'm technical enough to earn an engineer's trust, and I've shipped the work myself. AI is often where we start, because it's urgent and everyone's guessing. And making it pay off takes more than tools — it takes building the team and the leadership to put it to work. Most advisors stop at the tools; I'm one of the few who builds the team that makes them land.
I don’t hand you a framework and walk away, and I won’t bury you in a fifty-point plan. In most teams, a few changes drive the majority of the results. I analyze deeply to help you find those few, fix them first, and make the improvements stick.
By the numbers
A track record you can stand on
18
Years leading engineering teams
40+
Engineers in organizations I’ve scaled
$1B+
Annual revenue of a platform my teams built
2
Software companies co-founded
Sound familiar?
You don’t need more tools. You need the right team, led well.
AI readiness
AI is moving faster than your team
You know AI should change how your team builds — but you don’t know what’s real, what’s hype, how to roll it out without burning a year, or whether your team is even set up to absorb it.
Delivery
The team isn’t delivering
Output is slow or inconsistent and you can’t tell why — the people, the structure, the leadership, or the work itself? You want an honest read from someone who’s run teams like yours.
Scaling
Scaling is straining the org
You’re growing fast, and the team and structure that got you here are buckling. Hiring is hard, roles are blurry, and quality is slipping right when you can least afford it.
New managers
Great engineers, new managers
You promoted your best engineers into leadership — and now they’re struggling, because managing people is a different craft and no one is developing them.
How I help
Building Engineering Teams That Thrive — AI Included
Three sides of one job: a high-performing engineering team that knows how to use AI.
AI Adoption for Engineering
Put AI to work in how your team builds. Which tools matter, how to roll them out across the team, how to measure the impact, and how to avoid the expensive mistakes — from someone who's led it, not just read about it.
Coaching & Developing Engineering Leaders
Grow the people who run your engineering. As a trained coach, I develop new managers and senior engineers into confident leaders — the work most fractional CTOs can't credibly do.
The Process
From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Track record
Eighteen years building teams that deliver
Scaled engineering organizations to 40+ engineers — the hiring, onboarding, and structure to grow fast without losing quality.
Led hiring, onboarding, and company-wide coaching and mentorship across multiple engineering organizations.
Built and led full-stack teams — including international and distributed teams — shipping cross-platform products across iOS, Android, and web.
Led early adoption of AI-powered development tools to accelerate delivery and raise code quality.
Provided technical leadership for a design platform generating $1B+ in annual revenue.
Co-founded two software companies · Trained career coach · Master’s & Bachelor’s in Computer Science.
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