As Interim CTO at Double Blind Bio, an early-stage healthtech startup, I led a 10-week technical turnaround and organizational restructuring. The mandate: stabilize infrastructure, optimize AI compute costs, and establish sprint discipline, on-call rotation, and blameless post-mortems before onboarding the permanent executive leadership.
Identified and remediated a Sev 0 GCP and Vertex AI cost spike. Reduced daily cloud spend from $1,957 per day to under $300 per day, an 85% reduction, while maintaining critical system capabilities and extending runway. The resulting AI architecture is the subject of a patent.
Rebuilt the engineering org around sprint discipline, on-call rotation, and blameless post-mortems, then moved the team to spec-driven development. Developer velocity: up 10x.
Directed the on-time delivery of the flagship modules. Architected an intelligent routing layer for the core AI agent, significantly improving system latency, response accuracy, and contextual memory.
Silent data failures and agent hallucinations were driving a steady stream of support tickets and slowing every new integration. Consolidated ingestion into a single pipeline (fix once, propagates everywhere) and rebuilt the agent's router to eliminate context loss and timeouts. Result: support load down, and new integrations became straightforward instead of bespoke.
Drove the technical work and documentation to advance ongoing SOC 2 compliance certification.
Ran the technical hiring pipeline and wrote the handover doc the incoming CTO ran from.
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