Sri AnnamalaiCDB CLI
An interactive CLI (Command Line Interface) Client for CouchDB Server.
I own the technical decisions your team cannot make alone.
I am a fractional CTO. Founders bring me in when engineering has grown past the point where one person holds the whole picture, and the decisions that span teams have quietly stopped being made.
I take a narrow and explicit list: the shape of the architecture, the hiring bar, the on-call story, and the handful of bets that would be expensive to reverse. Delivery stays with the people already doing it well.
Selected work
Splitting a payments monolith without a rewrite
Took a six-year-old payments monolith from weekly release trains to daily deploys by moving ownership before moving code.
Building an engineering team that survives its founders
Grew a four-person team to nineteen across a Series A, with a hiring bar and an on-call rotation that outlasted my engagement.
Recent writing
What a fractional CTO actually does
Not a part-time hero. A named owner for the technical decisions a founder cannot delegate and does not have time to make.
The quiet cost of a shared database
A shared Postgres instance is the cheapest thing you will ever build and the most expensive thing you will ever unpick.
Hiring your first staff engineer
The role only works if there is a decision waiting for them. Hire for the decision, not for the title.
How I work with teams
- Fractional CTO A named owner for the technical decisions that span teams, embedded with yours two days a week.
- Architecture review Three weeks of measurement and interviews, ending in a written recommendation you can act on or ignore.
- Team and hiring Writing down the hiring bar, building the loop that tests for it, and training your engineers to run it.
Starting a conversation
The first call is thirty minutes and costs nothing. Bring the decision you are stuck on rather than a job description.