Fractional CTO for Mining & Metals

The first job is usually hiring. Getting your first two engineers right matters more than any architecture decision, because they will make most of the subsequent ones.

In mining & metals, the environment is hostile to hardware and safety compliance is non-negotiable. That single fact reshapes how fractional cto has to be built here, the guardrails, the approval points and the evidence trail are design inputs rather than things bolted on before go-live.

The workload we are most often asked to take on first is PPE and safety compliance monitoring, usually integrated against fleet management. We build the smallest thing that proves the case, put it in front of real users, and expand only what earns its keep.

Built by engineers who ship production systems, not by a practice that subcontracts the build. Six weeks to something running in production, not six quarters to a strategy document.