Senior technical judgment, on your side of the table.
Technology that works, stays yours, and stops being your problem. I design, build, and run systems for organizations of any size, and I answer for them personally. From a single project to the full CTO chair.
On your terms
Every engagement is adjustable. Set the dials yourself, or hand me the whole panel.
Decisions
Make every call yourself, have me sanity-check yours, or leave it all to me, including the rest of this list.
Ownership & involvement
Write code alongside me, make changes yourself through an interface that fits you, or simply say what you want and I'll make it so. Runs in your accounts or mine, and can move between them anytime.
Build or buy
Bespoke when it earns its keep, off the shelf when it doesn't.
Your team
I can run everything indefinitely, or train your people and hand over the keys.
Duration & scale
A two-week project, a build-then-train handoff with support on call, or the standing CTO chair. Most engagements blend these over time.
Services
Engagements range from “build it and hand it off” to “be our technology department.” Everything below can be bought à la carte or bundled.
Fractional CTO
Ongoing technical leadership: architecture, hiring, vendor decisions, and a steady hand on everything your business runs on.
Product development
Design and build your website or product on a proven stack, then run it for you, or train your team and hand over the keys.
Hosting & operations
Reliable, inexpensive hosting with backups, monitoring, and a documented exit path to your own cloud account at any time.
Business platform setup
Domains, DNS, email, payments and invoicing, auth: the boring-but-critical plumbing, set up correctly in accounts you own.
Advisory & second opinions
Architecture reviews, build-versus-buy calls, vendor evaluations, and an experienced set of eyes beside your existing technical team. Sometimes one conversation saves a quarter.
AI adoption
Wondering whether AI belongs in your business? I'll find where it genuinely helps, set it up safely, and tell you honestly where it doesn't. Practical automation, not a science project.
AI-assisted editing
Update your site by chatting with an AI agent and watching changes live on a staging copy. Everything that ships is reviewed by me.
Contract engineering
A scoped project, shipped. Clean code, documentation, and no strings attached when the engagement ends.
About
I'm Jonathan Scoresby, a software engineer who has spent his career building and running systems end to end, from frontend to infrastructure, on hardware I operate myself.
Scoresby Tech is my consulting practice: technical leadership and engineering for businesses that don't have (or don't yet need) a full-time technology team.
Contact
The best way to reach me is email. Tell me a little about your business and what you're trying to get done. I'll reply within a business day.
jonathan@scoresby.tech