01 · Decide
Make the technology decisions
What to build, what to buy, which stack and which shortcuts are safe — decided on purpose, written down.
- Technology assessment
- Architecture & system design
- Build vs. buy decisions
- Technology roadmap
David Enoch · Fractional CTO, Hyderabad — Technical leadership without the full-time CTO.
Fractional CTO & Product Technology Consultant
Fractional CTO · Product technology · Architecture · AI-native engineering
I help non-technical founders turn ideas into technically sound, scalable software products — without the cost or commitment of hiring a full-time CTO.
15+ years
Designing and shipping software across healthcare, fintech and SaaS
Architecture at scale
Principal architect for healthcare and enterprise financial-services platforms
Design + engineering
UI/UX and visual design alongside system design — product and tech in one conversation
Founder myself
Products taken from idea to public beta with an AI-native workflow
02 — Who I help
Founders who need a CTO's judgment, not a CTO's salary.
Most early-stage startups need senior technical leadership a few days a month — someone accountable for the technology while you build the business.
Non-technical founders
You have the vision and the customers. You need someone who owns the technology side with you.
Pre-seed and seed startups
You need senior judgment now — before the first architecture decisions become expensive to undo.
Funded, without a technical co-founder
You have budget to build, but nobody senior to decide how.
Developers, but no technical leadership
The team ships, but nobody owns architecture, standards or the roadmap.
Working with an external agency
You want independent technical oversight of what is being built and what it costs.
The person you call to
- 01DiagnoseAn honest read on where your product, code and team stand today.
- 02DecideArchitecture and stack decisions made deliberately — and documented.
- 03PlanA technology roadmap tied to your product and fundraising milestones.
- 04De-riskSecurity, scalability and vendor risk surfaced before they cost you.
- 05ExecuteDelivery led with your team, your agency — or one I bring.
03 — What a fractional CTO does
Decide, lead and de-risk — before it gets expensive.
Early technology decisions are cheap to make and expensive to undo. I own them with you, so you can focus on customers, fundraising and growth.
02 · Lead
Lead the people building it
Senior oversight for your developers or agency — standards, reviews and delivery rhythm you can trust.
- Team & agency evaluation
- Engineering standards
- Hiring support
- Delivery oversight
03 · De-risk
Manage risk as you scale
Security, scalability and AI adoption handled before they become expensive surprises.
- Security & technical risk
- Scalability planning
- AI-native product strategy
- Technical debt triage
04 — Engagements
Start with a sprint. Stay for leadership.
Every engagement begins with a Technology Strategy Session. From there, choose the level of leadership your stage actually needs.
Fixed scope
Technology Strategy Sprint
A focused diagnosis of where your product and technology stand — and a clear plan for what to do next.
- Startup technology assessment
- Architecture direction with written decision records
- Security baseline and production-readiness check
- 90-day technology roadmap
Best for · Founders about to build, rebuild or raise.
Monthly retainer
Fractional CTO
Ongoing technical leadership: decisions, roadmap, team and vendor oversight, and a delivery rhythm you can trust.
- Architecture and technical decision-making
- Roadmap and delivery planning
- Developer, hiring and agency oversight
- Technical answers for investors and partners
Best for · Startups with a team or agency, but no senior technical leader.
Monthly retainer
Fractional CTO + Product
Technology leadership plus hands-on product and UX direction — one person connecting vision, design and engineering.
- Everything in Fractional CTO
- Product discovery and scoping
- UX flows and visual design direction
- MVP definition and prioritization
Best for · Founders shaping the product and the platform at the same time.
Custom
CTO + Doimpo Execution Pod
Fractional CTO leadership plus a delivery team through Doimpo, for founders who need the product built, not just planned.
- Fractional CTO leadership
- Design and engineering delivery team
- AI-native delivery workflow
- One accountable point of contact
Best for · Founders without an in-house team who need to ship.
05 — Selected work
Product, UX and architecture decisions — and what they led to.
Each story told through the lens a founder cares about: the problem, the constraint, the decisions made, the outcome — and the lesson.
Founder products · Tend Church, TimeTalk, ExecuraSuite
Taking founder products from idea to public beta
Acting as CTO, product designer and architect for my own products — the same decisions a founder faces, made with a very small team and an AI-native workflow.
- Role
- Founder, product designer & architect
- Period
- 2025 – present
Franklin Templeton · via Innova Solutions
Modernizing frontend delivery for a global asset manager
Leading frontend architecture across multiple product teams in a regulated financial-services environment — modernizing without stopping delivery.
- Role
- Principal Frontend Architect
- Period
- 2022 – 2025
Medblaze · Verventus HealthTech
Returning to scale a healthcare platform I first helped build
Owning platform architecture for a healthcare product I originally helped build as Senior UI Lead — now evolving it for its next stage of scale.
- Role
- Principal Solutions Architect (previously Senior UI Lead)
- Period
- 2019 – 2021 · 2026 – present
06 — Engineering is changing
AI changes how software gets built.
Faster code generation does not eliminate architecture, standards or engineering judgment — it makes them more important. When implementation gets cheap, the expensive part is knowing what to build, where it belongs and whether it is right.
01 · Code
Generated faster than ever — and reviewed, tested and owned by people.
02 · Systems
Boundaries and contracts become the guardrails agents work within.
03 · Organization
Teams scale through clear ownership, not more output.
07 — Thinking
Technology decisions, explained for founders.
Field notes on founder technology decisions, architecture, AI-native engineering and lessons from products built — the long-form home for ideas I share on LinkedIn.
- Founder Technology Decisions
- System Design & Architecture
- AI × Engineering
- Product × UX × Engineering
- Build Better
- Security & Technical Risk
- Vendor & Team Evaluation
- Things I Learnt Building Products
06 Oct 2026
Do You Need a CTO Yet?
Most early-stage startups need a CTO's judgment long before they need a full-time CTO. Here is how to tell which one you need.
06 Oct 2026
The Hidden Cost of Technical Debt
The invoice for a shortcut rarely arrives as a rewrite. It arrives as slower decisions, longer reviews and teams who stop trusting the system.
03 Oct 2026
When Monorepos Actually Make Sense
A monorepo is a tool for shared change, not a trophy. It helps when several projects must move together and you can pay for the tooling.
David Enoch (David Enoch Raj Kummari) · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · 15+ years in software
08 — About
A builder who has sat on both sides of the table.
I'm David Enoch — a software architect and fractional CTO in Hyderabad, India. I've spent more than 15 years building software: as a UI lead at Medblaze, Director of UI Engineering at NU10 Technologies, Principal Frontend Architect for Franklin Templeton, Principal Solutions Architect at Medblaze today, and as a founder shipping my own products.
That mix is the point. I can sit with a founder on product and UX, with engineers on architecture and code review, and with investors on risk and roadmap — and keep all three conversations consistent.
Today I work as a fractional CTO for founders who need senior technical leadership before they need a full-time CTO, and I build with an AI-native workflow that keeps delivery fast without making the codebase fragile.
Experience
- Jan 2026 – PresentPrincipal Solutions Architect · Medblaze · Verventus HealthTech
- Nov 2022 – Dec 2025Principal Frontend Architect · Innova Solutions · Franklin Templeton
- Dec 2021 – Nov 2022Director, UI Engineering · NU10 Technologies
- Apr 2021 – Nov 2021Senior Consultant · Marsh
- Oct 2019 – Apr 2021Senior UI Lead · Medblaze
09 — In short
David Enoch, in short.
Who David Enoch is, his background, where he is based, and how to hire him.
- Who is David Enoch?
- David Enoch (full name David Enoch Raj Kummari) is a fractional CTO and software architect based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He helps non-technical founders make architecture decisions, build a technology roadmap, manage technical risk, and lead execution without hiring a full-time CTO. He has more than 15 years of experience building software across healthcare, fintech, and SaaS, and is currently Principal Solutions Architect at Medblaze.
- Is this David Enoch the philosopher?
- No. David Enoch of davidenoch.me is David Enoch Raj Kummari, a software architect and fractional CTO from Hyderabad, India. He is a different person from David Enoch the Israeli philosopher of law (born 1971), who teaches at Oxford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- What does David Enoch do?
- David Enoch works with startup founders on technology strategy, software architecture, technical due diligence, and AI-native engineering. Engagements are Technology Strategy Sprint, Fractional CTO, Fractional CTO + Product, and CTO + Doimpo Execution Pod. He also writes about architecture and AI-native engineering, and builds his own products, including Tend Church.
- What is David Enoch's background?
- David Enoch studied computer science at JNTU Hyderabad (B.Tech, 2010) and has worked as a software engineer, Senior UI Lead, Director of UI Engineering, Principal Frontend Architect and Principal Solutions Architect. Employers and clients include Medblaze, Franklin Templeton (via Innova Solutions), NU10 Technologies, Marsh, ADP, and Tech Mahindra.
- Where is David Enoch based?
- David Enoch is based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Engagements are remote, overlap hours are agreed with the team, and he works with founders worldwide.
- How do you hire David Enoch?
- Start with a Technology Strategy Session at https://davidenoch.me/#contact. David Enoch reads every message and replies personally at davidenochk@gmail.com.
What collaborators say
Practitioner-led clarity in real delivery rooms.
Notes from engineering leaders and collaborators across platform architecture and delivery.
“David brings rare clarity between business needs and architecture decisions. Our teams moved faster with fewer regressions because the standards and ownership model were explicit.”
“He shaped the product story and technical roadmap so customers and engineers shared the same language. Positioning stopped being a slide deck and became the build plan.”
Prefer named references? See recommendations on LinkedIn.
10 — Work with me
Book a Technology Strategy Session
Tell me where your product is and the technology decision in front of you — choosing a stack, evaluating an agency, planning an MVP or getting a struggling build back on track. I reply personally with honest next steps.
How it works
- 01Tell me where you areShare your stage, your product and the decision in front of you — a few lines is enough.
- 02Technology Strategy SessionWe work through your product, technology and risks, and agree what a useful engagement looks like.
- 03Lead and executeA strategy sprint, an ongoing fractional CTO retainer, or leadership with a delivery pod.
Speaking & collaboration
Founder and startup technology sessions · Architecture workshops · AI-native engineering sessions · Technical due-diligence reviews · Agency and vendor evaluations · Podcasts and technology conversations. Invite me to speak
Email me directly
davidenochk@gmail.com