Michael Peacock

I love working with business to help solve their technical challenges. I also specialise in working with companies without any existing in-house technical expertise to build their products, build their technical teams and manage the development process.

A Consultant CTO for your business

If you are just starting out on your software journey, already have a product built, have an established team, or are looking to build an in-house or outsourced team, you probably need a CTO. Working in a consultancy capacity, I can serve as your CTO, bringing expertise, leadership and guidance to your technology team.

• Hiring a development team
• Mentoring and leading a development team
• Ensuring your product development meets your needs, and is capable of supporting growth and future needs
• Setting up the right processes and practices for your team
• Working with outsourced development agencies, or setting up freelance teams
• Build software-as-a-service products

Freelance Developer

As well as being a consultant CTO, I am also an experienced lead software engineer. Primarily working with PHP and the Laravel framework, I can help to build, support and maintain solutions to your business challenges.

• Develop software-as-a-service products
• Build internal tools and systems
• Architect APIs for your mobile applications
• Develop systems which communicate with other systems; middleware to connect disparate systems
• Setup cloud infrastructure
• Help your existing teams with short-term requirements
• Support mission critical applications and server infrastructure
• Maintain applications, keeping them up-to date, secure and maintainable

Technical consultant and strategist

Perhaps you don't need someone to serve as your CTO, and you don't need any hands-on support, but instead need some technical consultancy. I can check you are on the right path, serve as a fresh pair of eyes, or help with project management needs.

• Board-level advice and guidance
• Review your existing processes
• Audit your existing systems
• Check your technology is 'investment ready'
• Due-diligence if you are looking to invest in or acquire a business
• Technical project management

Cloud architecture

As an AWS certified Cloud Practitioner, I can help with your cloud architecture. Is your software built to scale? Does your development team know where to start when it comes to 'cloud' services such as Amazon Web Services? I can help architect your cloud infrastructure, and ensure your software is built for cloud services.

• Set-up, review or consult on AWS services
• Check your software can leverage cloud services to scale
• Recommend architecture for your projects
• Advise on the right cloud services for your needs
• Demystification: load balancers, auto-scaling, RDS, API gateway, serverless, elastic beanstalk, cognito, S3 – I can guide you through your cloud journey