Engineering Velocity. Recovered.
Deploy on Friday. Sleep on Friday.
From $750M exits to 2B daily requests. I've built the systems that survive scale. Now I help your team ship.
Companies I've worked with
Strategic Engineering Services
Diagnose before promising. Execute without breaking revenue.
Real Results
What happens when you bring in someone who builds, not just advises.
Challenge
Quarterly releases. Federal compliance choking every deploy.
550% faster delivery. Zero compliance violations. Developers bootstrapped to operate independently.
Challenge
250M requests/day at ceiling. Five teams across three continents.
Scaled the platform to reliably handle over 2B requests per day across all global regions with zero downtime.
Challenge
Infrastructure costs scaling linearly with traffic growth.
Achieved a massive 33% cost reduction year-over-year despite an 8x traffic growth. COGS remained at -1% YoY.
Tested across the toughest verticals.
I don't just know code; I know the business constraints that dictate how the code must perform. From HIPAA to PCI, from AdTech latency to Life Sciences complexity.
How an Engagement Works
No long-term contracts. No minimum commitments. Start with a conversation.
The Diagnostic Brief
DiscoveryA ruthless analysis of where your engineering org is today and the true structural rot causing the bottleneck. I diagnose before I prescribe. No pitch decks. No sales reps.
High-Impact Surgical Fix
Week 1I target the single highest-impact failure point and resolve it in days. You get instant stability. I learn your environment, prove the model, and expose the real constraints.
Embedded Remediation
RetainerI embed with your internal team. I fix the architecture, modernize the deployment pipelines, and ship the critical path code while upskilling your engineers directly.
Operational Handoff
Phase OutThe objective of any intervention is exit. I formalize the standards, hand off perfectly stable infrastructure, and ensure your team can operate without me.
Meet Your
Fractional CTO
Tony Chong
Principal & Fractional CTO
Developer, architect, ops lead, VP, CTO, co-founder. I have been on every side of the problem since 1997.
I scaled infrastructure to 2 billion daily requests at a $750M exit. Raised venture capital and built an engineering team from zero as a co-founder. Rebuilt deployment pipelines at a publicly traded FinTech. Engineered internal platforms at an Alphabet subsidiary.
I join your team the same way any new engineer would. I read the codebase, attend the standups, and earn trust through pull requests, not job titles.
Your team deserves infrastructure that holds, deploys that work, and standards that scale.
Start with a conversation. No pitch decks. No juniors. Just a direct diagnostic of what is actually breaking your engineering org.
Book a consultation
Limited AvailabilitySchedule a free discovery call.
Based in Seattle, WA. Available for US & Remote.
You Hired Me. You Get Me.
Airwave is one person. That is the point. You've hired consultants before: the senior partner did the pitch, a junior wrote the code, and a PM relayed your questions with a 48-hour delay. I don't operate that way.
No Layers
There is no project manager relaying your questions. No junior engineer googling your answers. Every conversation, every line of code, every decision goes through me. Full accountability, zero dilution.
