Witczax

challenges of engineering management

Krzysztof Witczak

You can hire me as a consultant!

How to contact me?

I prefer remote consultancy in GMT +/- 4h. Reach me on linkedin or schedule a call on calendly.

How much does it cost?

I charge 100 GBP/hour and submit invoice on the end of the month with SOW. The intro meeting is free.

What can I help you with?

  • Fractional CTO service - ideal if you need interim CTO, or technical part-time assistance for a couple of months. Some of the problems I may help you solving:
    • Problem identification - if its unknown where the problem even is!
    • Technical advisory on startup launch
    • North Star, OKR & KPI frameworks implementation
    • Managing engineering teams and budgets
    • Remote organization setup
    • Identification of engineering vision and strategy
    • Addressing technical debt
    • Implementing performance frameworks like DevEx, DORA or SPACE
    • Improving engineering organisation structure, preparing for scale-up
    • Hiring & onboarding software engineers or improving those processes
    • SDLC optimisation & monitoring
    • Software engineering & managers coaching or mentoring
    • Software engineering career growth plans
    • Establishing healthy engineering culture
    • IT system administration (GSuite, Azure)
    • Designing company career paths and skill scorecards
    • Agile frameworks, retrospective facilitation and continous improvement
  • Mergers & Acquisitions advisory- ideal if you are before due dilligence and you lack resources or want to stay annonymous.
    • Technical due dilligence execution (software architecture, quality, security, IT systems)
    • Organizational due dilligence (management, leadership, HR, ISMS)
    • Analysis, documentation & reporting
    • Post merger integration (PMI) planning & execution
  • ISO 27001 first certification implementation or ISMS improvement- ideal if you want to step up on your path towards secure organization, full scope usually takes 6-12 months.
    • Gap analysis
    • Risk identification & treatment plan
    • Security monitoring
    • Assets management
    • Vendor and third party management
    • Incident management procedure
    • Implementing secure systems, processes and controls
    • Secure software engineering
    • Business continuity procedures
    • Backup policies
    • Training staff on identified security awareness gaps
    • Preparing necessary ISMS policies and ISO 27001 certification documents
    • Contacting with ISO 27001 auditing bodies
    • GDPR/CCPA compliance
  • Specific request/topic/problem resolution- if you are looking more for a shorter consultancy or you have a specific problem in mind to be solved.
    • Technical/leadership talks, webinars or trainings
    • Newest industry reports (DORA, Tech Radars, Gartner and other trends)
    • Web applications, SaaS, distributed systems
    • Wardley mapping
    • No-code automation
    • Modern SaaS product discovery
    • ADRs, RFDs
    • Threat modelling exercises
    • Domain Driven Design workshops
    • Gen-AI tooling
    • Buy vs build workshops
    • Change management (rolling out a big change)
    • DevSecFinOps, CI/CD
    • Defining unique value proposition
    • Best practices discussion
    • Any other, specific topic from the entire offer