Practical Works is a two-person engineering shop. We embed with client teams to build production software and provide fractional CTO judgment when leadership needs help making the technical call. We come from software, operations, and running real businesses—not from a slide deck.
Co-founder · Product and AI engineer · 10+ years in software
Julissa brings backend-leaning full-stack and AI engineering depth. She focuses on clear system boundaries, measurable outcomes, and production code the team can keep operating.
Co-founder · Product engineer and operator · 10+ years in software
Alan brings hosting, mobile, product, and operating depth. He pressure-tests technical choices against the practical question: will this system hold up on a busy Tuesday?
How we fit: we add senior delivery capacity inside the team. Fractional CTO work gives leadership a technical counterpart for architecture, build-versus-buy, hiring, vendors, and code quality. Both are consulting engagements with direct access to the people doing the work.
Senior engineers join the delivery loop, work in the real codebase, and ship production software with the team.
Technical judgment for architecture, build versus buy, hiring, vendor selection, delivery risk, and code review.
Web, backend, mobile, integrations, automation, and AI when it genuinely fits. We make inputs, outputs, and ownership explicit.
Tests, documentation, observability, and a clean handoff are part of the work, not an optional cleanup phase.
Start with a free 15-minute call. Tell us about the delivery gap or technical decision, and we will tell you plainly whether either lane fits.