Dan Kuhn · Fractional CTO · Chicago
Engineer. Entrepreneur.
Operator. Builder.
I'm a fractional CTO. I work with founders and engineering teams on the calls where senior experience pays — architecture, hiring, scale, the decisions that are hard to undo.
Software, leadership, and shipped product — board to keyboard and back. Thirty years of it: a Fortune 1000 data practice I co-founded and spun a product out of, engineering I led through twenty thousand connected devices, and two US patents in turbine design. The full arc
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The point of fractional isn't that I'm cheaper than a full-time hire. It's that you don't need one yet — what you need is senior experience for the calls that matter.
Sections
01 · Editorial
Approach
How the work actually runs.
02 · Editorial
Experience
Six patterns from building and shipping.
03 · Editorial
Writing
On AI, engineering leadership, and lessons that travel.
04 · Technical
Code
Selected repos — infrastructure, tooling, open source.
05 · Editorial
Contact
The fastest way to reach me.