Adam Meghji
About
Startup CTO, serial entrepreneur, investor, hacker. 2+ decades of hands-on engineering and leadership. Hiphop DJ & producer.
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Now accepting bookings for Fractional CTO hourly consulting sessions.
H2 2024 SLOTS AVAILABLE
Interviews & Press
- HatchIT: From Garage to Acquisition: Tales from Two Multi-Venture Entrepreneurs
- ⭐️ Canadian Business: Adam Meghji Is Changing the Way Art Is Bought and Sold with AI
- Podcast:The a1rport Lounge #12 - mxu
- ⭐️ Monocle: The Entrepreneurs - Peggy
- Betakit: Following Exit To Live Nation, Universe Founders Secure $10.8 Million For Online Art Marketplace Peggy
- Financial Post: Peggy Raises $10.8 Million, Introduces a Way for Artists to Earn Royalties With the Official Launch of Its App
- Bloomberg: Peggy Raises $10.8 Million, Introduces a Way for Artists to Earn Royalties With the Official Launch of Its App
- Venture Capital Journal: Contemporary art marketplace Peggy raises $8M in seed funding
- Goodmans: Going Once, Going Twice, Sold! Peggy Paves the Way for the Artist Royalty Movement
- The Logic: Peggy’s AI ‘digital fingerprint’ for artwork aims to please collectors, artists and galleries alike
- ⭐️ The Record: Waterloo tech ace expands his Universe to Ticketmaster
- Forbes: How A Canadian Internet Start-Up Plans To Get You Offline And Into The Sharing Economy
- Ark Media TV: Episode 5 - Adam Meghji
- ⭐️ TechCrunch: With Funding In Tow, Uniiverse Launches A Platform For Collaborative Living
- Toronto Standard: Uniiverse Wants to Use the Web to Fight the Web
- Boston Herald: Uniiverse expands sharing, selling services on Web
- Financial Post: Uniiverse connects Internet users to buy, share and sell in person
- BlogTO: Get to know a Toronto startup: Uniiverse
- The Globe & Mail: An online marketplace for the off-line world
- ⭐️ University of Guelph: Great Guelph Grad -Social Networking is his Uniiverse
Fractional CTO Consulting
Adam here! 👋 Over the years, I've had the opportunity to advise growing startups and mentor fellow CTOs. It's been rewarding and beneficial for all, and due to popular demand, I've opened up this offering more publicly.Fractional CTO advisory & consulting services are now available for select engagements. Take advantage of the playbooks I've accrued during my 12+ years as CTO and 25+ years of working at startups. The same playbooks that took my ideas to over $1BB of revenue and ultimately acquisition.Have a high-potential developer who you'd like to groom as your future CTO? Book some calls and uplevel your existing talent in 1:1s with me.SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY.
Consulting Format
1. Get in touch to schedule a 30m exploratory call (free)
2. If it's a fit, purchase credits for calls below.
3. Adam will provide a calendar link which you can use to book 60 minute call with your team.
4. Prior to the call, Adam will pre-read any materials you provide (recommended).
5. During the call, all of the value will be delivered. If code is being authored or debugged, it will happen via screenshare with all parties.
6. After the call, Adam will not do any take-home assignments, homework, or software development prior to the next call.
Consulting Guidelines
- Fully remote conducted over videoconferencing
- No homework in between calls (see above)
- You may not list Adam Meghji on your Team page or other public materials.
- Requests for introductions to folks in Adam's network (VCs, developers, etc) will be politely declined.
- Adam is not available for hire on a part-time or full-time basis (calls will not lead to employment).
- Payment must be made prior to the call.
- Good vibes only :)
Consulting Rates
- One 60 min call: $500 USD
- Five 60 min calls: $2500 $2000 USD bundle
- Rates are final & non-negotiable
- Payment links provided below
- Credits do not expire
Recommended Topics
Leadership
- How to hire Developers
- Team Roles & Responsibilities
- Salary & Compensation
- Issue & Project Tracking Software
- Running Cycles / Sprints
- Onboarding
- Running 1:1s
- Running 360° reviews
- Offsite & Hackathon PlanningBusiness & Tech Strategy
- Technology Roadmapping
- M&A Tech Integration
- Product-Market Fit
- Scaling Growth
- Patents & IPGrowth & Marketing Tech
- Growth Strategy
- Analytics & Attribution
- Customer Data Platforms
- Marketing Tech
- CRMs (HubSpot)
- SEO & SEM TechnologyTechnical Due Diligence
- Full Tech Maturity Audit
- Codebase Audit
- Technical Debt Assessment
- Security RemediationScalability & Performance
- Load Balancing
- Database Sharding
- CDN Strategy
- Reverse Proxies
- Varnish VCL
- Horizontal vs Vertical ScalingCloud & Infrastructure Strategy
- Single-cloud vs Multi-cloud
- Autoscaling & Autohealing
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- Instance Type Right-Sizing
- RedundancyTech Stack & Platform
- Kubernetes
- Hashicorp Terraform
- GitHub & GitLab
- CI/CD pipelines
- Serverless Architecture
- Service Discovery
- Backup Infrastructure
- Container Orchestration
- Legacy System ModernizationPayment & Monetization
- Collecting payments
- Payouts
- Subscription Management
- Fraud Detection
- Crypto Payments
- Payment Gateway ComparisonsSoftware Architecture
- Language & Framework Selection
- Microservices vs Monoliths
- Mobile app development
- Web app development
- Authentication & Authorization
- Testing strategies
- Frontend Frameworks (React, Angular, Vue)
- Server-rendered Webapps
- Ruby on RailsBlockchain & Cryptocurrency
- Use Cases & Suitability
- Smart Contracts
- Cryptocurrency
- Tokenomics & Holder ValueDevOps & Operations
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Monitoring and Logging
- Deployment Strategies (Blue-Green, Canary, etc.)Automation & QA
- Automating Manual Processes
- Webhooks
- Data Pipeline Automation
- Automated QA / TestingWeb3 / NFT
- NFT Minting & Marketplace
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Web3 APIs
- Ownership
- CommunityPerformance Optimization
- Background jobs
- Request tuning & profiling
- Application Performance Management
- OpenTracing
- Optimizing API CallsIntegrations & APIs
- Third-party API Integrations
- eCommerce Platform Integrations
- GraphQL Design
- REST API Design
- API Rate Limiting
- API Documentation & Standards
- API Security & AuthenticationMobile Development
- Cross-platform Development
- Mobile App Analytics
- Push Notifications StrategiesDatabases & Storage
- Database Scaling
- Data Modeling
- SQL vs NoSQL
- Cache Strategies
- Database Replication and Failover
- PostgreSQL
- Redis