Helping businesses concentrate on their strengths and expertise, without having to create tech development and innovation teams.
Step into a world where business innovation and technology intertwine, where skilled professionals connect with ambitious entrepreneurs, and where startups uncover the support they need to flourish. We are a group of enthusiastic tech leaders, forward-thinkers, and collaborators who are committed to empowering startups with the technological roadmap essential for success. Our journey commenced with a powerful idea and had since evolved into an influential force that shapes the future of tech innovation.
Team Members
Meet the Partners
Sina Sadeghian
Partner & CEO
Sina is a visionary leader with extensive experience in leading web and mobile development teams. He co-founded ApplyBoard, a unicorn startup that revolutionized the education sector, and has also worked as a software engineer at IBM. Sina has helped many startups and SMBs achieve their technological goals. His visionary outlook and unwavering commitment to driving technological advancements add depth to our team and ignite our vision with passion.
Alireza Sharifi
Partner
Alireza's journey spans software engineering, machine learning, and security. Holding a PhD in software engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification, Alireza is passionate about using tech solutions to tackle real-world industry challenges. He has helped numerous startups and SMBs achieve their technological goals. His consulting experience and compliance expertise add a vital layer to our services, ensuring robust and innovative solutions.
Mark Langley
Partner
Mark Langley has been in software development for 30 years, with 20 of those years at the VP or CTO level. His extensive experience is primarily in the aerospace industry, where he co-founded and grew CaseBank Technologies before selling it to ATP in 2016. In recent years, he has been consulting and serving as a fractional CTO for hardware/software startups in civil engineering and physiotherapy devices, a data analytics SaaS offering, and a legacy-to-cloud replatforming project. His core strengths lie in enterprise SaaS applications, AI for human performance support, product and architecture design, and team-building.
As technology continues to transform every industry, we enable organizations to successfully adapt, innovate and thrive in the digital age.
Our mission is to accelerate the market delivery of innovative products for startups, scaleups, venture builders, and established ventures globally by providing a consistent and tested framework. We fill the tech leadership gap, lower technology development costs, and shorten product delivery time by implementing lean product development methodologies.
Meet the
Team
Yousuf Khatib
Director of Business Development
Yousuf is a serial entrepreneur who has leveraged his recruitment, networking and sales experience to help grow teams to penetrate new markets globally. In 2017, a cold email would land him an opportunity to co-found Global Skills Hub (GSH). For the past four years GSH has been supplying senior technical talent from abroad to the Canadian Ecosystem including clients like Loblaw Digital, Versapay and TWG/Deloitte Digital. When the pandemic hit, Yousuf shifted his focus into recovery projects knowing that skilled immigration could play an important part. He is passionate about helping entrepreneurs succeed by bridging access to world class resources at Nubinary. Yousuf has a young family of three kids (twins!) and his wife jokes daily that they learned sales from him way too early!
Claire Ruan
Sales Operations Specialist
Claire Ruan brings her expertise and dynamic energy to our team with a master’s degree in Business Analytics. Outside of work, she is an avid fitness enthusiast, practicing yoga and exploring the great outdoors. A dedicated bookworm, Claire loves trying new activities and is a talented cook.
Hussain Sheikh
Fractional CTO
Hussain received his bachelor’s degree from UWaterloo in Mechatronics Engineering and since, has served as CTO at multiple startups, helping recruit, manage, and mentor product teams across various time zones, designing, building, and scaling products, all while managing costs and roadmaps. He likes to divide his time between technical design & steering, and individual contributions.
Dave MacKey
Fractional CTO
Dave is a Fractional CTO and Decentralized Architect. He has over 35 years of experience in the software industry. His has two technology areas he is focused on; systems designed around the new paradigm of decentralized trust systems like blockchain and self-sovereign identity, and healthcare systems. Dave is currently a healthcare fractional CTO at Reliq Health Technologies and Rocket Doctor, an Identity Architect for DigiCred, and the Technical Lead at the Toronto Metropolitan University Cybersecurity Research Lab. Past positions include Professor at the George Brown College Blockchain Development Program, Vice President of Engineering at VitalHub, Vice-President New Product Initiatives at TransGaming, Vice-President of Technology at New Media Architects, and Identity Architect for Northern Block.
Boken Lin
Fractional CTO
Boken is a serial entrepreneur with over a decade of experience starting, operating, and scaling technology startups. He has built teams that are behind a wide range of successful products from consumer apps to enterprise hardware. Boken is specialized in building agile teams that are focused on converging to product market fit as quick as possible.
Arpan Paul Darivemula
Fractional CTO
Arpan is an accomplished software architect with 15 years of experience. He has a proven record of rapidly developing production level software. He’s worked on a wide variety of projects dealing with web, apps, streaming and voip. He has a passion for finding the best solution for clients within their budget. He holds a masters in computer science from Louisiana Tech University in the US.
Suthaharan Tharmalingam
Fractional CTO
Sutha has over 15+ years of managerial and leadership success in software, cloud and technology operations working with small and large organizations. He is fascinated by tales of individuals with small ideas having a huge impact on the society and has always dreamt of being the part of such an endeavor himself. Sutha has an eye towards innovation and has built talented teams to create and deploy cutting edge technologies, streamline processes, increase productivity, scale solutions and to build revenue streams. Sutha holds a Masters in Computer Applications from University of Madras, India and has a keen interest in how technology can be used to improve social well-being in the way we live, work and communicate.
Angelo Berios
Fractional CTO
Angelo is a seasoned technical leader with over 20 years experience building software and leading engineering teams. Having focused much of his career on helping early stage startups progress from conception to acquisition, he understands the importance of testing a startup's hypotheses early and utilizing real-world data to feed into future iterations of a product. He has helped build startups such as Zoocasa, BluTrumpet, and Kinetic Commerce, within a wide range of verticals including real estate, events/social, commerce, media, education, finance, and ad networks.
Glenn Korban
Fractional CTO
Glenn is a technical executive with over 20 years leading teams and driving technology projects - primarily in web development and content management. Most recently, Glenn has been the co-founder and CTO of FlashVote, which reinvents community input to give local governments scientific community input 90% faster and 90% cheaper. His career experience includes both enterprise and startup environments spanning a variety of verticals including local government, energy, digital advertising, counter-intelligence, and others. He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and is a former officer of the US Air Force. Glenn enjoys doing judo and is learning to play the ukulele.
Sonal Bagga
Fractional CTO
Sonal has 20 years of experience in product and engineering with building products at companies like Motorola, Goldman Sachs, Jet.com, BCG. She has a Masters in Software Engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University and has acquired a variety of experience and skillsets during her career: She has lead platform and software dev teams in cloud and web based technologies and continues to keep hands-on software engineering experience in some of them. Her expertise in team building, technical debt resolutions/management, lean startup methodologies, cross-functional team and business interactions, compliance and risk mitigation has also put her in charge of building various ventures from the 0-1 stage in the fin-tech, health-tech, ecommerce and energy sectors. She has built and launched her own fin-tech company Namma.co which is in early Product Market Fit stage.
Mehdi Karimi
Fractional CTO
Mehdi has 12 years of experience in high-tech and fintech industry with building SaaS products and applications at companies like GE, Schneider-Electric, Sierra-Wireless, Sophos, etc. He has a PhD in cybersecurity from UBC and holds various top-tier publications and awards in distributed software systems and computer security. Here is a nib summary of his qualifications: Lead security practices from ideation to productization in IoT, cloud and API technologies. Proposal writing for various government funds including NSERC and Mitacs. Scrum master for engineering and QA teams up to 15 engineers. Director of Saman Systems Engineering, providing consulting services to crown organizations. Driven PoC and feasibility study with sensitivity analysis to various security projects including his PhD thesis about defense techniques for drones.
Teren Teh
Fractional CTO
Teren is an experienced CTO/CIO with a demonstrated track record of building tech teams within both startup and enterprise environments. He was previously a co-founder of an AI monitoring software startup as well as a VP of analytics at a global bank. Teren has 11 years of experience in software development, data architecture and commercial strategy. His favourite engagement was building a new commercial insights business based on payments data within an enterprise environment.
Ken Ono
Fractional CTO
Ken has been coding for over 40 years and still loves it. For the last 6 years he has been f/CTO’ing for healthcare start ups, a crypto-currency exchange, an e-commerce/video streaming product and many others. Past full time roles include CTO at Angoss software (AI), VP Analytics & Innovation at NexJ Systems (enterprise CRM & Healthcare), CTO at Myant (smart textiles/wearables). His current passion project is building a no-code platform for healthcare providers to communicate with offsite patients!
Eric di Domenic
Fractional CTO
Eric is a passionate software craftsman, mentor and entrepreneur. For over two decades he has helped organizations build scalable and maintainable software, mentor agile teams on clean coding methodologies, test-driven development and accelerated lean software development practices. He has a strong technical aptitude with excellent organizational, communication and team leadership skills.
Rafael Cunha
Fractional CTO
As a CTO, Senior Solutions Architect and Software Developer, Rafael has extensive experience in the health tech sector (Public and Private). He co-facilitated the sale of AwareMD from Canadian Heart Research Centre (CHRC) to Well Health Company. He provided architectural leadership to development teams, and served as the primary architect resource, and provided technical guidance and leadership to all internal and external teams involved in the implementation process. At the Institute for Better Health at Trillium Health Partners, he innovated and developed a cloud-based platform to enable partnerships for different hospitals and clinics across Ontario. Some Key successes: o Co-contributor on successful health IT based research grant applications for CIHR and CABHI worth over $1.5 million dollars. o Built a platform called CareConnector – help facilitate the Sale of the platform to CareTeam. o Build a platform Insight Health Solutions (Momentum) – established and private funding partnership (WSIB) approximately $20 Million.
Jean-François Cloutier
Fractional CTO
Jean-François Cloutier is a results-oriented technology leader with over 20 years of experience in driving excellence in technology teams. As the Vice President of Engineering at Neo Financial, he successfully led large-scale engineering operations, resulting in higher talent density, better throughput, and reduced tech debt. With a track record of aligning technical objectives with business goals, Jean-François has played pivotal roles as a Chief Technology Officer at Stamped Technologies and Chief Software Architect at Rhetorik, contributing to innovative product development and scalable, secure cloud-based ecosystems. His expertise extends to fostering collaboration, implementing Agile methodologies, research and development and creating cutting-edge technologies.
Isadora Forte Barros
Tech Lead
Isadora is a senior full-stack software engineer and has worked developing software for the past 8 years. In the past 2 years acted as Tech Lead in two projects. She participated in a mentorship program in her past company which helped developers to grow in their careers and also is passionate about initiatives to empower women in tech like Pyladies and Rails Girls. She holds a BSc in Computer Science from UFPE - Brazil / Coimbra University – Portugal.
Bruno Moreira
Tech Lead
Bruno is a software developer, mainly working with Laravel, React and AWS in the past years, has always worked in early-stage startups and helped to develop and shape company architecture and infrastructure. He has held CTO and tech lead positions and has a Computer Science bachelor degree from a Federal university in Brazil, coding since age 16 and always looking to expand his skillset.
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