The incubated prototype has become an operating product
Users, integrations, and support obligations arrived before technical ownership did. We define what must be hardened, who owns it, and what can safely wait.
FRACTIONAL CTO · Salzburg
Fractional CTO Salzburg
Remote-first · on-site as surchargeable add-on
Remote-first technical leadership for Salzburg. Add paid on-site sessions for production reviews, supplier decisions, or operational products where the real workflow matters more than another architecture diagram.
Reply within 4 working hours. Usually within 1.
AwardedTop 100 Young Companies in Austria. #36 in 2024, #58 in 2023 (GEWINN magazine).
Shipped75+ products, 5+ years, across 17 countries.
LanguagesDeutsch, English.
ReviewsGoogle 4.7 stars. Trustpilot 4.5 stars.
Working with Wavect in Salzburg
Startup Salzburg is a regional network incubator with six service points and programmes from idea development through market entry. That means the ecosystem contains teams at very different maturity levels.
A fractional CTO is not the right answer for all of them. If there is only an idea, start with validation. The CTO becomes useful when software has users, operational commitments, a team or vendor, and technical decisions that now carry a real cost.
Our work starts there: production risk, architecture, hiring, suppliers, delivery cadence, and a handover path to the full-time technical leader when the role becomes full-time.
Two Salzburg moments when the CTO gap becomes real
The trigger is production accountability, not the age of the company.
The product has hard operational windows
Seasonal demand, live operations, events, or customer deadlines make reliability and release timing part of the business model. We build the technical operating rhythm around those constraints.
The first 30 days with a Salzburg product team
The first month converts a growing list of technical concerns into an ordered plan.
- Audit the jump from prototype to operationReview architecture, access, monitoring, integrations, release process, support obligations, and the shortcuts that are now becoming expensive.
- Set the reliability and delivery floorDefine what must be true before the next busy period, enterprise customer, or product milestone.
- Create the ownership pathAssign internal and supplier responsibilities, set the weekly decision cadence, and document what the future full-time CTO inherits.
Does the Salzburg team need a CTO or a CPO?
Choose the Fractional CTO
when the risk sits in engineering and production. Choose the Fractional CPO Salzburg
when a post-PMF product needs roadmap and discovery ownership. Choose the Fractional CTPO
when one decision cannot move without the other.
// SOURCESWhat we use for Salzburg context
We use these sources for local context. They do not imply a partnership, endorsement, office, or client relationship.
- Startup SalzburgOfficial overview of the regional network incubator, its six service points, and support across company stages.
- Startup Salzburg servicesOfficial description of the maturity model, coaching, incubation, and market-entry support.
Engagement tiers and transparent pricing
Four ways to start. Each one has a clear scope and a clear cancellation policy. No hours tracked, no surprise invoices.
CTO-on-Call
Async architecture review, hiring panels, tech decisions on demand.
4 to 8 hours per month
FROM
€2,500/ month
Start here →Embedded Fractional CTO
Lead the engineering org. Roadmap, hiring, vendor management, production accountability.
1 to 2 days per week
FROM
€12,000/ month
Start here →Tech Due Diligence
Fixed-price diligence for fundraising or M&A. Architecture, code, team assessment, investor-ready report.
1 to 3 weeks, fixed
FROM
€8,000fixed
Start here →Discovery + Roadmap
Two to three week deep-dive into a single product or transformation. Architecture, milestone plan, fixed-price build offer.
2 to 3 weeks, fixed
FROM
€3,500fixed
Start here →Fixed-price engagements are signed SoW (Werkvertrag). Wavect is legally bound on scope and deliverables. Retainers cancel weekly with no notice.
// 03How the network model works
Three things that make this different from hiring one consultant with one calendar.
You hire two founders, not one consultant.
Kevin and Christof are on every engagement. One is your product and CTO interface, the other is the senior engineer in the room. No account-manager handoff, no junior on the call after week three.
The bench scales when the work does.
15+ specialists we have shipped production work with. Security, zero-knowledge, mobile, ML, IoT. They plug in under the Wavect SoW. One contract, one invoice. We stay accountable for the outcome.
You stay in control of the contract.
Werkvertrag for fixed-price builds (signed scope, legally bound). Retainer for ongoing work (cancel any week). No hour tracking. No scope-creep invoices. The price you sign is the price you pay.
Who is in the room
Two managing directors. Both technical. Both on every engagement.
Kevin Riedl
Managing Director, Operations and Product
- Engineer since 13: TypeScript, C#, Rust, still in the pull requests.
- Founder-led podcast, 96 episodes with 9-figure founders.
- 75+ products shipped across 17 countries.
Christof Jori
Managing Director, Software
- Enterprise architecture, AI, and system reliability.
- Test-driven development, QA as a business enabler.
- 10 years cross-domain engineering.
Looking for a different city?
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// proof
Proof, not promises
4 years
Inside the City-Scale Build
Smart City IoT for Innsbruck: hardened LoRaWAN infrastructure, evaluated and integrated multi-vendor devices, wrote the per-device …
Kubernetes
LoRaWAN
Docker
2 months
0 to Enterprise
Institutional bond analytics platform, zero to enterprise-ready in 2 months; raised multiple rounds.
NestJS
React
Typescript
7 services
Unified Testing
1.5 years owning QA across seven services and multiple vendors. Quality stayed shippable through every refactor.
React
Java/Kotlin
Go
These are selected projects, not our full portfolio. We have shipped 75+ products since 2018.
What clients say
LinkedIn
If you're thinking about digitization of your company, tokenization, coding... you name it, I'd strongly recommend to get in touch with Kevin. His knowledge in the field is unparalleled and working with him a sheer pleasure as he is a super nice guy, strategic thinker and proactively hard worker. Thanks for your brilliant work Kev!
LinkedIn
I got to know Kevin around 1 year ago and have been working together with him since then. His vast knowledge in tech and programming combined with his business acumen makes him the go-to person for me in regards to any tech-related topics. Regardless if it is a project in the field of blockchain, IoT, or any other software development domain, I can recommend reaching out to Kevin to benefit from his tech know-how and a business relationship based on trust and customer centricity.
Trustpilot
Excellent work. The collaboration was very pleasant and you always had the feeling of being in good and capable hands.
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Fractional CTO Salzburg: local questions
When a prototype needs an owner, not another programme.
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