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  • Reldi

    Mobile Developer

    Albania/(GMT +1:00)

    Introducing Reldi, a skilled JavaScript expert with more than 9 years of experience. His expertise makes him the perfect fit for your React Native/React projects. Reldi's strong command of JavaScript and TypeScript allows him to effortlessly navigate React.js and effectively manage state. In React Native, he shines in areas such as FlatList implementation and native code exploration. Moreover, Reldi offers valuable insight into CI/CD practices. With Reldi on your team, you can anticipate practical solutions and substantial contributions to your projects.

    Experience

    10 years

    Availability

    Full-time

  • Belal

    AI Engineer

    Canada/(GMT -8:00)

    Belal is a staff-level AI/ML engineer with 12 years of Python experience and 5 years working with LLMs, multi-agent systems, and modern AI architectures. He has led the design and implementation of large-scale codebase migration platforms, demonstrating strong systems thinking, evaluation rigor, and operational safety awareness. His background includes team leadership, client-facing roles, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering. Communication is clear and collaborative, with a focus on metrics-driven decisions and architectural clarity.

    Experience

    9 years

    Availability

    Part-time & Full-time

  • Anxhelo

    Full-stack Web Developer

    Albania/(GMT +1:00)

    Anxhelo is a senior backend-focused full-stack developer with over six years of experience, specializing in PHP, Laravel, and the TALL stack. He has led engineering teams, owned architecture and delivery for high-traffic booking and e-commerce platforms, and demonstrated strong skills in performance optimization, DevOps, and client communication. His strengths include technical leadership, pragmatic product thinking, and hands-on expertise with Laravel, databases, and scalable infrastructure. Communication is clear and structured, with a proven ability to mentor developers and collaborate directly with clients.

    Experience

    6 years

    Availability

    Full-time

  • Claudio

    CTO

    Italy/(GMT +1:00)

    Claudio is a Senior AI Engineer with experience as a founding engineer and CTO, building production LLM-based systems, including RAG architectures and scalable ML solutions. He has delivered AI products using Python, AWS, and LangChain, with a strong focus on product impact and cost efficiency. His background spans early-stage startups, optimization-heavy systems, and technical leadership roles. He is known for clear, structured communication and a pragmatic engineering mindset.

    Experience

    12 years

    Availability

    Full-time

  • Chris

    AI Engineer

    United States/(GMT -5:00)

    Christopher is a staff-level AI/ML engineer with 14 years of experience, specializing in production-grade RAG and multi-agent systems for tax, financial, and healthcare domains. He demonstrates strong skills in Python, LLMs, LangChain, OpenAI APIs, and vector databases, with a pragmatic, design-first approach. Christopher excels in stakeholder communication, technical leadership, and implementing robust validation, security, and evaluation layers. His background includes fractional CTO roles and hands-on delivery of complex AI architectures.

    Experience

    12 years

    Availability

    Part-time & Full-time

  • Vitaly

    Back-end Web Developer

    Ukraine/(GMT +2:00)

    Vitaly is a senior back-end engineer with over 20 years of experience, specializing in Golang, distributed systems, and database design. He has led and delivered projects involving Go, Python, Clojure, PostgreSQL, and gRPC, with notable strengths in protocol design and decentralized architectures. He demonstrates strong conceptual understanding and adaptability, with practical exposure to AI concepts and teaching.

    Experience

    21 years

    Availability

    To be verified

  • Dmitry

    CTO

    Portugal/(GMT)

    Dmitry is a talented Flutter developer who has already successfully completed several projects through Lemon.io and worked as our technical interviewer. He will not only be able to build out your product but also help out with the business side of things if needed: Dmitry created MVPs and co-founded several projects himself. His key achievements include scaling an engineering team to over 70 people, building a new Flutter department from scratch, and improving team productivity by 40% through strategic process optimization.

    Experience

    15 years

    Availability

    Part-time

  • Piotr

    Data Engineer

    Poland/(GMT +1:00)

    Piotr is a Senior Data Engineer with 7+ years of experience across healthcare, fintech, and telecom — with a background that began in data science before he pivoted into platform engineering. His core stack covers Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow, and AWS, and he's delivered 100 TB-scale pipeline migrations in regulated environments. What sets him apart is genuine end-to-end ownership: he designed and ran Databricks platforms from scratch, grew data teams, and spent the last 2.5 years as a Founding CTO of a healthcare startup — bringing product sense and full-stack accountability that are rare in pure DE profiles.

    Experience

    8 years

    Availability

    Part-time & Full-time

  • Mac

    CTO

    United Kingdom/(GMT)

    Mac is a senior full-stack engineer and technical leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling products across healthtech, edtech, fintech, and real estate. He has held CTO and Head of Technology roles, alongside multiple Tech Lead positions, consistently taking products from initial concept through to operational, production-ready platforms. His experience spans full-stack architecture, compliance-sensitive systems (HIPAA, FCA), and more recently, agentic and generative AI integration. Mac's strengths include architecting systems from the ground up, leading technical teams, and combining engineering, compliance, and product strategy into a single execution pipeline. He is recognized for his versatility across domains and his ability to repeatedly deliver end-to-end products as a hands-on technical leader.

    Experience

    16 years

    Availability

    Full-time

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Hiring a CTO starts with figuring out what you need them to fix. Maybe releases keep slipping. Maybe your engineers need stronger leadership. Maybe technical debt is catching up with you, or you need an expert investors can trust with the technical side of the business.

Why hire CTO

What can a CTO help you with?

A CTO should remove technical uncertainty from decisions that affect the whole business. Depending on your stage, that can mean getting your first product shipped, scaling the engineering team, or fixing problems that are slowing development down.

Get a product shipped

urn business priorities into a technical roadmap, choose an appropriate stack, remove delivery bottlenecks, and keep engineering focused on what needs to reach users first.

Scale the engineering team

Decide which roles to hire, interview senior engineers, introduce clear ownership, mentor technical leads, and build processes that still work as the team grows.

Fix technical debt

Identify which parts of the system are slowing the business down, prioritize remediation, and avoid turning every legacy problem into an expensive rewrite.

Make strategic AI decisions

Evaluate where AI can improve the product or engineering workflow, choose models and vendors, assess data and infrastructure requirements, and prevent AI experiments from becoming expensive distractions.

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The experience with Lemon.io has been fantastic. The interview process has been good, the caliber of people – excellent and integration has been very smooth.

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Marc HorowitzCOO of SkyFi
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Telecommunications

We needed extra developers to clean off all these bugs so the company could skyrocket.

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Conor MackenDirector of Engineering
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AI

We needed extra AI engineers to keep our ambitious project running.

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Mike LukimanFounding Senior Software Engineer at Everstar.ai
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Frequently asked questions

How do I hire a CTO with Lemon.io?

Register on Lemon.io, share what you’re looking for, and we’ll take it from there. We introduce you only to vetted candidates who meet your requirements. Our network of senior tech leaders is just a message away, and every candidate is assessed through test tasks that simulate real-life scenarios and high-pressure situations.

How much does a CTO cost?

It depends on the format and level of involvement you need. A full-time CTO typically runs $12K–$30K+ per month and owns your entire tech strategy end-to-end.

A part-time CTO — a few days a week — ranges from $5K–$15K and suits early-stage startups that need guidance without full leadership.

If you have a specific bottleneck to solve, a fractional CTO is the most cost-effective option at $3K–$10K per month.

What are the key responsibilities of a CTO in a startup?

A startup CTO wears many hats — from defining tech architecture and managing the engineering team to aligning technical decisions with business goals and investor expectations. They control the engineering budget, make build-vs-buy calls, and keep the tech stack lean and cost-efficient.

On the people side, they hire, mentor, and retain top engineering talent.

In 2026, a big part of the role also means orchestrating AI adoption — knowing where it creates value, where it introduces risk, and how to communicate both to the rest of the business.

How quickly can I hire a CTO through Lemon.io?

You can hire a CTO through Lemon.io quickly—in 48 hours, we will find a candidate who meets your requirements. We provide a comfortable hiring process for our clients because our community consists of pre-screened senior tech talent.

The CTO who joined our community has already passed several vetting stages: VideoAsk, completion of their me.lemon profile, a screening call with our recruiters that includes various technical questions, and a technical interview with our developers.

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