Christopher Grant

Helping leaders grow tech teams and deliver great software

CTO-level guidance to align your team, streamline delivery, and grow with confidence.

🛠 What I Do

Strategy

Align tech decisions with business goals

Systems

Build platforms that scale and perform

Teams

Grow engineering culture and capability

Recent Articles

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The Art of Refactoring

The Art of Refactoring

Refactoring is not about making code perfect. It is about making code more honest.

Each refactoring session is an opportunity to align the code more closely with its true purpose.

Remove what is unnecessary. Clarify what is confusing. Simplify what is complex.

But know when to stop. Perfect code is an illusion—good enough code that serves its purpose is wisdom.

The master refactorer knows that the goal is not perfection, but clarity of intent.

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Technology and Impermanence

Technology and Impermanence

Every framework will become obsolete. Every language will fade. Every architecture will be replaced.

This is not a cause for despair—it is the natural order.

The zen technologist does not cling to tools. They cultivate principles that transcend any particular technology.

Learn deeply, but hold lightly.

The code you write today will be rewritten tomorrow. This is not failure—this is progress.

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Debugging as Meditation

Debugging as Meditation

When faced with a bug, the mind wants to rush toward solutions.

But the zen debugger sits quietly with the problem first.

They observe without judgment. They trace without assumption. They listen to what the code is actually saying, not what they think it should say.

In this patient observation, the bug reveals itself naturally.

The bug was never the enemy—it was a teacher, showing us where our understanding was incomplete.

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The Empty Function

The Empty Function

A function that does nothing perfectly is better than a function that does everything poorly.

Sometimes the most powerful code is the code we choose not to write.

Before adding complexity, ask: “What would happen if I did nothing here?”

Often, the answer reveals that the complexity was unnecessary.

The empty function teaches us that restraint is a form of wisdom.

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Speaking Engagements

Regular speaker at international conferences and technical events, delivering keynotes and workshops on AI implementation, cloud architecture, and technology leadership across North America and Europe.

About Christopher

Fractional CTO. Google Cloud Solutions Architect. Technical Leader.

I help growth-stage companies build engineering teams, scale technical operations, and make strategic technology decisions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Current Work

Nebari Consulting LLC

Helping growth-stage companies ($2M-$50M revenue) build engineering teams and scale technical operations. Recent client success: delivered process optimization that secured $100k in additional funding.

Google - Cloud

Working with Fortune 500 companies on application modernization and cloud adoption. Led global teams of 20+ resources and contributed to Cloud Deploy, Dora DevOps Assessment tools, and GenAI for Dev initiatives.

The Home Depot - eCommerce

Led the migration of their $5B revenue site from on-premises to cloud with zero downtime, managing teams up to 40 engineers through the complete platform modernization.

Core Expertise

Fractional CTO Services

Building engineering teams, technical strategy, process optimization, funding preparation

Enterprise Cloud Architecture

Deep experience across GCP, AWS, and Azure with Fortune 500 implementations

AI & Developer Productivity

Led development of GenAI for Dev, integrating AI into developer workflows

Global Team Leadership

Managed international teams of 20+ resources across multiple time zones

Credentials

• MBA – Franklin University

• GCP Professional Cloud Architect

• AWS Solutions Architect

• 25+ years software engineering experience

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