Fractional Technical Leadership for Data and AI

Glen Hanson ยท info@grayduckpartners.com


What I Do

Businesses hire me to build production systems, shape strategy, and fill technical leadership gaps. I work with companies where data and AI are core to the product or to running the business. You need senior technical leadership but don't need (or can't justify) a full-time hire. That's where I come in.

How I Work

Embed in Your Team

I work alongside your engineers. Standups, PRs, architecture decisions. Hands on and strategic.

Build Production Systems

ML models, data pipelines, APIs, infrastructure. Designed, built, and deployed. Not prototypes.

Shape Strategy

Roadmaps, feasibility, prioritization. Helping leadership decide where to invest in data and AI.

Engagement Examples

Fractional ML Engineer

Building the ML that powers the product

Sole ML engineer on a product team, building and deploying machine learning systems behind a SaaS platform end to end.

Fractional Head of Product

Guiding a roadmap with domain expertise

Blending deep domain knowledge with engineering to shape product direction and drive data R&D.

Fractional Tech Lead

Stepping up beyond data science

Brought on for data science, stepped into leadership. Designing production systems and leading the team.

Fractional COO

Bridging vision and execution

Translating a non-technical founder's expertise into a product roadmap and driving it to market.

Background

Career spanning startups (first technical hire) and large consulting firms (high-stakes ML and data systems). Also working with professional service firms on technology strategy, workflows, and automation.

MS, Applied Data Science MBA 10+ Years in Data & ML

Let's Talk

If you're building around data or AI and need senior technical leadership, I'd like to hear what you're working on.


info@grayduckpartners.com