# Blizzard / consulting

> Fractional CTO and senior technical leadership for founders and leadership teams: software development, applied AI, secure infrastructure and technical due diligence, embedded a few days a month.

James Blizzard. Twenty years building software where it had to actually work: the NHS, financial intelligence, government, energy. Based in the UK.

## Services

- **Fractional CTO**: technology strategy, team building and hiring, architecture, security and governance, board-level judgement. A few days a month.
- **Software development**: web apps, APIs, data and streaming pipelines, system integrations, rescuing stalled builds.
- **Secure infrastructure**: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, secure cloud hosting, monitoring and compliance.
- **AI, where it earns its place**: AI-centred products and agentic systems, agent-ready websites and applications, agentic search over research and document-heavy sites. NLP and document-intelligence systems in production since before the boom.
- **Due diligence & advisory**: codebase and architecture review, investment/acquisition due diligence, risk and security assessment.

## Contact

- Email: jim@blizzard.consulting
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesblizzard
- Work library: https://blizzard.consulting/work/ (markdown: https://blizzard.consulting/work/index.md)