Fractional CTO · Engineering Delivery Leader

Anand
Vidyarthi

Fractional CTO  ·  Interim Director of Engineering
AI Transformation Advisor  ·  Delivery Leader
Placentia, CA  ·  Available Nationwide

I build and lead delivery organizations — and I'm still close enough to the work to know when something's wrong.

Twenty years building engineering organizations, managing $20M+ delivery portfolios, and holding P&L accountability for Fortune 500 clients. I step in as a senior leader who owns outcomes — teams, budgets, stakeholder alignment, and execution. What's different: I haven't lost the technical depth. I can go deep when it matters, which means I ask better questions, make faster decisions, and don't get misled by the teams I'm leading.

$20M+
Annual delivery
portfolio managed
120+
Engineers led across
concurrent engagements
20yr
Enterprise software
leadership
F500
FinServ · Insurance
Life Sciences · Mfg
What I do

Senior-level leadership across the full delivery lifecycle.

I work directly with you — no handoffs, no junior substitution, no methodology theater.

01
Fractional CTO
Engineering Org Design Tech Strategy Vendor Negotiation Board Reporting
02
AI & Cloud Transformation
GenAI / Agentic AI RAG Pipelines AI-Driven SDLC Cloud Migration
03
Program & Delivery Leadership
P&L Ownership SOW Development Risk Management Executive Reporting
04
AI Framework Evaluation & Governance
LLM Selection AI Governance Build vs Buy Responsible AI
05
Engineering Modernization
Strangler Fig Microservices DevSecOps CI/CD
06
Delivery in Regulated Environments
Life Sciences HL7 / FHIR Insurance & Mortgage FinServ Compliance
AI Practice

Strategy to production — not just the slide.

Most AI initiatives stall between pilot and production. I've led the full journey — architecture, team enablement, governance, and deployment. I build and prototype hands-on, and I have the delivery infrastructure to scale it across an enterprise.

01

LLM Integration

  • Azure OpenAI
  • Vector store and indexing
  • Prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks
  • Agentic workflows
02

AI-Driven SDLC & QA Transformation

  • AI-powered requirements & user story generation (Amazon Kiro)
  • AI-powered QA test case generation
  • Agentic project status reporting — automated weekly compilation
  • AI-powered engineering team metrics dashboard
03

AI Framework Evaluation & Governance

  • LLM selection: Claude, Gemini — use-case matched
  • Build vs. buy vs. fine-tune analysis
  • Responsible AI governance and policy alignment
  • IAPP AI Governance Professional (in progress)
04

Agentic AI & Intelligent Automation

  • LLM-powered IT support chatbot — 40% ticket resolution reduction
  • Automated business rules engine — 90% process efficiency gain
  • MCP Server over Azure DevOps for codebase navigation
  • UiPath RPA with AI-enhanced decision layers
Built —
AI Requirements & User Story Generator (Amazon Kiro) QA Test Case Generator Agentic PM Status Report Workflow Engineering Metrics Dashboard MCP Server → Azure DevOps
Selected work

Outcomes from delivery experience.

Client names withheld per confidentiality. Direct delivery track record — not firm history.

Insurance / FinServ
40%
Ticket resolution time reduction
Contact Center AI Transformation
Title Insurance
90%
Technical debt eliminated · zero downtime
Legacy Platform Modernization
Financial Services
65%
Operating cost reduction · 79% productivity gain
Operating Cost Transformation
Manufacturing
25%
Delivery acceleration · 40% defect detection improvement
AI-Driven Delivery Acceleration
Let's work together

Looking for senior engineering leadership - fractional, interim, or advisory?

Tell me the problem. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit — and if so, exactly how I'd approach it. No pitch deck. No follow-up from someone you haven't met.

Tech fluency — Azure · AWS · Azure OpenAI · AWS Bedrock · Amazon Kiro · LangChain · GitHub Copilot · Terraform · DevSecOps · CI/CD · Microsoft Fabric · Tableau · MuleSoft · Boomi · Salesforce · ServiceNow · UiPath · C# .NET · Python · React