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John C.

Fractional CTO and Full-Stack SaaS Engineer | ASP.NET, Azure/AWS, AI

I own SaaS products end to end: the architecture, cloud backend, database, auth and roles, integrations, deployment and the production support that keeps it all running. I have 20+ years in software, and for more than a decade I've managed enterprise applications that real organizations depend on every day. Right now I manage two of them. Roberto is a performance and wellness assessment platform used by employers, healthcare providers, and IRB-approved research at more than 30 universities. Presence Study runs a national clinical trial, where participant data can never be lost or duplicated. I'm also a contract engineer for Wabtec Corporation, moving internal engineering applications onto their enterprise systems. How I can help: • Fractional CTO and technical leadership: architecture reviews, roadmaps, and code and PR review for founders without a senior engineer in-house • AI prototype to production: taking apps built with AI tools and adding the guardrails they need, like tenant isolation, security, tests, and a safe release path • Multi-tenant SaaS builds: ASP.NET, Node and React/TypeScript, SQL and Postgres, Azure and AWS • Integrations: CRMs, payments, messaging, OAuth, and AI agents and LLM APIs with recoverable state I also bring something most backend engineers can't: years of Unity, WebGL and 3D, so if your product needs an interactive front end, a configurator or a cross-platform app, the same person can build it. I start by measuring, give opinions second, and I'll tell you when something should be left alone. A short paid assessment is usually the best first step.

🇺🇸Pittsburgh, United States$80/hr100% JSS5.00 (9)Since Feb 2019
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$3.3k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#11,065 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#3,074 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$8.8k

Last 6 months: $20k

World#1,913 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#833 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$146k

Billed in all: $151k

World#24,428 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#5,446 / 62.1k
Per project
$7.3k

$9.9k in the last 6 months

World#23,181 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#3,830 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
2
0% fixed100% hourly
World#88,922 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#11,762 / 62.1k
Projects in all
20

Across 22 contracts

32% fixed68% hourly
World#133,450 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#19,378 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$151k+$8.8k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$140k$145k$150k$155kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

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