Priam J.Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Nov 5, 2026.

Founding CTO who still ships. I help founders turn ideas into products that scale — from roadmap and architecture to AI features and a team that delivers. ✅ Scaled a startup from 0 → $3M ARR as founder & CTO ✅ Architected a platform running 100M+ executions/month ✅ Built and led a 30-person org across Engineering, QA, DevOps & Delivery ✅ Delivered for enterprises like Meta, IndusInd Bank, IndiaMART & VFS Global ✅ 4.9★ on Upwork across 13 jobs Most startups don't need a full-time CTO yet. They need someone who can decide what to build, build the hard parts, and set up a team that keeps shipping. I've done all three: as a product-minded tech lead, an engineering manager, and a CTO. WHAT I DO 🧭 Product & Roadmap Turn business goals into a clear, prioritized roadmap. I help you decide what to build, what to cut, and what to build versus buy, so engineering effort goes where revenue is. 🧠 Technical Decisions & Architecture Stack choices, system design, build-vs-buy, vendor and AI model selection. I bring the tradeoffs to the table in plain language, so you can decide with confidence. 👥 Engineering Leadership Hiring and interviewing engineers, sprint process, code review standards, QA and release workflows. I set up teams that ship reliably without me in the room. 💻 Full-Stack Build 6+ years of MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js), TypeScript and Python. I take products from MVP to production, and I still write the hard parts myself. 📈 Scaling & Reliability From zero users to 20M peak throughput: distributed services, MongoDB cluster scaling, Kafka/Redis event pipelines, Kubernetes on AWS, and observability with Grafana, Prometheus and Jaeger. 🤖 Production AI AI agents (LangGraph, LangChain, tool use, multi-agent), RAG and semantic search (Pinecone, Qdrant), voice AI, and LLM cost and latency optimization. AI that works for real users, not just in demos. HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER - Fractional CTO: ongoing weekly hours for roadmap, architecture, team leadership and hands-on delivery - Build sprint: an MVP, AI feature or scaling project, delivered in fixed milestones - Audit & advisory: a review of your product, codebase, architecture or AI system, with a clear, prioritized action plan WHY FOUNDERS WORK WITH ME I've sat in the founder meetings and written the code. So the roadmap I help you plan is one I know can actually be built, and the architecture I recommend is one I'd be willing to run in production myself. You'll get honest advice, even when it's "you don't need AI for this" or "don't build that yet." Tell me what you're building and where you're stuck. I'll reply with how I'd approach it.