Teckdrive — CTO as a Service

Who it's for

You need CTO-level judgment. You don't need CTO-level payroll.

A full-time CTO can cost $300K+ a year. Most startups don't need that — they need the right decisions made at the right moments.

Founders

Non-technical founders

You have the vision and the customers, but need a trusted technical partner to make build-vs-buy calls, vet vendors, and keep development honest.

Startups

Scaling startups

Your product works, but growth is exposing cracks — architecture, hiring, security, delivery speed. You need leadership before the next stage breaks things.

SMBs

Established businesses

Technology is becoming central to how you compete. You need a strategy, a roadmap, and someone accountable for it — without a full-time executive salary.

Services

Engagements sized to the problem.

Every engagement starts with a conversation about where you are and what's in the way. From there, we agree on scope, cadence, and outcomes.

Fractional CTO

Ongoing executive leadership on a part-time retainer. Technology strategy, architecture decisions, engineering leadership, vendor management, and a seat at your leadership table.

Retainer · from 1 day/week from $8,000/month

Technology audit

A structured review of your stack, codebase, infrastructure, security posture, and team. You get a clear-eyed report and a prioritized action plan — no jargon, no upsell. Ideal before a fundraise, an acquisition, or a major rebuild.

Fixed scope · 2–4 weeks from $7,500

Technology roadmap

A multi-quarter plan connecting technology investment to business goals: what to build, what to buy, what to retire, and in what order — with budgets and hiring plans aligned to your runway and your next milestone.

Project · 3–6 weeks from $12,500

Interim CTO

Temporary full-time leadership through a transition — a departure, a critical launch, a due-diligence process, or the search for your permanent hire.

Engagement · 3–6 months from $20,000/month

Advisory sessions

Ad-hoc access to CTO judgment — an architecture review, a vendor evaluation, technical due diligence, or a second opinion before a big decision. Book by the hour, no retainer required.

Hourly · 2-hour minimum $275/hour

How it works

Three steps to a working partnership.

Step 1

Intro call

A free 30-minute conversation about your business, your technology, and what's keeping you up at night. No pitch, no pressure.

Step 2

Proposal

A short written proposal: the problem as I understand it, the engagement I recommend, what it costs, and what success looks like.

Step 3

Engage

We start with a defined first milestone, review after 30 days, and scale the engagement up or down from there. You're never locked in.

About

Anirudh “Ani” Reddy — the person behind Teckdrive.

I'm Anirudh Reddy — everyone calls me Ani. I'm currently Chief Technology Officer at Bottlecapps, and I've been building technology since 2000 — starting as a programmer, then business analyst, architect, and finally the CTO seat. That path matters: I understand your business process as deeply as your codebase, and I'm as comfortable in a requirements workshop with your leadership team as I am in an architecture review with your engineers.

My career spans global companies including Applied Materials, KLA Tencor, Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto, and Nikon, along with high-growth ventures like Botella AI and Accrue Retail Mobilitics — across hi-tech, healthcare, consumer goods, and beverage retail. I've delivered ERP and CRM systems, e-commerce, mobile apps, data analytics, AI, and fully custom platforms, much of it cloud-native on AWS — pairing product management with engineering leadership, including international rollouts and building onshore and offshore teams from scratch.

What clients value most: I design scalable solutions at cost. Whether you're working with a lean startup budget or an enterprise program, I right-size the architecture, the team, and the spend to the outcome you actually need.

I started Teckdrive because most growing companies face the same dilemma: technology decisions that will define the next five years, and no one senior enough in the room to make them. I sit in that seat — with real skin in the outcome.

CTO @ Bottlecapps In technology since 2000 M.S. Electrical Engineering Product management · UI/UX · SEO ERP · CRM · E-commerce Data analytics · AI · Mobile AWS cloud Onshore + offshore teams Dallas, Texas

Career includes work with

Applied Materials · KLA Tencor · Johnson & Johnson · Monsanto · Nikon · Bottlecapps · Botella AI · Accrue Retail Mobilitics

What colleagues say

Trusted by the teams he’s led.

“Ani brings a rare blend of technical expertise and real business understanding. He quickly grasped our processes, aligned technology to our goals, and delivered a solution that was both high‑quality and cost‑effective. His leadership didn’t stop at architecture — he built our entire tech team from the ground up and set us up for long‑term success.”

BottlecappsRetail commerce platform · Dallas, TX

“Ani transformed our organization’s delivery capability end‑to‑end. He led requirements workshops, established our offshore team, and built a scalable execution model that consistently hit timelines and stayed well within budget. His leadership reflects the caliber of an exceptional CTO.”

Accrue Retail MobiliticsRetail technology solutions · New Brunswick, NJ

Contact

Tell me what you're building.

Send a few lines about your company and the challenge in front of you. I read every message personally and reply within one business day.

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based in · Dallas, TX · working with clients across the US