Gregory Golberg

Fractional CTO & Software Architect

I build real systems, solve real problems, and mentor people who ask "why" as much as "how." I've worn titles from founding engineer to CTO, across startups, scaleups, and the occasional fire that needed putting out yesterday.

My stack spans Java, Go, Python, TypeScript, cloud infra, data pipelines, distributed systems. But tools are just tools. Machine code gave way to assembly, assembly to compilers, compilers to frameworks, and now we have AI writing code. It's the same story: each abstraction lets us think at a higher level. I use AI extensively and think you should too. The hard part was never typing.

I'm not interested in shipping complexity or babysitting fragile architectures. I like code that's honest, systems that are observable, and teams that take their work seriously without taking themselves too seriously.

If you're solving hard problems and value pragmatism over posturing, let's talk.