Fractional CTO, cybersecurity program leadership, and AI governance for compliance-pressured B2B software and SaaS companies. Azure architecture is a specialty.
B2B software and SaaS companies that rely on their platform to run the business
Compliance- and data-sensitive organizations (healthcare, financial, insurance)
Companies moving from on-prem to Azure or scaling their Microsoft cloud footprint
Teams with developers in place but lacking senior architecture or security leadership
Founders and owners who need a part-time CTO or security lead, not a full-time hire
Fractional leadership, AI governance, and architecture-led delivery for B2B software companies.
Own your technology roadmap, guide key decisions, and mentor your team on a part-time, high-impact basis. Includes evaluating where AI adoption adds practical value and where it adds risk. We use AI-assisted development tools in our own engineering workflow, so the guidance comes from experience, not theory.
Learn more →Build and run a practical security program focused on posture, governance, and compliance expectations. Policies, controls, vendor oversight, and SOC 2 audit readiness.
Learn more →Govern AI tools before a customer asks how you govern them. Usage policies, AI coding agent rules, integration security review, and risk assessment built on the security program you already have.
Learn more →Design and review architectures for web platforms, APIs, and Azure environments your team can build and maintain.
Learn more →A scoped engagement with a written deliverable. Azure architecture review or cloud migration readiness assessment. No retainer required.
Learn more →Modernize legacy .NET systems and integrate with platforms like HubSpot, Salesforce, SAP, and custom APIs.
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Explore Engagement OptionsMost engagements are monthly retainers with a clear scope and time commitment. Some are fixed-scope engagements with a written deliverable. You get consistent senior leadership without the uncertainty of open-ended hourly work.
Not every engagement is a retainer. Some are scoped up front, produce a written deliverable, and end there. Architecture & Migration Assessments give you a senior outside read on your Azure environment or migration path. AI Governance produces the usage policies, coding-agent rules, and review process your enterprise customers are starting to ask for. Fixed fee, no ongoing commitment.
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Over 10 years leading architecture, migrations, and operations for business-critical platforms running entirely on Azure. Initial design through production support.
Led a full production migration to Azure for a SaaS platform serving enterprise customers. Multi-region HA, zone redundancy, zero unplanned downtime.
Built information security programs from the ground up, including four consecutive SOC 2 audits with zero findings, three of them Type 2. Experience spans policies, controls, vendor oversight, and audit preparation.
Built an information security program from the ground up for a company with no prior formal program. Four consecutive SOC 2 audits, zero findings. Three of them Type 2.
Designed and delivered secure platforms for healthcare and financial services. Built to meet compliance requirements and remain in production for years.
Architected platforms for healthcare and financial services that have remained in production for over a decade, meeting evolving compliance requirements throughout.
Led a mid-market SaaS company through a full Azure migration with zero unplanned downtime.
Built an information security program from scratch. Four consecutive SOC 2 audits, zero findings. Three of them Type 2.
Architected platforms that have stayed in production for over a decade across healthcare and financial services.
25+ years in technology leadership, including VP of Technology and VP of Application Development
10+ years of hands-on Azure architecture, migration, and security experience
Security programs designed to satisfy customer questionnaires, compliance frameworks, and cyber insurance requirements
Deep .NET and SQL Server expertise from architecture through implementation
Architectures built to last, not quick fixes that create technical debt
You work directly with a senior practitioner. No handoffs to junior consultants
Senior expertise on a part-time, ongoing basis. Typically a few days per month rather than a full-time executive hire.
Most are monthly retainers with a clear scope and time commitment. Some are fixed-scope instead, with a written deliverable and a defined endpoint.
Yes. Architecture & Migration Assessments and AI Governance are both fixed-scope and fixed-fee, with no retainer required.
Primarily SOC 2. Four consecutive SOC 2 audits with zero findings, three of them Type 2, and information security programs built from the ground up.
Yes, for most of what I do. Leadership, security program, and AI governance engagements aren't stack-dependent. The Microsoft qualifier applies to hands-on Azure and .NET work.
Yes. Technology leadership engagements cover where AI adds practical value and where it adds risk. Governing the tools your team already uses is a dedicated AI Governance engagement.
Tell me what you're dealing with, and I'll tell you whether I can help and what that would look like.
Linera Tech is founded by Daniel Lozano, a technology leader with over 25 years of experience across financial services, healthcare, and SaaS, including executive roles as VP of Technology and VP of Application Development. The practice is based in Los Angeles, California. It provides fractional CTO, cybersecurity program leadership, and AI governance for compliance-pressured B2B software and SaaS companies. That work isn't stack-dependent. Azure architecture, migration, and .NET modernization are the specialty, and that's where the hands-on Microsoft experience applies: Azure, .NET, SQL Server, and Microsoft 365.
Daniel has led cloud migrations, designed platforms that have stayed in production for more than a decade, and built security programs that satisfy customer questionnaires and compliance requirements. He works directly with clients. No handoffs to junior staff.
Linera Tech is also the home of LineraFlow, a multi-tenant SaaS inventory management platform Daniel is building with AI-assisted development using Claude Code and Codex. LineraFlow is live with its first customer, a business migrating from the original inventory system Daniel built for them two decades ago. The product serves as both an independent business and a working demonstration of the architecture and AI-tooling approaches Linera Tech brings to client engagements. Learn more about LineraFlow →
Lessons from the work. Fractional technology leadership, security programs, and Azure architecture.
An enterprise customer sent a security questionnaire titled for AI-accelerated attacks. Four of its eighteen questions were about AI. The rest were the security program I already had, with a new reason attached.
Read post →I built a live multi-tenant SaaS product with AI coding agents and never wrote a line of it. Why nothing broke, and why the real risk with AI-written code is the code that runs clean and is quietly wrong.
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