fabricaFractional CTO
I help early-stage teams build great products.
I'm Ken Ono. For almost four decades I've worked hands-on with founders — from architecture and hiring to writing code. I go deep with a small number of clients on hard, interesting problems.
What I do
Hands-on building
Full-stack architecture and development. React, Node, AWS, GraphQL — I ship code alongside your team, not just advise from the sidelines.
Technical leadership
CTO-level strategy for teams that aren't ready for a full-time CTO hire. Technology roadmaps, vendor selection, architectural decisions.
Team building
Recruiting, assessing, and "right-sizing" engineering teams. I've built high-performing teams from scratch and turned around struggling ones.
Recent writing
- Stop Thinking in Prompts. Start Thinking in Skills.Apr 23, 2026
How to get more out of AI by treating skills — not prompts — as the unit of leverage. Lessons from a workshop on agentic engineering.
- Hello World: I Had AI Interview Me to Write This PostApr 14, 2026
I built a system where AI interviews me instead of writing for me. Did the first interview hands-free while driving. Here's how it works.