Services

How to engage JFE Blagrove.

Five ways to work together, from long-running tech-lead engagements to lighter-touch advisory. Every engagement is led by Robertino personally, with 27 years of .NET and Azure delivery behind it.

Embedded tech lead

Typically 3 days a week · 12+ month engagements

Ownership of engineering direction, inside your team.

The practice’s primary mode. Robertino steps in as hands-on tech lead or architect, owning technical direction alongside product and business leadership. Works best where a team needs a senior, calm presence for the long haul rather than a firefighter for the quarter.

What you get

Engineering direction and architecture
Hands-on code contribution where it counts
Mentoring and levelling-up of the existing team
Operational reliability in 24/7 environments

Ideal for

Scale-ups, corporate product teams, and operational engineering groups (logistics, energy, public sector) that need senior engineering leadership for the long haul.

Greenfield .NET / Azure builds

Fixed-scope or embedded lead · 3 to 18 months

From empty repository to live platform.

Lead engineering on new products and platforms from day one. Stack decisions, architecture, the first delivery team, and the path to production. Built on the same foundations that power ECT Rotterdam’s customer systems and four in-house platforms.

What you get

Technical discovery and architecture
Stack, infrastructure and delivery pipeline decisions
First production release and release cadence
Handover path to a permanent engineering team

Ideal for

Scale-ups launching a new product, corporate innovation teams with a zero-to-one mandate, and founders who want senior engineering ownership from the first commit.

Architecture review and modernisation

Fixed-scope engagement · 2 to 6 weeks

Independent read on an existing .NET / Azure system.

A structured review of an existing system, delivered as concrete, prioritised recommendations. Covers architecture, delivery, operability and cost. Optionally followed by embedded leadership on the modernisation itself.

What you get

Written architecture review
Prioritised recommendations, scored by risk and impact
Stakeholder walkthrough and Q&A
Optional follow-through as embedded lead

Ideal for

Teams inheriting a legacy .NET codebase, groups planning a platform replatform, or leadership that wants a senior outside read before committing budget.

Product co-founding and partnerships

Equity, rev-share, or hybrid arrangements

Go from idea to live platform, with a technical partner.

Selective co-founding and product-partnership work. The background: four platforms shipped and operated in-house, including the PP2G platform (at its peak the 5th most-visited website in the Netherlands), Play2College, KidsOpStap, and NexKyn.

What you get

Technical co-founder role
End-to-end product and platform ownership
Ongoing operational and engineering responsibility

Ideal for

Non-technical founders and domain experts with a strong market thesis who need a senior technical partner to ship and run the platform.

Fractional and advisory tech leadership

Retainer · a few hours a week

Senior engineering input, without the full-time hire.

For small teams or founders who do not yet need a full-time tech lead, a light-touch fractional engagement: review, advise, unblock, and occasionally pair on the harder calls. A senior sparring partner on retainer.

What you get

Fortnightly or monthly reviews
Escalation line for architecture and delivery calls
Hiring support for senior engineers
Sparring on roadmap and technical bets

Ideal for

Early-stage founders, fractional CTO setups, and small engineering teams that need senior input without a full-time commitment.

Not sure which fits?

A short introductory call is the fastest way to know. Send an email describing the situation and we will take it from there.

robertino@blagrove.nl All ways to reach me