LUNARTEC. Get in touch ↗
01Introduction

Gareth
Parker.

// CTO · Tech Lead · Consultant

Sixteen years designing and shipping platforms across multiple industries and technologies — from 0→1 founding work to long-running stewardship of systems at scale. Currently CTO & co-founder at N3 Technologies; advising selected clients on digital transformation, architecture and engineering leadership.

Previously & currently with
N3 CHANTO TANDEM CYBER SEC SAAS PSYC EVAL PLATFORM
02Services

Three ways to
work together.

Engagements scale from a focused two-week diagnostic to ongoing embedded leadership. Every program ships standardised artefacts — SOW, plan, weekly status, and a final readout.

SVC · 01DIAGNOSTIC

Technical Audit.

For teams who suspect there's a better way.

A focused diagnostic across architecture, code, infrastructure, security and team practices. Severity-rated findings with a remediation roadmap you can hand straight to engineering.

Duration
2 weeks
Output
Audit report
SVC · 02PRIMARY

Tech Roadmap.

For founders planning the next 12 months.

Discovery, target architecture and a phased delivery plan that aligns engineering investment with the business plan. Includes hiring and tooling recommendations, and a shippable Q1.

Duration
4–6 weeks
Output
Roadmap + plan
SVC · 03EMBEDDED

Fractional CTO.

A CTO without the full-time hire.

Embedded leadership — one to three days a week, working alongside your team. Architecture decisions, hiring, vendor selection, board reporting, and a steady hand on the technical wheel.

Duration
3-mo min
Output
Embedded lead
03Selected work

Live projects.

Three platforms built and led across recent years — each a different mission profile, from zero-to-one consumer SaaS to a generation-over rewrite of legacy infrastructure.

001
N3 Technologies
CTO & Co-founder · 2023 → Now
Co-Creator and Technical Lead. Bespoke platform for SME and enterprise clients with a focus on big data analytics, scalable infrastructure and powerful UX.
SectorCreator
StackAWS · JS · Postgres
Status● Active
002
Chanto
Creator · 2025 → Now
Platform built from scratch for language learning. Interactive lessons and real-time feedback based on SRS memory techniques and context driven exercises.
SectorWeb
StackReact · Hono · Bun
StatusBeta Testing
003
Cyber Security Platform
Consultant & Development · 2026 → Now
End-to-end rebuild of a MVP POC into a modern platform. Migrated data across generations of schema, introduced new architecture, and modern technology stack for an engaging user experience that will age well.
SectorB2B SaaS
StackHono · JS · Cloud
StatusIn Design
04Capability

Stack & specialisms.

Engineering decisions grounded in tradeoffs, not trends. Comfortable across the stack — from database schemas and cloud topology to the last pixel of an interface.

Languages
TS · JS · Python
Frontend
React · Next
Runtime
Node.js
Data
Postgres · Redis
Cloud
AWS · Terraform
Infra
Docker · k8s
Patterns
Event-driven
Leadership
CTO · Tech lead
Hiring
0 → 30 eng
Architecture
Multi-tenant SaaS
Audit
Tech DD
Sectors
SaaS · Fin · B2B
05Deliverables

Standardised
artefacts.

Every engagement ships against a consistent template set. Clients know what they're getting and when. Pulled from the LunarTec brand pack v1.0.

DOCX · SOW

Statement of Work

Scope, deliverables, milestones, fees, change control, signatures.

DOCX · PLAN

Project Plan

Workstreams, milestones, RACI, risks, decisions log, status cadence.

DOCX · AUD

Technical Audit

Health bar, severity-rated findings, remediation roadmap.

DOCX · DISC

Discovery Report

Method, themes, findings with confidence ratings, recommendations.

DOCX · SPRT

Sprint Plan

Goal, capacity, committed backlog, definition of done, retro pointers.

DOCX · PROP

Engagement Proposal

Why-this-why-now, options matrix, acceptance.

DOCX · INV

Invoice

Branded invoice with line items, VAT, totals, and UK payment details.

PDF · BRAND

Brand Guidelines

Palette, typography, logo usage, document anatomy, voice.

06Writing & talks

In public.

Selected talks, podcasts and writing. Mostly on platform engineering, pragmatic architecture and engineering leadership.

2024 · 09
Talking about "Space Junk"
Talk · TechLead· DevOps
2024 · 08
The Dark Forest of AI
Article · AI
2021 · 05
Up to @ here with...
Article · Remote Communication
07Open channel

Planning a launch
and need a co-pilot?

← All variants