Fractional CTO / Technical diligence / AI delivery

Make technical decisions with confidence.

WNX helps investors, executives, and product teams assess technology risk, build stronger engineering organizations, and put AI to work across software delivery.

Since 1995Los Angeles / Global

01 / Services

Leadership and technical clarity when stakes are high.

From a board-level diligence question to a working AI prototype, WNX engages at the point where technical decisions affect growth, risk, and delivery.

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Fractional CTO

Ongoing technical leadership for organizations that need better decisions, stronger engineering teams, and an AI-enabled delivery model.

  • Executive technical advising
  • Team design, mentoring, and morale
  • AI adoption and software factories
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Technical Assessments

Independent evaluation of systems, architecture, teams, and delivery risk during acquisition, leadership change, or strategic reset.

  • M&A technical diligence
  • Team, process, and system diagnosis
  • Prioritized remediation plan
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Technical Plans

Clear scope and credible execution plans for work that must survive executive review, procurement, and delivery reality.

  • SOWs and RFP responses
  • Architecture reviews
  • Technical meeting oversight
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Proofs of Concept

Hands-on technical validation for teams that need evidence before committing roadmap, architecture, or investment.

  • AI and platform prototypes
  • Scalable architecture foundations
  • Funding and delivery acceleration

02 / Operating model

Diagnose. Prioritize. Deliver. Humanize.

Good technical work starts with the business decision, the operating context, and the people who have to deliver the result.

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Diagnose

Clarify the decision, constraints, architecture, team dynamics, and delivery risks.

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Prioritize

Turn ambiguity into an ordered plan with practical metrics and accountable owners.

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Deliver

Advise leadership, guide teams, or build the proof point that moves the decision forward.

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Humanize

Build value in the team, invest in human capital, and mentor team leadership toward its true potential.

03 / Selected experience

Strategy informed by delivery.

Experience across M&A integration, high-scale transaction systems, AI-enabled products, and engineering organizations.

$55M → $142M

ARR growth during Visa / Verifi post-acquisition integration.

$60M

Annual fraud reduction at Ticketmaster Resale.

99.9%

Uptime achieved for textPlus services serving 4M MAU.

FEATURED / ELECTROSCOPE.AI

Connected AI sales intelligence

As Co-Founder and CTO, Michael Amster is building a scalable, modular AI extraction platform that connects video transcripts, calendar context, and CRM data into deeper sales intelligence. The work couples an AWS-native architecture with software-factory practices for AI-enabled product delivery.

Co-Founder & CTO / AI Strategy Lead — Electroscope.ai

Scalable AI extraction, connected sales intelligence, and software-factory practices integrated across SDLC and product delivery.

Senior Director of Technology — Visa / Verifi

Global team leadership, post-acquisition integration, high-availability modernization, and product delivery at scale.

VP Engineering — Ticketmaster Resale

Marketplace stability, bot mitigation, payment security, and ML-assisted fraud reduction.

CTO / VP Engineering — textPlus

Operational turnaround, reliable mobile communications infrastructure, and unit-economics optimization.

04 / About WNX

Technology leadership that connects business context to engineering reality.

Michael Amster is a strategic technology executive and co-founder/CTO of Electroscope.ai. His work spans M&A integration, AI modernization, high-scale platforms, and the engineering organizations behind them.

WNX brings that experience to private-equity firms, startups, and established organizations making consequential technology decisions.

  • EducationBSE Electrical Engineering, Princeton University · MS Computer Science, UCLA
  • DomainsPayments, fraud, B2B SaaS, mobile, telecom, capital markets, and AI systems
  • Technical foundationAWS, LLMs, RAG, MCP, Terraform, TypeScript, Java/C++, Python, and high-frequency systems

05 / Start here

Have a technical decision that needs a clear path forward?

Tell WNX what is changing, what is at risk, and what a successful outcome needs to look like.