Chris Kincanon

Fractional Chief Technology Officer

Greater Seattle Area

Available for:

• Consulting (<15 hours per week)

• Fractional engagements (20-25 hours per week)

Chris is a product-driven technology leader with a track record of scaling teams, launching high-impact products, and driving efficiency in complex organizations. He helps companies build technology strategies that don’t just align with business goals, but also accelerate them. Whether bringing a new product to market, optimizing an enterprise platform, or improving execution in a scaling company, Chris ensures that product and engineering work together to drive meaningful outcomes.

With over 20 years of experience, Chris has led technology and product initiatives across healthcare, financial services, compliance, education technology, and gaming. He has played a critical role in developing compliance and risk management platforms that expanded market adoption while streamlining regulatory processes, as well as designing automation systems that enabled companies to scale without increasing operational overhead. He has helped organizations eliminate engineering bottlenecks, improve execution speed, and create scalable solutions that drive both engagement and business results.

Chris has built product-driven engineering teams that operate with clear priorities, aligned goals, and a strong focus on execution. By ensuring that teams work from a well-defined product strategy, he has helped organizations reduce development cycles by 40% and increase engineering throughput by 30%, without additional headcount. His approach prioritizes streamlining decision-making, reducing friction between product and engineering, and ensuring teams focus on solving the right problems at the right time. With deep experience leading cross-functional teams, he ensures that product and technology work in sync, not in silos, allowing organizations to scale quickly while staying adaptable.

His approach is rooted in practical execution and long-term impact. He helps companies design lean, scalable processes that improve collaboration, eliminate waste, and empower teams to move faster with clarity and confidence. By fostering alignment, improving execution, and reducing complexity, he enables organizations to scale efficiently while maintaining focus on product excellence and business outcomes.

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