Andy Laken
Fractional CTO · AI enablement and security for founders and growth-stage companies
- Role
- Fractional CTO at Hyla Fund Management
- Location
- Portland, OR, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Andy Laken
I\'m a fractional CTO for growth-stage companies that need senior technical leadership without a full-time hire. I secure businesses, help founders and their teams adopt agentic AI securely, and design the infrastructure and operations that connect it all. I build pragmatic security programs guided by defense-in-depth principles: endpoint protection, network security, access control, incident response, documented for compliance – built to hold up under real threats and real audits. On the AI side, I help founders and their teams adopt agentic tools so your firm captures the productivity gains without creating liability. And when individual workflows prove out, I design the information architecture that connects them into team-wide operations. I\'ve been a cofounder, a CPO, and a developmental coach with fifteen years of experience working with leaders at genuine inflection points. That background shapes how I work with founders – I listen before I prescribe, I find the actual problem before I build the solution, and I communicate in business language, not jargon. Recent work: fractional CTO for a $115M+ digital assets fund – full infosec program (CrowdStrike, Cloudflare Zero Trust), AI-enabled CRM rebuild, secure cloud infrastructure. Before that: six years at Acquia, enterprise martech, 120 to employees during my tenure, where I built a consulting practice to 50+ senior technologists serving Fortune 500 clients. Cofounded a digital health startup, raised $900K, shipped a full product pivot in four months, got acquired, and stayed on as CPO through the transition. Every engagement starts with your business: goals, pain points, where technology is creating risk or leaving money on the table. Solutions ship in weeks. Small client list. Full attention.
Experience
Fractional CTO
Sep 2024 — Present
Small digital asset firms are high-value targets with enterprise-level threats and startup-level security. Hyla Fund Management brought me in as their first fractional CTO to close that gap, building the technical foundation from scratch across infosec, infrastructure, AI-integrated workflows, and operations.• Designed and implemented a comprehensive infosec program—Cloudflare Zero Trust, CrowdStrike endpoint protection, Sublime Security, and Google Workspace hardening—in preparation for anticipated SEC registration for affiliated firm Amphibian Capital• Led AI-first CRM migration to Attio, integrating intelligence and automation into investor relations and sales workflows• Built secure cloud environments for custom application development• Architected sales operations tooling and internal workflow automation
Education
Wesleyan University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Film Studies
Aletheia Coaching
Advanced Coaching Program - Level 1
Skills
- Html5
- Xhtml
- Professional Mentoring
- Lamp
- E-Commerce
- Apache
- Open Source
- Content Management Systems (Cms)
- Team Leadership
- Cms
- Css
- Jquery
- Web Applications
- Php
- Mobile Applications
- Html
- Information Architecture
- Databases
- Customer Support
- Drupal
- Sql
- Linux
- Programming
- Os X
- Mac Os X
- Git
- Photoshop
- Agile Methodologies
- Team Building
- Ruby
- Ajax
- Website Development
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Javascript
- Html 5
- Scrum
- Subversion
- Web Development
- Mysql
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