# Mathew Dostal — Fractional CTO & Principal Architect

> I fix broken tech stacks for growth-stage companies, leading with Agentic AI & Edge AI systems — backed by mobile, distributed systems, and fintech infrastructure depth. 37+ companies, hundreds of codebases, 10+ apps shipped, and code that has served millions of users. 15+ years leadership, 20+ years coding. Based in Omaha, NE; serving Omaha, Austin, and remote US. Available for fractional CTO engagements.

Dostal Technology LLC (Mathew Dostal, Omaha, NE). Not affiliated with Dostal Security, LLC.

## About

Mathew Dostal is a Fractional CTO and Principal Architect who helps growth-stage companies scale their technology, teams, and architecture. His experience spans enterprise retail (Costco, Kohl's), QSR and point-of-sale (Chick-fil-A — $20M POS modernization; Best Ring POS), travel (Hertz — 6,000% throughput improvement), e-commerce (Wayfair), healthcare (DaVita dialysis infrastructure, Biomet medical devices, Wolters Kluwer medical publishing), Edge AI and IoT (Frontiers Market livestock monitoring with Raspberry Pi clusters, ClearBlade), and DevOps/security auditing (Encore Capital).

He offers fractional CTO services, technical advisory, architecture reviews, and interim CTO engagements.

## What He's Known For

Two things, not a scattershot list:

1. **Technology strategy and build for growth-stage companies.** The generalist who can walk into a startup or small business, figure out what tech it actually needs, and build it — not just advise. Current proof: Pantheon, an agentic AI orchestration platform built and open-sourced piece by piece; CADEX Legacy, a youth-sports platform built from zero; All That Technology, a Shopify rebuild plus growth infrastructure.
2. **Solutions architecture and leading large-scale engagements.** Architecting and delivering at Fortune 500 scale: Costco (mobile commerce), Hertz (rates engine, 6,000% throughput), Caterpillar (B2B parts platform), Chick-fil-A (EY engagement, $20M digital transformation across 2,600+ locations), DaVita (100+ microservices, 99.9% uptime for patient data systems).

## Hire For

- **Tech Checkup** — $500 — [mdostal.com/tech-checkup](https://mdostal.com/tech-checkup): a quick, single-focus spot check on one worrying thing (a vendor, a tool, a developer)
- **Growth Checkup** — $1,500 — [mdostal.com/smb/checkup](https://mdostal.com/smb/checkup): a full week across site, analytics, AI opportunity, and local competition, with a written 10-point plan
- **Build & Handoff** — $5,000+ — [mdostal.com/smb](https://mdostal.com/smb#packages): a fixed-scope build, delivered and handed off
- **SMB Advisory Partnership** — $1,500/mo — [mdostal.com/smb](https://mdostal.com/smb#packages): ongoing fractional support, hours capped
- **Technical Advisory / Fractional CTO** — from $4,500/mo (8–12 hr) up to $10,000–20,000/mo — [mdostal.com/fractional-cto](https://mdostal.com/fractional-cto): strategic advisory through active fractional leadership
- **Strategic sprints** (audits, architecture reviews, due diligence) — $8,000–15,000 flat, 4–6 weeks — [mdostal.com/fractional-cto](https://mdostal.com/fractional-cto)

## Key Pages

- [Home](https://mdostal.com): Portfolio overview and introduction
- [Fractional CTO](https://mdostal.com/fractional-cto): Service offerings, engagement models, and how to work together
- [Small Business](https://mdostal.com/smb): SMB-focused packages and pricing
- [Portfolio](https://mdostal.com/portfolio): Case studies and project highlights
- [Resume](https://mdostal.com/resume): Complete career history and accomplishments
- [Writing](https://mdostal.com/blog): Technical blog on architecture, AI, leadership, and scaling
- [Videos](https://mdostal.com/videos): Build logs and technical walkthroughs
- [Contact](https://mdostal.com/contact): Get in touch or book a call
- [Book a Call](https://book.mdostal.com): Schedule a conversation directly

## Case Studies

- [Pantheon - AI Orchestration Platform](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/pantheon-ai-orchestration): Building an agentic AI orchestration platform to run my own fractional CTO delivery work at scale, open-sourcing compone
- [Hertz - Digital Transformation & Performance](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/hertz-digital-transformation): Led digital transformation and performance engineering for a global rental leader, achieving a 6,000% throughput improve
- [Chick-fil-A - Offline-First Ordering & Device Mesh](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/chickfila-offline-ordering): $20M EY engagement: architected offline-capable ordering with Ditto and event queues for device-to-device communication,
- [Frontiers Market - Edge AI NVR System](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/frontiers-edge-ai-nvr): Local-first video monitoring infrastructure for livestock management in low-connectivity rural environments using Raspbe
- [Frontiers Market - Escrow & Payment Rails](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/frontiers-escrow-payments): Financial settlement infrastructure using Stripe Connect with separate charges and transfers to create a trustless escro
- [Wayfair - Supply Chain Optimization](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/wayfair-supply-chain): Built internal tools that rectified supply chain workflows, improved image pipelines, reduced fraud, and optimized day-t
- [Costco Mobile Commerce](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/costco-mobile-commerce): Mobile architect for one of the world's largest retailers, designing the mobile web shopping experience on IBM WebSphere
- [Frontiers Market - Livestock Mobile App](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/frontiers-mobile-app): Native iOS application with on-device computer vision for livestock identification and management, featuring store-and-f
- [Frontiers Market - Marketplace Platform](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/frontiers-marketplace): Multi-tenant marketplace platform for cattle trading with comprehensive registry, lineage tracking, and real-time invent
- [Reserved - Venue Management SaaS](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/reserved-venue-management): Multi-tenant SaaS platform for venue reservation management with dynamic rules engine for complex regulatory compliance 
- [Shindig - Event Discovery](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/shindig-event-discovery): Kotlin Multiplatform mobile application aggregating events from Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, and Facebook with geo-spatial 
- [Tabletop Archive - P2P Rental Marketplace](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/tabletop-archive-marketplace): Peer-to-peer rental marketplace for gaming equipment with Stripe escrow, state machine-driven inventory management, and 
- [Frontiers Market - Client RAG Chatbots](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/frontiers-rag-chatbots): Client-facing chatbots grounded in each customer’s own data, built by evaluating multiple agent and memory architectures
- [Frontiers Market - Agentic Dev Swarm Tooling](https://mdostal.com/portfolio/frontiers-agentic-dev-tooling): Internal tooling built around coordinated AI-agent swarms to improve the engineering team’s dev velocity and code qualit

## Blog Posts

- [How to Hire Engineers](https://mdostal.com/blog/how-to-hire-engineers): Google's own research found zero correlation between interview scores and job performance. After hiring dozens of engine
- [Why You Probably Don't Need a Full-Time CTO](https://mdostal.com/blog/why-your-startup-doesnt-need-a-full-time-cto): The work I do now as a fractional CTO isn't new. But it's different from consulting in ways that matter — and the compan
- [The Architecture Behind a 6,000% Throughput Improvement at Hertz](https://mdostal.com/blog/architecture-behind-6000-percent-throughput-hertz): Rates changed 10,000 times per second — too fast to cache. But the tens of thousands of rules that determined which rate
- [I Built a 35-Agent AI Coding Swarm That Runs Overnight](https://mdostal.com/blog/35-agent-ai-coding-swarm): I built a 35-agent AI coding swarm that processes 20-40 tickets overnight, turning them into PRs by morning. It runs on 
- [Right-Sizing Your DevOps Stack](https://mdostal.com/blog/right-sizing-your-devops-stack): Most DevOps problems aren't about tools, they're about people. Stop over-engineering and start shipping with a right-siz
- [What Does a CTO Actually Do?](https://mdostal.com/blog/what-does-a-cto-actually-do): Hint: it's not picking databases. The CTO role is about translating between two worlds that don't speak the same languag
- [The Week I Stopped Coding: Orchestrating an Army of AI Agents](https://mdostal.com/blog/the-week-i-stopped-coding): I've stopped coding, but not building. Orchestrating an army of AI agents now, I see how it echoes enterprise digital tr

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