About Illicus: senior-only fractional CTO and CISO operators
Fractional CTO and CISO leadership, infrastructure audits and hands-on delivery for Series A to growth-stage B2B SaaS teams, since 2013. Every practitioner has 10+ years of hands-on experience.
No prep required. Plan within 48 hours.
Fractional roles and fixed-scope services
Who we work best with
Teams up against a deadline, an audit, a security risk or slow delivery.
Great fit
- Series A to growth-stage B2B SaaS, FinTech, HealthTech and DevTools companies, typically 20–500 employees
- Engineering teams that need senior leadership without a full-time executive hire
- Teams preparing for SOC 2 or ISO 27001, or modernizing delivery and infrastructure
Not ideal
- Staff augmentation without clear outcomes or ownership
- Process theater instead of measurable delivery
- Work we can't do alongside your existing team and tools
Our story
Illicus was founded in 2013 so growing technology companies could get senior engineering and security leadership without a large consultancy's overhead or a full-time executive's cost.
We are practitioners, each with 10+ years of hands-on experience building, operating and securing production systems.
Today we work with Series A to growth-stage B2B SaaS, FinTech and HealthTech companies that have outgrown their first architecture, face their first SOC 2 audit or need a cloud migration that does not disrupt the business.
Illicus leadership team
Senior practitioners with 10+ years of hands-on experience each.
Areas of expertise
- Cloud architecture
- Security and compliance
- DevOps
- Engineering leadership
- SOC 2 / ISO 27001
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
Credentials
- AWS Solutions Architect
- CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- PMP, Project Management Professional
How we work
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Senior-only delivery
A senior practitioner leads every engagement. No junior consultants.
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Outcomes over hours
Fixed scope, clear deliverables and success criteria, not billable time.
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Pragmatic solutions
Every recommendation fits your team, timeline and budget.
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Knowledge transfer
Documentation and training in every engagement, so you keep the capability.
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Security by default
Least-privilege access through your SSO/IAM: named individuals, time-limited, every action in your audit logs.
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Low-noise communication
Clear, concise updates. No meetings for their own sake.
Our principles
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We only take on work we can deliver well.
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We raise problems early, especially the hard ones.
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We document decisions with context, so your future team knows why.
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We build for long-term maintainability, not just the handover.
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We say when we don't know, and bring in the right expertise.
Track record since 2013
- 10+ Years in business
- 50+ Engagements delivered
- $2B+ Client valuations
- 100% Senior practitioners