Serving startups in the SF Bay Area that need one more seasoned technologist on their team, without creating another full-time position
Offering fractional CIO and CTO services, including:
- Setting up a technology infrastructure properly
- Crafting a sensible information security strategy
- Building a cloud strategy for resilient and/or high performance computing, especially in biotechnology use cases
- Providing access to a trusted network of service providers for all IT needs
We can help you get your startup off the ground
- Planning technology infrastructure for a new facility
- Choosing a collaboration environment that matches your startup culture
- Authoring foundational policies, training and compliance
We provide technology guidance supporting the development, marketing and sale of your products
- Building cloud infrastructure for compute intensive products (e.g. next generation sequencing pipelines)
- Designing customer facing portal
- Encouraging devops culture for software teams
- Identifying opportunities for automation in various forms
We are a source of high-quality referrals
- Connections to trusted network of experts and vendors
- Trusted relationships with managed service providers for day-to-day IT needs
- Building an internal IT team when the time is right
We will draw your attention towards information security
- Woven into all of our service offerings
Clients include:
- Illumina Ventures
- Encoded Therapeutics
- Lyell Immunopharma
- SerImmune Biomedical
- Counsyl
- Myriad Genetics
- Convergent Genomics
- Rebus Biosystems
- ...and others
Omer Ayfer, Principal
A technologist with exceptional dynamic range, comfortable with both strategic and hands-on work. Currently focused on cloud computing, information security and the needs of ambitious technology startups. Positions held include a series of IT leadership roles at numerous biotechnology companies in addition to advisory roles at early stage startups. An industry thought-leader, with regular teaching engagements on topics such as blockchain and cryptography as a guest lecturer at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and as an Adjunct Professor at the Cybersecurity Program at Merritt College.
Learn more at LinkedIn.
contact@ayfer.network