Mathew FanningMustang, OK

Founding CTO & software engineering lead

13 years shipping modern-stack software, building the teams that own it, and migrating legacy systems without stopping delivery.

About

Mathew Fanning, Founding CTO & software engineering lead

Before I ever wrote a line of JavaScript, I was leading teams in retail banking. When I transitioned into engineering in 2013, leadership quickly became part of my work again. I later joined FieldVision—a lean startup with a modern technology stack—intentionally taking a hands-on role to better understand what I wanted from the next stage of my career.

What I discovered is that I don’t want to choose between leading people and building products. I’ve led a twelve-person department reporting directly to a CTO, and I’ve served as the sole engineer behind a product with paying customers. I understand the demands, tradeoffs, and responsibilities that come with both.

I build teams that ship, establish the standards they ship by, and stay close enough to the code to earn the trust of the engineers I lead. If that’s the kind of leadership you’re looking for, I’d like to talk.

More about how I lead

Experience

  1. Sep 2025–presentFounding CTOOkie Music Collective · fractional
  2. Dec 2023–Mar 2026Lead ConsultantSparq · consulting
  3. 2021–Dec 2023Lead Frontend EngineerNIPR · contract
  4. 2018–2021Lead Frontend EngineerFieldVision
  5. 2016–2018VP of Web DevelopmentWeather Decision Technologies
  6. 2013–2016JavaScript EngineerWeather Decision Technologies

On the side

  • The Switch operator console: a school's season of ten monthly drops, each with three shirt designs linked to Printful products.
    The SwitchIn development

    A monthly t-shirt subscription for schools, with a full non-apparel store alongside it.

    Recurring billing, inventory and fulfilment, sold through schools rather than direct to the people wearing the shirts.

Worth a conversation.

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Prefer email? mathewfanning1@gmail.com

13 years of building and leading

  • Frontend architecture
  • Hiring
  • Training
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • CI/CD
  • Founding engineering
  • Product
  • Platform
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • Team leadership
  • Quarterly reviews
  • Roadmap
  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Node
  • AWS
  • Video tooling
  • Release engineering
  • Legacy migration