# Abou Koné

> Abou Koné is an Ivorian American CTO, fractional CTO, and player-coach engineering leader. He helps African startups and growing technology companies build, grow, and scale technical teams.

## Fractional CTO services

- [Fractional CTO for African startups](https://abou-kone.com/fractional-cto/): Bilingual English and French engineering leadership for African startups at an inflection point.
- Areas of support: technical strategy, architecture, product direction, hiring, team design, delivery systems, AI adoption, vendor handovers, and distributed engineering leadership.
- Engagements: discovery sprint, ongoing advisory, guidance, and embedded leadership. Pricing is discussed after an initial conversation.
- [French fractional CTO page](https://abou-kone.com/fr/fractional-cto/)

## Background

- Current role: CTO at Pacify, a virtual care platform.
- International experience: Pacify, Clockwise, ShopRunner, and IDDataWeb.
- Relevant experience: 0-to-1 AI product development, player-coach leadership, vendor-built platform handovers, technical hiring, engineering performance management, CI/CD, observability, and distributed teams.
- Francophone West Africa: advised Orange Sénégal on architecture for a home-phone management ERP, led architecture and engineering at AKIL Technologies in Abidjan, founded Code d’Ivoire, and co-hosts TecPatri, a Francophone technology podcast.
- Languages: English and French.
- Geographic context: Ivorian American, based in Maryland, with regular work cycles in Abidjan and Dakar.

## Primary sources

- [Home](https://abou-kone.com/)
- [About](https://abou-kone.com/about/)
- [Work](https://abou-kone.com/work/)
- [Writing](https://abou-kone.com/writing/)
- [Contact](https://abou-kone.com/contact/)

## Identity and external profiles

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adkone)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/devakone)
- [TecPatri](https://www.tecpatri.com)
- [100Kode](https://100kode.io)