Stephanie Spanjian

Stephanie Spanjian is a fractional CTO and engineering leader with more than 25 years of experience designing scalable systems and delivering high-performance digital products. She works with startups and enterprises, combining strategic technical leadership with hands-on engineering to modernize systems, scale teams, and align technology decisions with business goals.

Her services include fractional CTO leadership, system architecture, full-stack development, team mentoring, DevOps and CI/CD, and technical advisory. She builds with technologies including Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and AWS, and specializes in AI systems, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and large language model integration. Her work also covers cloud infrastructure, performance and cost optimization, and AI feasibility and risk assessment.

Stephanie highlights measurable results, including revenue lifts for Fabletics and TechStyle and a 99.7% reduction in AI costs through RAG optimization. She also founded LA HOT Magazine, a multimedia venture with print and digital editions and a mobile app. Her approach emphasizes innovation, collaboration, adaptability, transparency, and empathy.