Technology
in service of community, creativity, and growth.
Strategic leadership with hands-on experience.
As a full-time CTO, a fractional CTO, and through my consulting agency, I've taken many startups from idea to execution. From big-picture oversight to getting that first MVP off the ground, I can get you there.
- Business Strategy → Product Roadmap We'll look at your goals and constraints and turn them into concrete decisions about architecture, sequencing, and what to build, buy, or defer.
- Team Building and Leadership Hiring the right people is tough. I can help you assemble the team, lead it through the early days, and mentor and grow it until it runs itself.
- Risk and Information Security Startups carry risk but it's important to be aware of all of them even if those risks are ultimately accepted. Let me help make sound early architecture calls that will surface and plan for early risks, and help you own security, compliance, data, and scalability concerns early.
- A Credible Technical Voice If you need someone to field investor questions during due diligence, help evaluating vendors and partners, or someone to speak on behalf of the engineering team at board meetings, I can be that voice.
Trusted guidance for the leaders you already have.
A little bit of advice can go a long way. If you already have an established in-house team or you're not quite ready to build one, it still helps to have someone experienced on call.
- A sounding board for your CTO I've been engineering hire #1 for more than one business, and every time, I wanted someone to talk shop with. I can be a senior advisor to your CTO, giving them a place to think out loud and test half-formed ideas. I'll provide a safe, judgment-free space to pressure-test decisions before they go to the full team.
- Leadership and people coaching I started writing code when I was seven, and I've picked up a lot of hard-won knowledge over those years, but one of the things I'm most proud of is my ability to lead with empathy and to truly get to know and trust the people on my teams. I can help bring that to yours.
- Filling knowledge gaps I can fill in where your CTO has less experience, like due diligence prep or vendor and architecture evaluations, without ego or any attempt to take over.
Experience and the right tools, combined properly, lead to the most successful of events and teams.
I spent eight years on the board of Century Racing Club Association (as both Membership Director and President), the country's oldest and largest bike racing club. I've run or sponsored multiple teams and worked on the operations side of many events. I also conceived and operated a bespoke, highly optimized timing and scoring platform for a premier international cycling event, the Red Hook Crit, which took place in Brooklyn, Barcelona, and Milan. I focused heavily on racial and gender equity in sport during those times, most recently culminating in the creation of Be Cyclocross, a racing team focused on bringing folks of color into bike racing.
“The team is called 'Be' because I wanted to show that we can exist in this space, and by existing in this space we can get more people who look like us to come and do this sport.”This Race Director Wants More Black and Brown Athletes in Cyclocross, Bicycling Magazine, 2021
“The company, which launched in 2007, designed a mobile app for the Red Hook Crit and quickly helped grow the event from an underground race to an international phenomenon.”
How dev shop hatchmap is connecting fans with cycling’s hottest race, technical.ly, 2015“Randy Locklair has a unique perspective that has led him to grow a successful tech company from the ground up right along side growing his family, and growing his local cycling community. But his most important impacts on the world may still be on their way. Full stop: If the industry follows Randy's lead, we might be in a pretty good place in a few years.”
The Gravel Lot Podcast
Work in service of the growth of community.
I put a lot of my free time into community advocacy. Street safety, progressive politics, and gender and racial equity in sports are all causes near to my heart.
Alongside paid clients, I take on a small number of discounted engagements for community organizations, mutual aid groups, and nonprofits whose missions align with my own values.
If you're reaching out about an advocacy project, tell me about the organization, the community you serve, and what you're hoping to build or change. Mention that it's a community engagement so I can scope and price it accordingly. My goal is to put good tools and strategy in the hands of the people doing the work.
