David vs. Goliath
I took on Facebook — and won! No BS.
Let me fight yours.
Hi, I am Basant Gajjar. Your War-Time CTO, and Advisor — Resourceful. Relentless. Battle-Tested.
I help the daring, SaaS founders and growth-stage companies scale from 10K to 10M+ users with resourceful, battle-tested technical leadership, AI automation, and growth systems without the full-time executive overhead—driven by grit, not guesswork.
Battle-Tested Scale
Architected systems handling 100M+ queries/day
No theory — only proven execution under pressure.
Security-Forged Reliability
Zero downtime. Zero fraud. Zero excuses.
Built on discipline, automation, and defense-grade control.
AI-Driven Growth
Automation that amplifies, not replaces.
From chatbots to sales ops — machines that scale with you.
Relentless Grit
20+ years. 10+ ventures. One philosophy: never quit.
Took on Facebook — and still shipping.
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The Startup Battlefield: Where Only the Relentless and the Daring Survive
Running a startup isn't a boardroom exercise — it's a battlefield. I've taken on Goliaths — literally — and won. When Facebook came after my company, I learned what real grit and resourcefulness mean. Since then, I've made it my mission to help founders like you fight smarter, scale faster, and never get crushed by giants again. I don't play safe. I build systems and teams that can survive pressure, thrive in chaos, and punch way above their weight.
Every outage, every missed deadline, every failed launch is another bullet flying your way. You don't win that kind of war with timid leadership or pretty decks. You win it with strategy, grit, and ruthless execution. I've been in the trenches — scaled systems to millions of hits, and built the kind of tech resilience that keeps companies alive when everything's on fire.
I don't just stabilize your systems — I help you plan your next five strategic moves: how to scale, secure, automate, grow, and dominate.
This isn't about handholding. This is about winning.
Who This Is For
SaaS Founders & Startups
"I need someone who can build our MVP and scale it to millions"
- •Architecture decisions keeping you up at night
- •Need technical credibility for investors
- •Struggling to hire senior engineers
Growth-Stage Companies
"Our tech debt is killing our velocity"
- •Systems breaking under growth
- •Team needs senior mentorship
- •Security & compliance becoming critical
Private Equity & Investors
"We need technical due diligence we can trust"
- •Evaluating acquisition targets
- •Portfolio companies need technical leadership
- •Post-merger integration challenges
The Relentless Difference
Most CTOs Pick One Lane. I Deliver All Three.
| Technical Depth | Growth Expertise | Founder Mindset |
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Result: A CTO who doesn't just talk strategy—I ship products, fix critical bugs at 2am, and understand that every technical decision is a business decision.
What I Do
With 20+ years of scaling tech ventures and driving millions in revenue across the U.S., Asia, and beyond, I empower startups and companies with strategy, development, AI automation, and marketing expertise. From facing down Facebook in a 2020 lawsuit to building SaaS for millions, I deliver results with grit and innovation.
Strategic Leadership
Aligning technology and business strategy for investor readiness and product-market fit.
Architecture & Scalability
Designing systems that scale from MVPs to millions of users.
AI & Automation
Streamlining workflows, content, and operations with cutting-edge AI.
Team Empowerment
Hiring, mentoring, and guiding high-performance teams.
Growth Systems
Funnels, PPC campaigns, and analytics-driven marketing that deliver ROI.
Crisis Problem-Solving
Fixing mission-critical bugs, recovering systems, and hitting impossible deadlines.
Why RelentlessCTO?
| RelentlessCTO | The Usual Route |
|---|---|
Battle-Tested in Real-World High-Scale SaaS | Often lack firsthand experience with scaling SaaS from 0 to millions of users. |
Founder-Minded Approach to Growth & Scalability | Focuses only on tasks; lacks founder-style ownership or strategic vision. |
Security-First Infrastructure Expertise (HAProxy, Anti-Fraud, IP Intelligence) | Limited knowledge in advanced security stack or geo/IP-based abuse detection. |
Proven Track Record in Growth, Marketing, and Ops | Narrowly focused on tech execution, not business alignment or GTM strategies. |
No-Nonsense Execution with Deep Technical Fluency | Requires heavy onboarding; often high-level but detached from hands-on execution. |
Built 10+ Profitable Tech Ventures – SaaS, Proxies, Ecom, Agencies | Theoretical strategy, rarely tested across multiple real-world industries. |
Flexible Fractional Model – No Long-Term Overhead | Full-time hires are expensive, rigid, and slow to onboard. |
Deep Stack Expertise (PHP, MySQL, Bash, LEMP, APIs, Cloudflare, etc.) | Shallow or generic familiarity with full-stack architecture or performance tuning. |
Cross-Disciplinary (Tech + Legal + Ops + Marketing) | Rarely combines multiple departments into one strategic advisory role. |
Confidential, Discreet & Results-Driven | Consultants may not deeply understand stealth-mode or sensitive venture dynamics. |
Can You Afford to Waste Growth?
Every click, every visitor, every lead matters. Most teams pay for traffic but lose it to slow infrastructure, leaky funnels, or weak automation.
RelentlessCTO fixes the leaks and compounds the wins. Here's how I take control of your customer journey to supercharge growth.
Diagnose
5-Day Technical & Growth Audit
Find revenue leaks and technical risk fast.
- •Infra, app, data, and funnel audit
- •Latency, reliability, and security checks
- •Prioritized roadmap with quick wins
Architect
Scale-Ready Systems
Design for scale, speed, and uptime.
- •Cloud topology, HA, and caching layers
- •Database & queue design for burst traffic
- •Cost controls without sacrificing performance
Secure
Security-by-Design
Prevent fraud, breaches, and downtime.
- •IP intelligence, WAF rules, bot/abuse filtering
- •Secrets management, least-privilege access
- •Compliance patterns (GDPR/CCPA-friendly)
Automate
AI Workflows
Ship more with less headcount.
- •AI chatbots & voice agents (24/7)
- •CRM, billing, and ops automation
- •Content/SEO pipelines with review gates
Convert
CRO & Funnel Engineering
Turn visits into revenue.
- •Offer architecture & landing page frameworks
- •Tracking, attribution, and A/B testing
- •Email/SMS nurture, retargeting, and LTV lifts
Accelerate
Performance Engineering
Cut latency, boost Core Web Vitals.
- •CDN & edge caching strategy
- •Profiling & hot-path optimization
- •Async jobs, queues, and rate limiting
Operate
SRE & Reliability
Uptime as a discipline.
- •Observability (logs, metrics, traces)
- •Error budgets & incident playbooks
- •Blue/green & canary deployments
Prove
Analytics & KPIs
Decisions powered by truth.
- •Source-of-truth dashboards
- •Cohort, CAC/LTV, and funnel analytics
- •Experiment design & success criteria
Team
Hire, Mentor, Scale
Build a team that ships.
- •Hiring scorecards & take-home design
- •Code reviews & SDLC guardrails
- •Vendor selection & management
Ship
Rapid Delivery
Own the roadmap and deliver outcomes.
- •Weekly demos & ruthless prioritization
- •Definition of done tied to KPIs
- •Rollback plans & "fix-forward" protocols
Proven Wins Across Industries
SaaS & Security
Built LeadCloak, a fraud-prevention SaaS that processed over 100M+ queries/day and stood up in litigation against Facebook eventually settling and winning the case.
File Sharing & Infrastructure
Scaled SlingFile to 1M+ daily users with 99.9% uptime through colocation, advanced caching, complex networking, and infrastructure optimization.
Payroll & Document Automation
Grew a financial product into a leading generator for paystubs, W2s, and 1099s. Delivered a credit-based system, seamless user management via aMember, and high customer retention in a competitive market.
Translation & Compliance
Helped grow a translation company from scratch by assembling the team, creating SOPs, automating certified translation workflows, cutting cost-per-lead by 23% while meeting strict USCIS requirements.
E-commerce & Consumer Products
Grew a fragrance and eyewear portfolio from niche stores into scalable revenue engines; scaled one e-commerce brand from $200K → $3M in under 2 years.
VPN & Review Sites
Launched a VPN review website, building affiliate partnerships and optimized funnels in a competitive, compliance-heavy niche.
Digital Agencies & Growth
Led campaigns that drove 250K+ qualified leads in 60 days for a Fortune 500 health company through PPC and affiliate growth.
Private Equity & M&A
Conducted technical due diligence and growth assessments for acquisitions, identifying hidden risks and post-merger integration strategies.
AdTech & Performance Marketing
Engineered traffic filtering and funnel systems for regulated industries, helping brands run campaigns in high-risk verticals without downtime.
AI & Automation
Delivered AI chatbots, voice agents, and sales automation for B2B outreach, significantly increasing client appointment-setting efficiency and lead conversions.
Proven Track Record
Real metrics from real products. I've built and scaled SaaS platforms that generated six-figure monthly revenues and served millions of users.
Six-Figure Monthly Revenue (AdSense)
Google AdSense earnings demonstrating consistent six-figure monthly revenue generation through optimized ad placement and traffic monetization strategies.
Modern SaaS Revenue (Stripe)
Stripe payment dashboard showing $916K in successful payments over 12 months, with $926K gross volume and +245% growth. Recent activity shows $2.1K daily gross volume.
High-Traffic SaaS Platform (2012)
Real-time analytics showing 8,888 active users simultaneously on platform, demonstrating robust infrastructure and massive user engagement.
Scaled SaaS Success (2021)
Google Analytics dashboard showing 16M users, 32M sessions, and 46,491 active users in real-time. Clear demonstration of product-market fit and sustained growth.
Infrastructure Scale - Peak Traffic
MRTG network traffic analysis showing peak bandwidth of 123 MB/s with sustained high-volume data transfer. Infrastructure capable of handling massive concurrent loads.
Long-Term Infrastructure Performance
Yearly network traffic patterns showing consistent high-volume data transfer with average bandwidth of 4.36 GB/s, demonstrating reliable, scalable infrastructure over time.
These aren't hypothetical projections—these are real results from products I've built and scaled.
Let's Build Your Success StoryCTO-Led Transformation: Before / After
Every organization faces growing pains—technical debt, fragile infrastructure, slow delivery cycles, or rising cloud costs. A CTO's role is to turn complexity into clarity, and bottlenecks into accelerators.
| Domain | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Monolith entanglement, unclear domains, inconsistent standards, no ADRs | Reference architecture, clear domain modules, "paved road" tooling, documented ADRs, API-first design |
| Reliability & Operations (SRE) | No SLOs/error budgets, noisy alerts, manual failovers, undefined RTO/RPO, untested DR | SLOs & error budgets per service, actionable alerts, blue-green/canary deploys, tested DR playbooks with defined RTO/RPO |
| Delivery & Quality | Manual releases, long lead times, flaky tests, release anxiety | CI/CD, trunk-based development, test pyramid & contract tests, feature flags, progressive delivery |
| Security & Compliance | Ad-hoc IAM, secrets in code, limited audit trails, reactive vuln mgmt | SSO/RBAC, least-privilege IAM, managed secrets, audit logging, routine patching & scanning, compliance-ready patterns |
| Data & Analytics | Siloed data, CSV handoffs, no lineage/governance, unclear PII handling | Central warehouse/lakehouse, governed pipelines (dbt/ETL), lineage & quality checks, encryption & anonymization for PII |
| Performance & Scale | Unpredictable latency, synchronous hot paths, no capacity planning | Performance budgets, caching strategy (edge/app/db), queues & rate-limiting, autoscaling & capacity plans |
| Cost & Vendor Mgmt (FinOps) | Runaway cloud spend, zombie resources, opaque unit economics | Budgets/alerts, rightsizing, reservations/spot, per-unit cost models, vendor consolidation & SLA governance |
| People & Process | Unclear ownership, slow onboarding, no eng health metrics, ignored tech debt | RACI ownership, 2-day onboarding playbooks, DORA metrics (lead time, deploy freq, change fail %, MTTR), structured tech-debt program |
| My Broader Experience (Beyond CTO) | Traditional CTOs stop at technology delivery | I combine CTO depth with growth strategy, M&A advisory, private equity exposure, adtech, e-commerce, SaaS, AI automation, compliance-heavy SaaS, proxies & infra, and agency-scale growth ops. |
Indicators We Track: uptime SLO attainment, DORA metrics, MTTR, RPO/RTO readiness, cloud cost per transaction/tenant, onboarding time-to-productivity, vuln remediation SLAs.
Your Transformation Journey
Every successful company goes through this journey. The question is:
how fast can you get there and how much pain will you endure along the way?
Firefighting Mode
Constant outages, technical debt, reactive problem-solving
- ⚠️Systems breaking under load
- ⚠️Manual deployments and rollbacks
- ⚠️No monitoring or alerting
- ⚠️Team burnout from crisis management
Stabilization Phase
Building foundations for reliability and growth
- 🔧Implement monitoring and SLOs
- 🔧Automate deployments and testing
- 🔧Establish incident response procedures
- 🔧Create technical debt roadmap
Growth & Scale
Optimized systems that enable business acceleration
- ✅99.999% uptime and reliability
- ✅Automated scaling and cost optimization
- ✅Fast feature delivery cycles
- ✅Team focused on innovation, not firefighting
Product-Market Fit
The critical milestone where technology excellence meets market demand, enabling exponential growth and long-term success.
The Journey in Practice
Stabilize
Stop the bleeding, address critical issues, and establish operational baseline
Optimize
Build robust systems, implement best practices, and create scalable foundations
Scale
Achieve product-market fit, accelerate growth, and maintain reliability at scale
Stability
Reliable systems you can trust
Growth
Scalable infrastructure
Team
Empowered developers
Ready to Accelerate Your Journey?
Don't spend years in firefighting mode. Let's fast-track your transformation to scalable growth and reliability.
Start Your TransformationTailored Processes for Different Audiences
For Startups / Early-Stage Founders
From Idea to Investor-Ready in 4 Phases
Validate (Week 1–2)
- •MVP and tech stack assessment
- •Identify blockers to demo/launch
- •Align roadmap with fundraising milestones
Stabilize (Month 1)
- •Patch critical issues and tech debt
- •Implement monitoring and basic SLOs
- •Ensure compliance with investor and customer expectations
Scale Lite (Months 2–3)
- •Modularize architecture for quick pivots
- •Automate testing and releases
- •Introduce lightweight team processes
Fund & Grow (Ongoing)
- •Support fundraising with technical due diligence docs
- •Build hiring playbooks and team scaling plans
- •Continuous iteration on product-market fit
Are We a Good Fit?
I'm not the right CTO for everyone — and that's intentional. My focus is on working with teams and organizations that want to move fast, build resilient systems, and grow responsibly.
| ✔️ Good Fit | ❌ Not a Fit |
|---|---|
Founders or operators ready to scale MVPs into reliable products | Teams seeking only a full-time, in-house CTO |
Growth-stage companies facing outages, cost overruns, or slow delivery | Organizations needing a short-term contractor for one-off coding tasks |
Investors or PE firms needing due diligence & post-deal integration expertise | Teams unwilling to treat technology as a driver of business growth |
Teams that want a hands-on CTO who can code, architect, and mentor | Companies seeking quick hacks without long-term scalability in mind |
Organizations that value security, compliance, and uptime alongside growth | Businesses not ready to invest in building resilient systems |
Teams needing growth hacking strategies to optimize funnels, lead-gen, and marketing ROI | Businesses expecting only traditional IT management with no growth focus |
Companies that require legal-savvy CTO support (compliance, contracts, regulatory awareness) | Teams that ignore legal and compliance considerations in technology decisions |
Technology Expertise
CTO who still codes. My anchor is LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP/Python), where I've built systems handling billions of queries/day. But my role extends beyond one stack — I lead cross-stack teams (ASP.NET, Node.js, Go, Ruby) and align technology with scale, security, and growth goals.
This allows me to be hands-on where necessary, while architecting systems and mentoring teams regardless of stack.
Technology Expertise Areas
Core Engineering Anchor (LEMP)
Deep experience in LEMP for high-scale systems.
- •Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP/Python
- •Performance tuning, caching, hot-path optimization
Cross-Stack Leadership
Guide teams in multiple stacks and frameworks.
- •ASP.NET, Node.js, Go, Ruby
- •Hiring, mentoring, code quality standards
Cloud & Platform
Design and operate resilient cloud infrastructure.
- •AWS, Kubernetes/ECS, HAProxy, Cloudflare
- •Multi-AZ architecture, autoscaling, IaC
Delivery & Reliability (SRE/DevEx)
Ship faster while keeping systems reliable.
- •CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, trunk-based dev
- •SLOs, blue-green/canary deployments, observability
Security & Compliance
Security-first mindset baked into architecture.
- •SSO/RBAC, secrets management, Zero-Trust
- •WAF, bot defense, compliance-ready systems
Data & Analytics
Unlock insights through modern data platforms.
- •SQL & NoSQL (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Elastic)
- •Spark, dbt, Snowflake, Delta pipelines
- •Governance, lineage, and encryption
AI & Automation
Boost efficiency with AI-driven workflows.
- •Chatbots, voice agents, LLM integrations
- •Automated support, sales, and ops processes
FinOps & Cost Governance
Keep cloud spend efficient and predictable.
- •Budgeting, rightsizing, alerts
- •Unit economics dashboards, vendor SLAs
Want to See How I Compare?
RelentlessCTO offers value that extends far beyond typical consulting engagements.
| Feature | RelentlessCTO | Others |
|---|---|---|
| In-depth technical, customer & competitor research | Yes | Sometimes |
| Specializes in SaaS, AI, proxies, and scaling businesses across industries | Yes | Limited scope |
| Security-first design with proven anti-fraud and uptime expertise | Yes | Rarely |
| Money-back confidence on fractional engagements | Yes | Rarely |
| Hands-on code, infra, and growth execution (not just advice) | Yes | Often detached from execution |
| End-to-end integration (architecture → AI automation → growth) | Yes | Partial handover |
| Ongoing mentorship, vendor management & lifetime support | Yes | Sometimes |
| Unlimited iterations until it performs (in code, infra, or growth campaigns) | Yes | Sometimes |
Growth Impact
RelentlessCTO helps teams increase their:
About Me
The Person Behind Relentless CTO
I'm a technologist who codes, a founder who's been in the trenches, and a growth strategist who's spent millions on ads profitably.
Foundation & Experience
- Academic Foundation: BS & MS in Computer Science
- Real-World Experience: 20+ years building and scaling tech companies
- Unique Background: From defending against Facebook in court to scaling SaaS to millions of users
What Makes Me Different
- • I've built companies, not just consulted for them
- • I write code, not just review it
- • I understand P&L, not just technical specs
- • I've failed, learned, and succeeded repeatedly
Current Focus:
Helping ambitious founders and growth-stage companies achieve technical excellence while driving business growth. Particularly passionate about AI automation, scalable architecture, and turning technical capabilities into competitive advantages.
Why Choose Relentless CTO?
Clear Advantages Over Alternatives
| Feature | Relentless CTO | Traditional Consultants | Full-Time CTO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hands-on execution + strategy | Yes | Advice without implementation | Expensive overhead ($400K+/year) |
| Available within days | Yes | Long engagements | 3-6 month hiring process |
| Proven across 10+ industries | Yes | Limited experience | Single company focus |
| Technical + Growth expertise | Yes | Tech-only focus | May lack growth skills |
| Flexible engagement | Yes | Rigid contracts | Fixed full-time cost |
| Global network & resources | Yes | Solo operator | Limited to internal resources |
Engagement Options
Choose Your Level of Support
Advisory
5-10 hrs/month
Strategic guidance, Architecture reviews, Team mentorship
Fractional
2-3 days/week
Hands-on execution, Team leadership, Direct implementation
Intensive
Full-time burst
Crisis response, Launch support, Rapid scaling