About Develomentor — Fractional C-Suite Consulting Led by Grant Ingersoll
Founded by Grant Ingersoll — former CTO of Wikimedia Foundation, co-founder/CTO of Lucidworks, author of best-selling Taming Text, and Apache Lucene, Solr, and OpenSearch committer — Develomentor places senior technology, product, and data leaders inside the companies that need them.
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Senior practitioners. Embedded delivery.
Grant and the Develomentor team have led engineering organizations through the moments that decide a company's trajectory — from founding and scaling a VC-backed startup's engineering org to running the 150+ person tech team behind one of the ten most-visited sites on Earth, to committing to Apache Lucene and Solr long before search-relevance and retrieval became board-level conversations.
We bring that bench to founders, operators, and investors as fractional CTOs, CPOs, and CDOs — accountable for outcomes, not slide decks. Engagements are staffed with senior practitioners we have shipped alongside for years.
Meet Grant Meet the teamThe Develomentor Difference
Operator credentials, open-source roots, and a published voice on search and AI — the team you would hire full-time, available fractionally.
Former CTO, Wikimedia Foundation — 18 teams, 150+ engineers, 1.7B monthly pageviews
Co-founder and CTO, Lucidworks — Apache Lucene/Solr committer, author of Taming Text
How the Team Shows Up
Three capabilities you can put to work inside your organization within days.
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Embedded fractional leadership — a CTO, CPO, or CDO inside your team, accountable to outcomes and your board.
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Technical due diligence and team assessments — written deliverable, expert readout, ready to share with investors.
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Search, retrieval, and AI strategy — from agentic search architectures to enterprise search to eCommerce relevance, drawn directly from 20+ years in the search industry.
Tell Us Where You Are
Share the situation — a stalled engineering org, a vibe-coded MVP heading to production, a diligence deadline — and we will come back with a proposed next step within one business day.
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