Senior technology leadership, a few days a week.
The executive in the room is also the engineer who built the platform.
Code Line is the independent studio of Matheau Dakoske. For more than twenty-five years it has built software that ships and lasts. Today it offers that experience to a small number of companies as fractional engagements.
Services
Fractional CTO
Own the technology function for founders who need executive judgment without a full-time hire.
Head of Engineering
Run the engineering function day-to-day: delivery, hiring decisions, and operational rigor.
Principal Architect
Solve one hard problem: modernization, compliance migration, or M&A technical diligence.
Why Code Line
Software that outlives its moment.
Apple once approached Code Line to bundle Art Directors Toolkit with every PowerMac and PowerBook/MacBook Pro it sold. The app stayed there for seven years, shipping under a direct Pantone licensing deal held by almost no other independent developer. Art Files, the studio's collect-for-output tool for Adobe Illustrator, ran in production at Starbucks, Mattel, CVS, and L'Oréal. The same standard applies to everything the studio builds now: platforms that run real businesses, through acquisitions, audits, and growth. And the work does not stop at the code. Matheau runs the meetings where decisions get made: investor presentations, stakeholder meetings, and partner negotiations. That has meant audiences of seventy-five to a hundred real estate brokers, and licensing deals negotiated directly with Apple and Pantone.
Built to run a business
A real estate syndication platform designed and built from scratch, serving hundreds of accredited investors across a substantial property pipeline.
Built to survive scrutiny
A zero-downtime PCI compliance migration across a nine-figure commerce operation, with no customer-facing impact.
Built to be handed off
A platform integration architecture delivered through a ~12-person cross-functional team, launched successfully after handoff.
Engagements
A small number of clients, taken seriously.
Engagements run 10 to 20 hours per week, remote, on retainer or fixed scope. The studio takes on a few clients at a time so each gets senior attention throughout.