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Technology Leadership
Senior technology leadership that connects business priorities with technology execution.
- Technology strategy
- Engineering leadership
- Operating models
- Governance
- Board advisory
Canarya Consulting · Stockholm
Technology leadership for what comes next.
Canarya is a boutique technology advisory and consulting company helping organizations navigate transformation, AI adoption, engineering, security and risk.
Business
Technology
Engineering
AI
Security
Risk
Leadership
Expertise
Canarya supports organizations across leadership, execution and risk.
Assignments span senior leadership, transformation, AI adoption, architecture, engineering, security, technology risk and technical advisory.
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Transformation & Architecture
Pragmatic modernization of platforms, architecture and engineering practices without transformation theatre.
- Platform modernization
- Cloud strategy
- Architecture
- Engineering practices
- Technology operating models
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AI Strategy & Adoption
Support for leadership teams moving AI from experimentation into useful business and engineering capability.
- AI opportunity assessment
- Build vs. buy decisions
- AI-enabled products
- Developer productivity
- AI governance
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Security, Risk & Resilience
Security and risk as part of modern technology leadership, especially in regulated environments.
- Cybersecurity strategy
- DORA
- EBA guidelines
- Operational resilience
- Third-party risk
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Advisory & Due Diligence
Independent technology judgment for investors, boards and leadership teams facing important decisions.
- Technical due diligence
- Technology assessments
- AI readiness
- Vendor assessment
- Transformation planning
AI Strategy
AI changes the technology equation.
AI is increasingly a technology leadership question, not an isolated innovation project. It affects product direction, engineering practices, architecture, data, security, operating models and risk.
Canarya helps leadership teams decide where AI can create real value, which use cases deserve investment, what should be built or bought, and how adoption should be governed as experiments move toward production.
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Company Positioning
A boutique advisory firm for serious technology situations.
Canarya is built for moments when technology decisions carry strategic, operational or regulatory weight. The work is practical: create direction, make tradeoffs visible, and help leadership teams move from analysis to execution.
- Founder-led by a senior technology executive with long-term CTO experience
- Experience in regulated technology environments
- Technology strategy, architecture and infrastructure
- Engineering organizations and operating models
- Cybersecurity, technology risk and operational resilience
- Vendor, platform and strategic partner management
- Executive management collaboration and board-level communication
Founder
Founder-led technology advisory.
Canarya Consulting was founded by Furkan Ayata, an experienced technology executive with many years of CTO leadership in fintech and regulated financial services.
His experience spans technology leadership, engineering, transformation, architecture, AI adoption, cybersecurity, technology risk, operational resilience and executive-level technology matters.
Furkan Ayata
Founder, Canarya ConsultingTechnology Executive & CTO AdvisorWhen Canarya Can Help
When senior technology leadership is needed.
Between permanent CTOs
Preparing a major technology transformation
Modernizing a legacy platform
Scaling an engineering organization
Evaluating AI strategy and adoption
Introducing AI into engineering or operations
Facing regulatory or security transformation
Preparing for investment, acquisition or due diligence
Trying to connect technology strategy with business priorities
Engagement Model
Flexible assignments without artificial packages.
- Interim leadership
- Fractional leadership
- Executive advisory
- Transformation assignments
- Technology assessments
- Technical due diligence
Contact
Let's talk.
Need senior technology leadership, transformation support or strategic advisory? Get in touch with Canarya.