Yusuf Qamri, Founder
I founded OptiZap after seeing the same pattern in growing companies: a gap in senior technical leadership. Critical technology decisions were often handed to a single vendor or an overworked systems administrator who lacked the authority and the breadth of skills and experience to design secure, scalable systems.
As organizations scale, the IT operating model frequently lags behind. Ad-hoc implementations, fragmented tooling, and improvised processes create operational fragility, unclear ownership, inefficient spend, and avoidable exposure of company and customer data—often with compliance implications.
A full-time CIO is not always practical. Yet without senior technical stewardship, investments drift from business objectives, risk compounds quietly, and execution stalls.
OptiZap provides executive-level, deeply technical leadership on a fractional basis. I act as the single point of accountability for the IT function—setting architecture and strategy, establishing decision rights and engineering standards, translating priorities into an actionable portfolio, governing budgets, and defining the security and continuity baselines a modern business requires. To deliver at pace, I lead a small team of consultants and engineers who support analysis, implementation, and runbook development across projects. Capacity scales to the work, while accountability remains with me.
In practice, this means I own key technical decisions and architectures; evaluate, select, and manage MSPs and other vendors; direct my team and coordinate specialist partners as needed; align internal IT staff to clear standards and runbooks; negotiate service levels and commercial terms; and institute the policies, processes, and metrics (uptime, RPO/RTO, MTTD/MTTR, cost allocation) that bring discipline and transparency.
The outcome is a resilient, auditable, and cost-disciplined technology estate that supports growth and withstands scrutiny—delivered without the fixed cost of a full-time CIO.
