A hands-on technology leader helping engineering organizations turn AI from hype into shipped, production-grade software — with the security and compliance guardrails that regulated industries actually require.
Carrying forward two decades of CTO-level consulting — now focused on modern, agentic development.
The near-term opportunity is AI — adopted properly. The foundation is seasoned technology leadership. Most engagements blend the two.
Help your teams get real value from AI in how they build software — not demos, but delivery.
The CTO-level consulting practice, carried forward.
The methods I bring to clients are ones I develop and run myself — including open-source platforms and compliance tooling for regulated codebases.
An open-source multi-agent development orchestration platform for running AI coding agents in a disciplined, testable, trackable workflow.
Open sourceAn open, provider-neutral usage-and-cost metering library — granular visibility into what AI-assisted development actually costs, per unit of work.
Open sourceAdversarial security and compliance review agents (HIPAA/PHI, PCI, SOC 2) that gate AI-generated code in regulated environments. Available within an engagement.
Private · under NDAS-River Services is the independent consulting practice of Mike McGonagle, carrying forward the CTO Services practice he led at BostonCIO — now sharpened around bringing modern, AI-accelerated engineering to teams that need it.
The pitch is simple: a seasoned technology leader who is hands-on with the current generation of AI development tools, and honest about where they help and where they don't.
Whether you're trying to get real leverage from AI in your engineering org or you need seasoned CTO leadership, start with a conversation.
contact@s-riverservices.com