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Marshall Tech operates on a principal-delivery model: the senior architect who scopes your engagement is the same person who builds and ships.

Nick Hugh

Nick Hugh

Founder & Principal Consultant

Nick Hugh, Founder & Principal Consultant at Marshall Tech

Nick is a tech entrepreneur with 8+ years of experience spanning systems architecture, software engineering, database design, and modern frontend UX/UI. He is deeply passionate about exploring the relationship humans have with product, and how this is constantly evolving in the emerging machine-to-machine era. Before founding Marshall Tech, Nick led technical teams building products used by tens of thousands of users. He now provides fractional CTO leadership to growing Australian businesses. The same person who architects the solution also writes the code and ships it to production.

Credentials

  • 8+ years enterprise and startup technical leadership
  • Former technical lead at scale, with products serving tens of thousands of users
  • Systems architecture, software engineering, database design specialist
  • AI implementation specialist (Claude Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6, OpenAI 5.2, 5.2 Codex, Deep Research o3-deep-research-2025-06-26)
  • Placed and won prizes in global hackathons
  • Built a proprietary SDUI framework and infrastructure from the ground up

Proof points

  • Optimised CRM challenges with True Protein to streamline key pipelines
  • Built SportsBlock from concept to 50k+ MAU in 6 weeks on a $40k budget
  • Overhauled backend tech stack for KIKOFF with multitenancy product build
  • Created the Marshall Tech Authority Engine: automated content pipeline processing 100+ topics/month

Areas of expertise

Fractional CTO LeadershipAI Strategy & ImplementationSystems Architecture & Database DesignModern Frontend UX/UICustom Software DevelopmentTech Stack Optimisation

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