Your
Fractional
Chief
Technology
Officer
Services Offered
Product Roadmapping
Condensing your Technicolor visions into black & white roadmaps with granularity tuned to your startup’s stage.
Dev Team Leadership
As a certified Professional Scrum Master, Robert accelerates product delivery through judicious application of Agile process.
Architecture Design
Complexity can come later. Startups must build only core technologies and leverage off-the-shelf tech for the rest.
Hands-on Development
Robert still gets his hands dirty daily, especially with AWS, Python, Ansible, Terraform, and lately a lot of generative AI tools.
Your New CTO
As a fractional Chief Technology Officer, Robert Raines commits to your team’s mission like an equity-holding founder. From wooing investors to leading your development team, you may introduce Robert as your CTO. When you are ready for a full-time CTO, he will guide your search and provide a graceful transition.
Robert brings to your team deep expertise in systems architecture, engineering leadership, and information security. As VP of Engineering and Nisos, he grew engineering from a team of one to 15 as the company grew from seed to series B. Previously, Robert honed his skills in secure architecture and complex data management building mission-critial solutions for the United States Intelligence Community,
Immediate Results
Tech Sanity Check
A Tech Sanity Check is a one-time assessment of:
- development team and process
- software and systems architecture
- information security posture
The review produces concrete recommendations for immediate gains and charts a path for longer term improvements.
Timeline
Conducted over 2 - 3 weeks.
Cost
From $2,000 - $5,000, depending technology, team, and scope.
Ongoing Support
Strategic Coaching
2 hours every month
$250/hour
We’ll cover:
- Structuring your goals into an executable plan.
- Identifying technologies that are right for you.
- Maintaining focus and momentum.
Architecture Design
5 hours every week
$4.2K monthly, save 15%
We’ll go well beyond the Strategic Coaching topics to cover:
- Defining product and technical milestones
- Designing scalable, secure system architecture
- Guiding MVP development
Delivery Acceleration
10 hours every week
$7.5K monthly, save over 25%!
We’ll build on Architecture Design by:
- Leading your dev team in Agile to ensure rapid, responsive delivery cycles.
- Charting a technical roadmap for a scalable, secure architecture.
- Focusing innovation on your core technologies.
I started Solint because I am passionate about using technology to serve a large purpose. From supporting US Intel Community to leading a threat intelligence startup, serving a mission greater than myself has sustained me. Now, I delight in helping startups launch and prosper.
Running a business myself, I understand budgets are tight and time is precious. Reach out. Let’s chat about how you can maximize both to reach your goals faster.