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Fractional CTO Texas: Development, Deployment and IT

For Texas businesses that need a CTO to own the whole IT picture: the software, the integrations, the point of sale and the cloud it runs on.

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CTO advisory
$1,500/mo · 20 h
Fractional CTO
$2,800/mo · 40 h
CTO + build
$4,800/mo · 80 h
Full-time equivalent
$8,000/mo · 160 h

The core decision

What a fractional CTO Texas business gets

Texas companies, from Austin software startups to Dallas and Houston operators in restaurants, retail, logistics and healthcare, often need a CTO for the whole IT estate rather than one app. A fractional CTO Texas engagement with me covers the architecture, the development, the integrations between systems and the deployment, on Central hours. Austin fractional CTOs typically bill $200 to $275 an hour; my plans start at $1,500 a month.

In depth

Restaurant and retail technology, end to end

At Omnitech I led DinDin, a restaurant suite of online ordering, POS, back office, kitchen and customer displays, and marketplace integrations that turned GrubHub and DoorDash order emails into native orders with no API to call. IMFlow360 took the same ideas to a multi-tenant POS with an offline-first Flutter terminal.

Proven on DinDin

Complete restaurant technology suite connecting online ordering, POS, back-office operations, kitchen displays, customer displays, and marketplace ord...

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In depth

One owner for software, integrations and cloud

Most Texas operators do not need another vendor; they need someone accountable for how the vendors fit together. That means the data flows between systems, the AWS account they run in, and a plan for the ones that break first.

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Proven on IMFlow360

Multi-tenant SaaS POS platform pairing a Laravel cloud with an offline-first Flutter point-of-sale and a paired customer-facing display, serving retai...

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In depth

Apps your staff use every day

The Pinnacle Hospitality Management System, with iOS and Android apps for projects, tasks, payroll and HR, was built end to end and is still live on the App Store and Google Play. Internal tools like that are often the fastest return a Texas operator gets from a CTO.

Fit

Who this helps

  • Restaurant, retail and hospitality groups running POS, online ordering and delivery platforms side by side.
  • Austin SaaS startups that need their first architect and a hands-on reviewer.
  • Operators whose systems do not talk to each other, some with no API at all.
  • Businesses preparing for the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act’s rules on personal data.

Scope

What I take on

  • Architecture and stack decisions, written down with their reasons
  • Hands-on development: Laravel, Node.js, Next.js, Python, Flutter and React Native
  • Deployment and cloud operations on AWS, from CI/CD to monitoring and backups
  • Multi-tenant SaaS design: tenant isolation, roles and permissions, per-tenant settings
  • Integrations, data migration and legacy systems, including ones with no API
  • AI features on your own infrastructure when they pay for themselves

Deliverables

What you get

  1. A technology roadmap tied to what the business needs this quarter
  2. Code, infrastructure and releases you own, in your repositories and accounts
  3. A written decision record your next engineer can read
  4. A weekly working session on US hours, plus async updates

Evidence

Related work

All case studies
Platforms & SaaS Chief Technology Officer DinDin Complete restaurant technology suite connecting online ordering, POS, back-office operations, kitchen displays, customer displays, and marketplace orders. Laravel 11Livewire 3React 19 Read the case study Platforms & SaaS Chief Technology Officer IMFlow360 Multi-tenant SaaS POS platform pairing a Laravel cloud with an offline-first Flutter point-of-sale and a paired customer-facing display, serving retail, restaurant, salon/spa, and appointment businesses from one connected system. Laravel 11Livewire 3Flutter Read the case study AI & Infrastructure Chief Technology Officer Pinnacle Hospitality Management System Internal hospitality management SaaS with an administration portal and mobile apps for projects, tasks, payroll, HR, team chat, and discussion email. SaaSAdmin web applicationHybrid mobile Read the case study

Further reading

Related technical writing

  1. Integrating a System With No Public API
  2. Multi-Tenant Isolation: Two Working Answers
  3. A Safe Upwork Automation Playbook: From Job Alerts to Better Proposals
  4. SaaS Platform Architecture: The Decisions That Come First
  5. Virtual CTO: What One Does, What It Costs, What It Ships
  6. Multi-Tenant Access Control: Three Layers That Must Stay Separate
  7. Fractional CTO Rates: Hourly, Monthly and What You Get
  8. Building an Upwork Job Alert Workflow With n8n
  9. Laravel Multi-Tenancy: Four Pieces, No Package
  10. Hire Fractional CTO Help: Ten Questions to Ask First
  11. How to Decide Whether an Upwork Job Is Worth the Connects
  12. Node.js Multi-Tenant SaaS: AsyncLocalStorage and Row-Level Security
  13. Interim CTO vs Part Time CTO: Which One You Need
  14. Django Multi-Tenant SaaS and FastAPI: Two Tenancy Models
  15. Single Tenant vs Multi Tenancy: What Each Costs to Run
  16. Multi-Tenant Next.js: Rewrite URLs by Host With Proxy
  17. Multi-Tenant CMS: Two Websites on One Platform

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Questions and answers

Fractional CTO Texas: common questions

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Do you serve all of Texas as a fractional CTO TX businesses can hire?

Yes, remotely, on Central time: Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and anywhere else. The plans and the work are the same in every city.

What does it cost?

Four monthly plans: CTO advisory at $1,500 for 20 hours, Fractional CTO at $2,800 for 40 hours, CTO plus build at $4,800 for 80 hours, and a full-time equivalent at $8,000 for 160 hours. Ad hoc work is $75 an hour. A US fractional CTO usually charges $170 to $250 an hour, and that rarely includes writing the code.

Do you work on US hours?

Yes. I work full time on US time zones, remotely, with a weekly working session and the same-day answers a product team needs. I do not have a local office and do not claim one.

Can you take over systems another vendor built?

Yes. The first two weeks are a written review of the code, data and infrastructure, with what to keep, fix or replace before anything new is built.

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