Devinity Corp.

CTO as a service for startups

Startups without a technical co-founder can bring in Devinity Corp. as an outside technology partner. Its main service is taking on the chief technical officer role itself. Devinity hires and manages the technical staff and makes sure the tech side of the company supports the business side. The firm presents this as a unique service, shaped by its work with clients who needed exactly this kind of help.

The site argues that a good technical co-founder needs years of experience across software development, and that such people are often too expensive for early-stage companies to hire. It also argues that building a product takes several kinds of specialist, since a single web application may need people to design the interface, build it, implement the business logic and run the infrastructure.

Software product development from idea to live product

Devinity covers the full path from an idea to a product that people use. The firm offers frontend, backend, mobile development and quality assurance testing, and it describes the back end as needing to perform, stay secure and recover quickly if it fails. Mobile work is planned for varied screen sizes, limited connectivity and battery use. The technologies listed on the site include Java, Spring, Python, C#, .NET, Angular, React, Vue, Ionic and React Native.

Infrastructure, design and product management

Infrastructure work covers the cloud providers AWS, Azure and Heroku, and also self-managed data centres using Kubernetes and Docker. The firm says its infrastructure specialists look after daily operations and make sure the platform scales as the business grows. Design comes first, since a clear design shows everyone what needs to be built. Product management covers the roadmap, team organization and checks that development stays on track, using methods such as Agile, Scrum and Kanban, with tools such as Jira and Trello.

Technical advice without the hype

The firm offers technical consulting on the feasibility of a product, the personnel it will need, existing technical problems, technical roadmaps and specifications for future projects. Its site describes a commitment to plain talk about technology. It argues that many buzzwords, including AI, machine learning, MLOps and blockchain, add nothing to a product unless they solve a real problem, and that a founder needs help to tell which is which.

Origins as a community of builders

Devinity started as a community of people working on technology projects, ranging from mobile applications to medical devices. The firm says its members have strong ties with developer communities across North America and Europe. Its site also says the people behind it have built products of their own, which the firm presents as the reason it understands how hard it is to move from an idea to a product people use.

Staffing a team by the business need

The company forms teams according to what a business needs. Tech leads manage each team, quality assurance resources control the product, and devops staff handle infrastructure. The model suits smaller companies that cannot afford to hire every type of specialist on their own. The firm decides the number and type of developers the project needs and takes care of their logistics and contracts.