Retainer Light
$5,000per month
- 10 hrs/mo fractional CTO advisory
- Architecture reviews & latency optimization
- Monthly infrastructure health report
- Async Slack + email support
Fractional Infrastructure Advisory
Your CTO for Sovereign Infrastructure
Deep expertise in low-latency trading systems, TEE enclaves, and exchange infrastructure — available as a retainer.
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Nikhil Padala has built trading infrastructure at institutional scale. Previously at high-frequency trading firms, now helping crypto funds architect sovereign, low-latency execution systems.
42µs
signing latency achieved
23
Rust crates in the engine
100+
articles published
Advisory Tiers
Most Popular
Retainer Full
$15,000per month
- Everything in Retainer Light
- 20 hrs/mo hands-on engineering
- Sentinel enclave deployment in your VPC
- Dedicated Slack channel with core engineers
- Custom venue integration engineering
- <1ms halt execution SLA
Embedded CTO
$25–35Kper month
- 40 hrs/mo — embedded in your team
- Full infrastructure ownership & roadmap
- Team hiring & mentorship
- Board / CTO reporting
- 99.9% uptime SLA with warranty
How It Works
01
Book a diagnostic call
Free, 30 minutes. We review your signing path, latency profile, and exchange connectivity.
02
Receive a latency assessment
A written optimization roadmap: where your alpha is leaking, and how to stop it.
03
Choose a retainer tier
Pick the engagement level that fits your fund size and urgency.
04
We deploy, optimize, and scale
Sentinel enclave in your VPC, kernel-tuned execution, custom integrations — all owned by your team.
Book Your Free Diagnostic
30 minutes. No sales pitch. Walk away with an actionable latency roadmap regardless of what you decide.
Every Retainer Full engagement includes Sentinel enclave deployment at no additional infrastructure cost.
Book Your Free Diagnostic