About Robert Raines

I enjoy

• Building and leading technical teams as a compassionate servant leader.
• Evaluating and negotiating with technology vendors with laser focus on ROI.
• Data engineering from design to development, especially on wildly heterogeneous data.
• Balancing mission against security across policy, architecture, and end users systems.
• Teaching and mentoring

I've been fortunate enough to

• Build engineering and internal technology teams from scratch to over 15 engineers, both internationally and domestically
• Guide a startup's technology team from seed through series B.
• Guest lectured at George Mason on law and policy for big data.
• Data engineering, systems and security architecture, and AWS cloud integration for the US Intelligence Community.
• Extensive international travel for work and fun.

I value

• Humility and openness to feedback leading to personal growth.
• Building and working in diverse teams.
• Working through challenges to establish productive, stable relationships.
• I strive always to be kind, honest, and fair.