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Cloud-native architecture
Containers, Kubernetes, multi-region from day one. The cost of going there later is paid once; we'd rather not pay it twice.
- K8s
- Multi-region
- Containers
- 12-Factor
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Engineering
End-to-end software for systems that must not fail.
Manifesto
Software is mostly written for the happy path. We aren't paid to do that.
The engagements that justify a studio rather than a contractor are systems where the cost of failure is non-trivial, a claim that doesn't process, a trade that doesn't reconcile, a patient who doesn't get treated. We engineer for those.
That means explicit error budgets, instrumented call paths, runbooks before launch, drills before downtime. The work compounds, every system we ship makes the next one cheaper to operate. We don't ship into someone else's pager.
The pillars
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Polyglot platforms
TypeScript and Python for product surfaces. Go and Rust for the parts that must not stall. Language is a tool, not a religion.
- TS
- Python
- Go
- Rust
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Observability before launch
Every call path instrumented, every SLO defined, every alert routed before the first user. If you can't see it, you can't operate it.
- OTel
- SLOs
- Tracing
- Honeycomb
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Continuous delivery
Daily deploys, canary releases, instant rollback. Feature flags as a discipline. Release cadence is a forcing function.
- Canary
- Feature flags
- GitOps
- Rollback
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Resilience as a feature
Chaos engineering, runbooks, DR drills. We don't trust uptime; we engineer it.
- Chaos
- Runbooks
- DR
- Game days
What we ship
- Cloud-native architectures · Kubernetes · containerization
- Web platforms · App development (iOS, Android)
- Database design · data modelling · migrations
- Automation, testing, and CI/CD pipelines
Stack
TS · Go · Rust · Python
AWS · GCP · Azure · K8s
The lattice · interactive
Four layers. Pick one to see what we engineer there.
Layers explain structure. This explains who talks to whom.
Legend
- Gateway · request entry
- Service · business logic
- Store · persistent data
- Observer · telemetry sidecar
Click any node to focus its connections.
Nine practices. Five published standards. Forty-five cross-references.
The standards an engineering procurement team will check against. Sub-clauses from NIST SP 800-53, the Secure Software Development Framework, ISO/IEC 25010 product quality, the ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 testing standard, and SLSA supply-chain levels, mapped to the engineering practices that satisfy each.
FIG. v · practices × frameworks
Engineering practice to standard mapping
Each cell names the specific sub-clause our practice satisfies. Not checkmarks. Cells marked "—" mean the standard does not address that practice area, not that we don't do it.
| Engineering practice | NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 | NIST SSDF SP 800-218 | ISO/IEC 25010:2023 | ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 | SLSA v1.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Secure SDLC | SA-3, SA-8, SA-11 | PO.1, PW.1, PW.4 | § 5.6 Security | Part 1 § 6 | Source L2 |
Architecture + design documentation | SA-8, SA-17, PL-2 | PO.4, PS.1 | § 4 Quality-in-use, § 5.7 | Part 4 § 5 | — |
Test discipline + coverage | SA-11, SA-15 | PW.7, PW.8 | § 5 Product quality model | Parts 1-5 (full) | Build L2 verification |
Code review + quality gates | SA-11(1), SA-15(7) | PW.7, PW.8 | § 5.7 Maintainability | Part 4 § 6 | Source L3 two-party review |
CI/CD + build pipelines | CM-2, CM-3, CM-4, SA-15 | PO.3, PW.4, PW.6 | § 5.7 Maintainability | Part 5 | Build L1-L4 (full track) |
Supply chain integrity | SR-3, SR-4, SR-5, SR-6, SR-11 | PO.5, PS.3 | § 5.6 Security | — | Build L3 + Source L3 (primary) |
Observability + SRE | AU-2, AU-3, AU-6, SI-4 | RV.1 | § 5.5 Reliability, § 5.2 | Part 2 § 7 | — |
Incident response | IR-1, IR-4, IR-6, IR-8 | RV.2, RV.3 | § 5.5 Reliability | — | — |
Resilience + chaos engineering | CP-2, CP-9, CP-10, SC-5 | PW.4.2 | § 5.5 Fault tolerance | Part 4 § 9 | — |
9 practices · 5 frameworks · 45 mappingsDoc · INS-ENG-STD-v2026.Q2
Standards versions: NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 (September 2020, control catalog), NIST SSDF SP 800-218 v1.1 (February 2022, Secure Software Development Framework), ISO/IEC 25010:2023 (Software product quality model, supersedes 25010:2011), ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 Parts 1-5 (Software testing standard, supersedes the withdrawn IEEE 829 test documentation standard), SLSA v1.0 (OpenSSF, Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts). Sub-clause references verified at build time.
Posture
99.99%
Production uptime · 2025
47
Deploys per week · cross-engagement
6
Cloud regions · active
4+
Languages · per typical platform
Frameworks & methodology
Languages we ship
- TypeScript
- Go
- Rust
- Python
- Kotlin
- Swift
- Java
Coverage
Engagement · redacted sample
Engagement with Insurance, full-stack rebuild of claims platform. MTTR cut from 4h to 12 minutes via instrumented service mesh and canary deploys.
Hover or focus the bar to reveal · client identity protected