Production data infrastructure, AI tooling, and custom applications — for healthcare, government, research, and mission-aligned teams that need software to actually work and last.
Informed by senior production engineering — not opinions from outside the work. We do it end-to-end, document it, and hand it off in a state your team can own.
Multi-source data integration, harmonization, and visualization for teams that need clear answers from messy inputs. Architectures designed to absorb schema change instead of forcing rewrites.
Agentic frameworks, RAG pipelines, and decision-support tools that ship to real users. The hard parts are the data, the evals, and the security posture — not the model calls.
Full-stack systems for nonprofits, government, research, and mission-aligned startups. Documented as we build. Trained at handoff. Owned by your team afterward.
You shipped a working prototype with Claude, Cursor, or v0. We rebuild it on a foundation that survives real users — auth, evals, observability, deploy pipeline. See below.
You shipped a working prototype with Claude, Cursor, or v0. It demos. It even charms. But it has no auth model, no migrations, no evals, no observability, no deploy pipeline — and the code is held together with vibes. We rebuild it on a foundation that survives real users.
A mix of named engagements and credit lines. Some clients require permission before we name the project — those appear without details below.
Two integrated products — a consumer accessibility equipment marketplace with AI-powered triage, and a SaaS platform for independent occupational therapists. Backed by Techstars, Black Ambition, Jumpstart Foundry, Missouri Technology Corporation, Social Venture Studio, and LaunchKC.
Architected multi-service AI infrastructure on GCP Cloud Run — FastAPI, Vertex AI Agents, FastMCP servers — with WIF-based service-to-service identity across AlloyDB, Redshift, and CloudSQL. Led the first AI project for the personal-care business unit.
Architected an R-Shiny app inside a Red Hat OpenShift service mesh on AWS for the USGS water use data service. Azure auth, async processing, Tableau dashboards on a Dremio lakehouse, multi-stakeholder integration with legacy systems.
Application/API development for a new labor enforcement system for the New Jersey Department of Labor, contracted through Research Improving People’s Lives. Python, FastAPI, serverless on AWS via Terraform. Shipped finished product with a small team in three months.
Designed and led a full-stack web development training program for non-degreed adults. JavaScript, React, Node, MongoDB, Express, web ethics — taught through a critical pedagogy lens. Curriculum design, job task analysis, process improvement.
OT Evaluation and $1500 in equipment delivered the clinical signal for the outcome study.
Program management for a UMKC workforce development initiative with Yoodle Education Services.
SME role on ARPA-funded digital skilling programs.
The LLC was formed in 2026, but the practice is older — Willie has consulted under his own name since 2022. The firm formalizes work that has been running for years.
Started in safety-critical avionics — seven years at Garmin building embedded C software for the Integrated Flight Deck, including autopilot UI configuration. FAA-compliant development, requirements tracing, the works. The discipline carries through.
Pivoted in 2020 to teach a full-stack web-development training program for non-degreed adults at Skilled KC. Started consulting under his own name in 2022 for various local and national startups, education institutions, and non-profits — including developing software at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Research Improving People’s Lives in Rhode Island, and at WellSky on the first AI project for their Personal Care business unit. Also the Founding CTO of AskSAMIE.com.
Leads the firm’s technical practice. Active in neighborhood and community work in Kansas City, Kansas, including four years on the board of the Strawberry Hill Neighborhood Association including as president from 2020–2024.
Fixed-fee for well-defined scopes. Time-and-materials for exploratory work. We tell you which fits before we start, not after.
Learn the problem. Talk to stakeholders. Audit existing data and systems. Produce an architecture proposal with clear scope and milestones. Separately-scoped, fixed-fee.
Iterative development against the architecture, with regular check-ins and demos. We document as we go — not at the end.
Source code, infrastructure-as-code, runbooks, training materials, and live training. Your team owns what we build. Defined warranty period; optional ongoing support arranged separately.
Email is the fastest path. We respond within two business days. If you’d rather talk first, we’ll send a calendar link.
