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Technology engineering

Built to carry the weight of your business.

BlackShadowLabs engineers the cloud platforms, data systems and applications that complex organizations depend on, and stays to run them.

Established
2020
Scope
5 capability areas, 7 engineering services
Available in
English · Deutsch · Français · Español

Our point of view

Most technology fails in the run, not in the plan.

Choosing the right architecture is the easy part. The hard part is keeping it secure, affordable and understood by the people who inherit it. We engineer for that second phase from the first day.

01

Operable by design

We architect for the people who will run a system at three in the morning, not only for the demo that approved the budget.

02

Security is a property

Controls, compliance and access are engineered in from the first commit rather than audited on afterwards.

03

Value lives in the run-state

A platform earns its cost in the years after launch. We judge our work by how it performs then.

Capabilities

Five capability areas. One engineering standard.

Every individual service sits beneath a capability, so you can start with the business outcome and open up the technical detail only when you need it.

How we engage

From first sketch to the third year of operation.

Stage 01

Architect

Frame the problem, the constraints and the target state before a line is written.

Stage 02

Build

Engineer in small, reviewable increments with security and observability included.

Stage 03

Operate

Run what we build, or hand it over with the runbooks your team needs.

Stage 04

Evolve

Tune cost, performance and risk as the business changes around the platform.

Technology

The ecosystem our engineers work in.

Tooling our engineers use day to day. A listing here describes engineering experience and does not imply a vendor partnership, resale agreement or certification.

Cloud platforms

AWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud

Platform & automation

Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · Ansible · Pulumi

Delivery

Jenkins · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI

Observability

Prometheus · Grafana · ELK Stack

Data & AI

Python · TensorFlow · PyTorch · Apache Spark · Apache Kafka

Emerging

Ethereum · Solana · Solidity · IPFS

Bring us the hard problem.

Tell us what has to run, and how it has to hold up. We will tell you how we would build it, secure it and operate it.

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