Software architecture
Data models, API contracts, service boundaries and event-driven patterns, built for production from day one.
System designAPIsEvents
Accepting new engagements · Oregon · Remote
One senior engineer, from architecture to production.
Staff Solutions designs, builds and runs the whole system: AWS serverless backends, identity and access, and AI features that ship. No handoffs between people who never met.
Services
The whole stack, one owner.
Hire for one of these or all six. The point is that you don't have to coordinate them.
Full-stack engineering
Frontend to backend, infrastructure to CI/CD. Figma to production without a handoff in the middle.
ReactGoFastAPI
AWS cloud and serverless
Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito and S3, from configuration through production.
LambdaDynamoDBIaC
Identity and access
Graph-based authorization, OAuth and OIDC flows, credential management. Patent-pending IAM architecture.
OIDCNeo4jGraph IAM
AI and agentic systems
Agentic workflows, LLM tooling, persistent memory and QLoRA fine-tuning, wired into real systems.
Claude APIRAGQLoRA
DevOps and platform
GitHub workflows, Docker, monitoring and automated testing: the foundation that makes teams fast.
ActionsDockerPrometheus
Work
Shipped for clients. Built in the lab.
Client work
FinTech · Buckler AI Delivered
Buckler Due Diligence
Investment professionals screen securities, run peer comparisons, work structured diligence and export research from one dashboard.
- Role
- Architecture through production
- Stack
- FastAPI · HTMX · PostgreSQL · Chart.js
Music and commerce In development
Dead Life Inc v2
A multi-tenant platform where each band sells merch, streams shows and runs ticketing and loyalty as a fully isolated tenant.
- Scale
- 65+ permissions across 4 roles
- Stack
- Next.js 15 · Firebase · Stripe
Products and lab
IAM-GO / Nexus Proprietary · Patent pending Graph-based IAM with cryptographically assured credential linking, multi-hop Neo4j traversal, ML trust scoring and SoD conflict detection. All in Go. In development
Cipher Personal product · AI An AI coding assistant that doesn't forget: verifiable persistent memory, a knowledge graph of what it learns, and QLoRA fine-tuning from experience. Private
Self-hosted platform Infrastructure 31+ production services across 14 Docker Compose stacks. Jenkins health-checks every container; AI agents run daily security audits and backup verification. In production Cascade Inversion Cosmology Research · Computational physics Sandpile simulations that reproduce published critical exponents, run on a self-healing AWS spot fleet with checkpoint-resume. Active research Free tools
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About
One engineer. Complete ownership.
Staff Solutions LLC is a software engineering consultancy built around one principle: full-stack accountability. No segmented work, no handoffs. One owner, start to finish.
Deep experience across Go, Python, React, AWS and distributed systems, including patent-pending IAM architecture and production AI integrations. Projects go from whiteboard to a working, tested system in production.
Shawna Staff Founder and principal engineer · Oregon
Capabilities
- Figma-to-production
- AWS serverless setup
- DynamoDB schema design
- GitHub and CI/CD
- Backend and UI testing
- Post-launch stabilization
- Graph-based IAM design
- Multi-tenant SaaS
- AI and LLM integration
- Docker and monitoring
Contact
Tell me what you're building.
A few sentences is plenty: the problem, where it stands, and when you need it.
- shawnastaff@gmail.com
- Phone
- (541) 876-7773
- Location
- Oregon, USA · Remote