Product engineering & cloud consulting

We build the software and the platform it runs on.

StackGrains is a hands-on product development and IT services partner. We take teams from architecture and MVP through to production-grade cloud platforms — and stay on to run them.

12+years of engineering leadership
3major clouds — AWS, Azure, GCP
100%infrastructure as code
24/7managed operations

Engineering across the modern stack

What we do

Four practices, one delivery team

Most partners either write code or run infrastructure. We do both, which is why the handover between them never becomes your problem.

Product Development

Discovery to launch with a small, senior team. We ship a working product in weeks, then harden it as usage grows — no throwaway prototypes.

  • Product discovery & technical scoping
  • MVP builds and greenfield platforms
  • Web, API, and event-driven backends
  • Legacy modernization and re-platforming

Cloud & Platform Engineering

Landing zones, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability built as code — the foundation that lets your product teams deploy without filing a ticket.

  • Cloud migration & landing zone design
  • Kubernetes and container platforms
  • Terraform / infrastructure as code
  • CI/CD pipelines and release automation

Data & Analytics

Pipelines, lakehouses, and reporting layers that turn scattered operational data into something the business can actually make decisions on.

  • Data lake & lakehouse architecture
  • Streaming and batch pipelines
  • Warehouse modelling & BI enablement
  • ML/AI integration into product workflows

Managed Services & SRE

We stay after go-live: monitoring, on-call, patching, cost control, and the unglamorous reliability work that keeps revenue flowing.

  • 24/7 monitoring and incident response
  • SRE, SLOs, and reliability engineering
  • Cloud cost optimization (FinOps)
  • Security hardening & compliance support
How we work

A delivery model built for momentum

Short cycles, production from day one, and decisions documented so the next engineer — ours or yours — knows why.

Assess

Two weeks in your codebase and cloud account. You get an architecture review, a risk register, and a costed roadmap — whether or not you hire us.

Architect

We pick boring, proven technology that fits your workload and team size, and write down the trade-offs behind every significant decision.

Build

Two-week increments against a working deployment pipeline. Demos over status reports, and your engineers pair with ours throughout.

Operate

Runbooks, SLOs, and on-call from launch day — then a clean handover to your team, or we keep running it under a managed agreement.

Why StackGrains

Senior engineers, not a staffing pyramid

Every engagement is staffed with people who have carried a pager for the systems they designed. You get direct access to the architects doing the work — not an account manager relaying it.

  • Vendor-neutral adviceWe recommend AWS, Azure, or GCP based on your workload and team, not on a partner quota.
  • Everything as codeInfrastructure, pipelines, and environments live in your repositories — reproducible and yours to keep.
  • Fixed-scope first phaseStart with a bounded assessment or MVP so you can judge the work before committing to a program.
  • Knowledge transfer by defaultPairing, documentation, and runbooks are deliverables, not an afterthought at the end.

Engagement models

Pick the shape that fits the problem.

  • Fixed-scope assessment (2–4 weeks)
  • Dedicated product squad
  • Platform build & migration program
  • Retained managed services

What you get

Concrete artifacts, every phase.

  • Architecture decision records
  • Working software in your environment
  • IaC modules and CI/CD pipelines
  • Runbooks, SLOs, and dashboards
Technology

Deep in a focused stack, fluent in the rest

We keep our tooling deliberately narrow so the team stays genuinely expert in it. When your context calls for something else, we say so — and bring in the right specialists rather than bending your architecture to fit ours.

Read our engineering notes

Cloud & infrastructure

AWSAzureGoogle Cloud KubernetesTerraformDocker Serverless

Application engineering

Node.jsTypeScriptPython ReactGoREST & GraphQL

Data

PostgreSQLMongoDBKafka AirflowSparkSnowflake

Delivery & operations

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIArgoCD PrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry
Industries

Where our work lands

Different domains, the same underlying problem: shipping reliable software faster than the business is changing.

SaaS & Startups

Getting from prototype to a multi-tenant platform that survives its first enterprise customer — and its first security questionnaire.

Financial Services

Regulated workloads that need auditability, tight change control, and reliability budgets measured in minutes per year.

Retail & E-commerce

Peak-season elasticity, catalog and inventory integration, and cost curves that do not scale linearly with traffic.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Data platforms with privacy controls built in from the schema up, not bolted on before an audit.

Logistics & Manufacturing

Event-driven integration between operational systems, plus the telemetry to see what is actually happening on the ground.

ISVs & Product Teams

Extra senior capacity that plugs into your existing squads and standards, without a six-month ramp-up.

Insights

Engineering notes from our practice

Practical write-ups on the decisions we help clients make — cloud choices, architecture trade-offs, and delivery tooling.

Tell us what you are building.

Send a short description of your product, stack, or migration. We will reply with an honest read on the approach — and whether we are the right partner for it.