The studio · est. Tampa, FL

Built for the deep end

cavenine is a boutique engineering studio for backend and infrastructure work: the distributed systems, security platforms, data pipelines, and databases that sit under everything else. It is deliberately small — senior engineering with no hand-offs, no account layer, no juniors learning on your production system.

We’ve spent our careers on systems where failure is expensive and visible: security products defending millions of endpoints, infrastructure holding millions of concurrent connections, pipelines that cannot silently drop data. That’s the work we take on.

Why “cavenine”?

What we work on

• Distributed systems: consensus, replication, and consistency in large-scale environments — systems that stay correct under partition.
• Security platforms: fleet telemetry, detection pipelines, code signing, and key management for products that protect real fleets.
• Cloud infrastructure: multi-account AWS, infrastructure as code, and the paved roads that let small teams operate like large ones.
• Data & streaming: high-throughput ingest and ETL built on tools like Kafka, Spark, and Airflow — resilient to bad data by design.
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, and specialized time-series and vector stores, tuned from schema to query plan.
• AI in production: LLMs, agents, and retrieval pipelines deployed as real systems, with the reliability engineering that implies.

How we work

Four principles, in order: survey first — understand a system before proposing changes to it; anchor twice — nothing hangs from a single point of failure; run the line — every deploy reversible, every request traceable; carry less — boring technology, chosen deliberately. We don’t chase trends. We pick the tool that will still be the right tool in five years.

Engagements are few and focused: architecture and scaling work, ground-up build-outs, and rescues of systems that have outgrown their design.