RTR-001 · EST. 2021 38.8951° N · 77.0364° W — · — UTC Currently accepting Q3 engagements

We engineer the web from foundations up.

A precision web engineering studio. We design and build custom infrastructure on AWS — no website builders, no SaaS lock-in, no shortcuts. Static sites, web applications, ecommerce, and service platforms, hand-written to outlast your roadmap.

Static Sites Web Applications Commerce & Stripe Service Platforms AWS Infrastructure CloudFront + S3 Lambda Backends Terraform IaC GitHub Actions CI/CD Custom Code Only Static Sites Web Applications Commerce & Stripe Service Platforms AWS Infrastructure CloudFront + S3 Lambda Backends Terraform IaC GitHub Actions CI/CD Custom Code Only
00/ Manifesto

Most web work today is rented. Templates on platforms, plugins on plugins, dashboards you don't own. We build the opposite. Every RotorDev site is hand-written code on infrastructure you control — no builders between your business and the people you serve. That's slower upfront and faster forever.

01/ Disciplines Four practices · one engineering standard
  1. D-01

    Static sites

    Marketing pages, portfolios, brochure sites. Hand-coded HTML, CSS, and lightweight JS delivered from CloudFront. Faster than anything you've ever loaded.

    • S3 + CloudFront
    • ≤100ms TTFB
    • Edge-cached
  2. D-02

    Web applications

    Full-stack products — auth, data models, dashboards, integrations. We pick the smallest stack that fits the job and own every layer.

    • Lambda / ECS
    • Postgres / DynamoDB
    • Custom auth
  3. D-03

    Commerce & checkout

    Stripe-integrated stores and product flows without the Shopify tax. PCI scope stays at Stripe. You keep margins and customers.

    • Stripe Connect
    • Webhook-driven
    • Zero platform fees
  4. D-04

    Service platforms

    Booking, intake, lead capture, customer portals. Built for service businesses where every conversion has to land — no leaky funnels.

    • Form pipelines
    • SES email
    • Calendar APIs
02/ Method Five phases, one continuous loop

Engineering with a blueprint — not a stack of templates.

  1. M·01

    Audit

    We start with constraints, not features. Traffic, conversion goals, technical debt, compliance, team capacity — written down, agreed on, signed.

  2. M·02

    Architect

    Infrastructure diagram, data model, third-party surface area. Everything you'll touch operationally, before a single line of product code is shipped.

  3. M·03

    Engineer

    Hand-written code in small, reviewable commits. Production-grade from day one — no "we'll harden it later" technical debt traps.

  4. M·04

    Deploy

    Terraform Cloud + GitHub Actions. Every change is reviewed, planned, and applied through CI. Zero click-ops in the AWS console — ever.

  5. M·05

    Maintain

    Monitoring, dependency hygiene, quarterly audits. The site you launched in year one keeps shipping in year five.

03/ Stack What's under the hood
Compute & Edge
  • AWS CloudFront HTTP/2 · HTTP/3 · IPv6
  • S3 private origin OAC · no public buckets
  • Lambda@Edge request shaping
  • AWS Lambda Node 24 · arm64
Data & Identity
  • Postgres on RDS or Neon · or DynamoDB
  • Stripe payments · subscriptions
  • SES transactional email
  • Route 53 DNS · health checks
Pipeline
  • Terraform Cloud VCS-driven applies
  • GitHub Actions OIDC · no static keys
  • ACM auto-renewing TLS
  • WAF managed + custom rules

// No website builders. No SaaS frontends. Every layer above is something you'd build yourself if you had the time. We have the time.

04/ Selected work A small sample · ask for the full deck
W-001

Atlas Aero static

Brochure site for a regional charter operator. Static, edge-cached, sub-second loads worldwide.

2024Static · Contact
W-002

Halton Ledger webapp

Multi-tenant bookkeeping dashboard. Custom auth, document pipeline, audit log. Owned end-to-end.

2024Webapp · Postgres
W-003

Northbound Goods commerce

Direct-to-consumer outerwear store. Stripe checkout, headless cart, no platform tax.

2023Commerce · Stripe
W-004

Meridian Care service

Home-care intake platform. Booking flow, secure intake forms, SES routing to dispatch.

2023Service · Bookings
04+Years operating in the wild
32Sites shipped on this stack
99.99%Composite uptime, 12-mo trailing
0Click-ops deployments. Ever.
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Tell us what you're trying to ship, where it's stuck, and when it needs to be live. We'll respond within one business day with a scoped plan or a referral to someone better fit.

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