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Work · selected engagements · most still live

Eight years is normal here.

A selection of client engagements. Most are still ongoing. Several have run eight years or more.

01
Insurance · Portland, Oregon
Rails AWS Postgres

We introduced Ruby on Rails to The Standard's engineering org, trained their in-house team, and built the data-intake and processing engine that handles thousands of insurance policy transactions every night. We continue to operate it.

Duration 8 years & counting
Work Data intake and processing
Support Ongoing production ownership
Throughput ~10k policies / night
02
Enterprise insurance · USA
Approved supplier Insurance domain

ClearStack is an IBM USA approved supplier. We are currently engaged in multiple projects through the IBM relationship at our shared client, Standard Insurance — bringing senior Rails engineering capacity to large enterprise workstreams.

Duration Multi-year
Work Approved supplier engagement
Support Active
Relationship Approved supplier
03
Non-profit infrastructure · USA
Terraform Ansible Packer AWS

Bonterra helps non-profits run online fundraising and donor CRM. ClearStack is a development partner and manages the infrastructure-automation codebase — Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, Packer images — that runs the AWS deployment.

Duration Multi-year
Work Infrastructure automation
Support Ongoing
Scope Infra-as-code, end-to-end
04
Research operations · Berkeley, California
Rails ERP rewrite CMS

We performed a complete rewrite of MSRI's ERP application and the institute's website content-management system. The work continued under managed support and ongoing development for the research-program operations.

Duration Project + support
Work ERP and CMS rewrite
Support Shipped and supported
Outcome Full ERP + CMS rewrite
05
Global non-profit · San Francisco
Rails Peer-managed Water + sanitation

To build an information clearinghouse of water and sanitation projects worldwide, ClearStack built a peer-managed platform on Ruby on Rails. We continue to provide application and infrastructure support to the global research network.

Duration Ongoing
Work Peer-managed project platform
Support Application and infrastructure support
Sector Global development
06
SaaS · Palo Alto, California
Permitsoft logo Permitsoft
AWS Deployment automation Managed hosting

We've managed Permitsoft's AWS cloud deployment for eight years. As part of the infrastructure work, we established the deployment automation and version-control protocols that the deployment continues to run on.

Duration 8 years
Work AWS deployment management
Support Ongoing
Hosting Managed AWS
Many of our engagements aren't on this page.

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