Engineering That Scales.
Security That Holds.
From the Last Frontier.
Cloud Gatherer Labs LLC brings over two decades of combined engineering experience to your toughest technical challenges. Our team has shipped federal-scale AI systems, architected live services for AAA game franchises, built ML infrastructure at Apple, and hardened distributed systems serving millions. From 4X strategy to national security applications, we design and operate systems that perform under real-world pressure—because we've done it across industries where failure isn't an option.
AI Systems Built for the Real World
Machine learning in production is a different beast than machine learning in a notebook. We bring academic rigor—Imperial College, Stanford ML certification, published research—combined with years of shipping ML systems that actually work. Our deployments span federal environments with stringent security and compliance requirements, AAA game studios where AI behaviors ship to millions of players, and consumer apps live in the App Store. Whether it's a distributed anomaly detection system presented at ACITA or a reinforcement-learning-tuned search architecture handling national-security workloads, we've done the hard work of taking models from prototype to production at scale.
Our approach to AI systems blends deterministic reliability with probabilistic intelligence. We've designed hybrid search architectures combining trigram matching with RL-tuned ranking, built TensorFlow object detection pipelines for environmental conservation, and shipped segmentation models that identify mountain peaks from GPS coordinates. From procedural content generation and believable AI behaviors in AAA titles to ML infrastructure at Apple—training pipelines, model registries, serving systems—we understand the full lifecycle of AI in production.
- •Federal-scale AI platform architecture with security, compliance, and audit requirements baked in from day one
- •Computer vision and detection systems: TensorFlow object detection, image segmentation, and real-time inference deployed to mobile and cloud
- •Applied ML for interactive systems: procedural generation, game AI behaviors, and real-time decision systems shipping in AAA titles
- •End-to-end ML infrastructure: training pipelines, model registries, multi-cloud serving (AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Azure), and production monitoring
Cloud Infrastructure That Runs Like Clockwork
Kubernetes clusters don't operate themselves—and "it works on my machine" doesn't cut it when you're serving production traffic. We architect and implement cloud infrastructure designed for the real world: auto-scaling, self-healing, observable, and secured at every layer.
We're practitioners of GitOps because we've felt the pain of the alternative. Our infrastructure-as-code implementations use Argo CD, Kustomize, and Helm to create deployment pipelines that are auditable, repeatable, and recoverable. When something goes wrong at 2 AM—and something always goes wrong at 2 AM—you'll have the runbooks, the observability, and the rollback capabilities to fix it fast.
- •Kubernetes architecture: cluster design, Kustomize overlays, Helm charts, and Argo CD GitOps pipelines
- •Multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP with unified observability
- •Distributed systems design with Kafka, event-driven architecture, and resilient API integration
- •Production hardening: auto-scaling, health checks, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation
Native Apps. No Compromises.
We don't just consult on mobile development—we build and ship our own apps as a team. Cheechako, LaunchLogic are Cloud Gatherer Labs LLC products—built natively for iOS using Swift and SwiftUI by both partners, tested in Alaska's backcountry, and live in the App Store with real users.
Cheechako runs a custom segmentation model on-device to identify mountain peaks in real time—no network required, no cloud round-trip, just GPS and ML working together in environments where cell service doesn't exist. LaunchLogic handles precision rocketry calculations in the field, where getting the math wrong means losing hardware. These aren't portfolio pieces; they're tools we built because we needed them, hardened against cold, altitude, and the kind of edge cases you only discover when you're actually out there using them. One partner brings seven years of Apple platform expertise and enterprise iOS deployment at scale (14,000+ devices via Jamf and MDM). The other brings iOS development experience from cloud data warehousing applications, plus the hobby electronics background—Raspberry Pi, Arduino—that bridges software and hardware integration. Together, we cover the full stack from Core ML model deployment to App Store submission.
- •Native iOS development with Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit—built by a team that ships together
- •On-device ML integration: custom segmentation models running locally without network dependency
- •Field-tested in harsh environments: GPS-dependent apps that work offline in Alaska's backcountry
- •Enterprise iOS deployment, MDM integration, and Jamf expertise at scale (14,000+ devices)
- •Hardware-software integration experience spanning Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and sensor data pipelines
Security That's Built In, Not Bolted On
Security debt compounds faster than technical debt—and it's a lot more expensive when it comes due. We've been the person on call during company-impacting incidents, leading rapid response and remediation when systems are actively under attack. That experience shapes how we think about security architecture: defense in depth, assume breach, and make the secure path the easy path.
Our endpoint security work at Apple covered 14,000+ devices across global operations—Macs, iPhones, and iPads that needed to be secure by default while remaining usable. We implemented zero-touch provisioning, automated compliance checking, and configuration management through Jamf, creating systems where security enforcement happened automatically.
- •Incident response and vulnerability remediation with experience leading rapid patching
- •Endpoint security architecture and MDM implementation at scale (14,000+ devices via Jamf)
- •Zero-trust architecture design: identity verification, least privilege, microsegmentation
- •Security automation and compliance tooling integrated into CI/CD workflows
Strategic Advice Grounded in Real Engineering
Technical strategy without implementation experience is just speculation. We've sat in the rooms where investment decisions get made, partnering with executive leadership to evaluate opportunities, quantify trade-offs, and build the business cases that justify engineering spend. Our recommendations come with cost-benefit analyses, decision frameworks, and working proof-of-concepts—not just slide decks.
Architecture consulting is about understanding constraints as much as possibilities. We'll evaluate your current systems honestly, identify the technical debt that's actually costing you versus the debt that can wait, and help you sequence improvements that deliver value continuously rather than betting everything on a big-bang rewrite.
- •Technical due diligence for M&A, vendor selection, and project health assessment
- •Cost-benefit analysis and ROI modeling for engineering investments
- •Architecture review and modernization roadmapping with realistic timelines
- •Proof-of-concept development to de-risk decisions before major commitments
End-to-End Development. One Team. No Handoffs.
Full-stack means we own the problem from database schema to deployment pipeline—and from game server to live dashboard. We've built Go-based APIs and S3-compatible storage systems for enterprise infrastructure, and we've architected online services for AAA games serving millions of concurrent players. When your system needs to handle real-time multiplayer at scale or process telemetry from a global player base, we've done it. Our code runs in production, handles edge cases gracefully, and comes with the tests, documentation, and observability that let the next engineer understand what's happening.
Our combined stack spans the spectrum: C++ and Unreal Engine for performance-critical game systems, Go for cloud-native microservices, Python for data pipelines and tooling, and TypeScript/React for responsive frontends. We've integrated systems that were never meant to talk to each other—Workspace ONE, GCP services, Azure resources, Kafka streams, Databricks warehouses, and legacy APIs with undocumented quirks. That integration work is where full-stack development gets real.
- •Backend development in Go, Python, and C++ for cloud APIs, game services, and systems programming
- •Live services and real-time systems: multiplayer backends, telemetry pipelines, and player-facing dashboards at scale
- •TypeScript/React frontends with modern tooling, plus Python automation and developer tooling
- •Data infrastructure: SQL, Databricks, Kafka, and cloud data warehousing across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- •Containerized deployment with Docker and Kubernetes for consistent, scalable production environments
Let's Build Something Together
Based in Anchorage, we work remotely with clients worldwide. Ready to discuss your project?