we're miles and o'brien.

We met writing code for other people's companies. Got tired of watching good ideas get bad implementations, so we started doing it ourselves in 2022.

team
two engineers
based
California + Hawaii
since
2022
avg. client
18 months

the whole team.

No account managers, no handoffs. These are the two people who take the call and write the code.

~/team/obrien co-founder
O'Brien McQuade, CEO and co-founder of Stacware local Pacific time

O'Brien McQuade

  • CEO
  • lead developer

Full-stack engineer obsessed with clean code and the craft of taking a messy business process and turning it into something a user can love.

specobrien.cfg
runs point on
client relationships, product direction
home
Temecula, CA
years shipping
7+
stack of choice
nuxtpostgrestypescript
weakness
a really well-named function
~/team/miles co-founder
Miles Inada, CTO and co-founder of Stacware local Hawaii time

Miles Inada

  • CTO
  • lead developer

Full-stack engineer with a soft spot for hardware, networks, and the layers most people pretend don't exist.

specmiles.cfg
runs point on
architecture, infra, the "but why is it slow" questions
home
Kalaheo, HI
years shipping
6+
stack of choice
nodelinuxwhatever's boring
weakness
overbuilt home lab

small, focused, long-term teams make better software than big, busy, short-term ones.

Stacware exists because the usual agency math (account manager + project manager + three juniors + a subcontractor) produces software nobody is proud of. We picked a different constraint: two engineers, a short list of clients, long engagements, strong opinions. So far, it works.

We also mentor new devs, open-source the parts we can, and try to leave the local tech scene a little less lonely than we found it.

team.config
−6 +4
  1. account manager
  2. project manager
  3. junior developer
  4. junior developer
  5. junior developer
  6. subcontractor
  1. two engineers
  2. a short list of clients
  3. long engagements
  4. strong opinions
so far, it works.

the numbers, such as they are.

Two engineers, a short list of clients, long engagements.

  • metric / team
    2
    engineers on every project
  • metric / retention
    18mo
    average client relationship
  • metric / fuel
    infinite
    coffees consumed (approx.)

two engineers, one inbox. we answer it.

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