VectorForge, LLC
Thirteen years of shipping connected products — native mobile apps, embedded firmware and Bluetooth Low Energy, and the cloud architecture holding it together. One owner for the whole stack, no handoffs between vendors.
Native iOS and Android, shipped to real users.
Apps that talk to hardware over BLE, stay correct when the connection drops, and survive the review process. Plus the test infrastructure that keeps them shippable — device farms, automated UI runs, CI that actually gates.
Firmware for devices that have to work unattended.
Zephyr RTOS on Nordic silicon, Bluetooth Low Energy, and cryptographic protocols that have to fit in whatever flash is left. Devices where a dropped message is not an inconvenience.
The backend those devices report into.
MQTT ingest, serverless services and the whole estate defined in Terraform. Low latency as a design constraint, plus the integration APIs that let other systems consume it.
Selected work
A volunteer-run state sports body was running WordPress on a PHP version that had been end-of-life for three years, with half its pages unreachable and every competition result buried in a PDF. I rebuilt it as a static site with a real content model, cut running costs from $283 a year to about $12, and handed the board a CMS they can actually use.
Read the case study →A BLE-enabled personal safety device where pressing a button has to raise an alarm — reliably, from a coin-cell device, through a phone that may be backgrounded, to a backend that has to notify someone within seconds. I own the firmware, both mobile apps and the serverless infrastructure behind them.
Read the case study →LISNR transmits data as inaudible high-frequency audio. I built the portable C++ SDK that ran it on payment terminals and conference hardware, the low-latency audio stacks on iOS and Android, and then the WebAssembly port that brought the whole thing to a browser tab.
Read the case study →Firmware, an app, the cloud behind them, or all three. Tell me what you are trying to ship.