Background
Lattice Engineering grew out of more than a decade of building, operating, documenting, and maintaining production software.
The work started in independent product and software development: web applications, product interfaces, internal tools, marketing systems, and technical assets for companies, startups, and independent founders.
Over time, the same problem kept showing up. The difficult part was not just getting software built. The harder part was keeping it understandable, maintainable, and useful once it became part of how the business worked.
That shaped the work that followed.
From 2014 through 2018, I built and published technical education for JavaScript developers through The Meteor Chef. That work focused on practical full-stack application development: how applications are structured, how developers understand them, and how early technical decisions affect long-term maintainability.
From 2017 through 2021, through Clever Beagle, I advised early-stage software founders on product strategy, application architecture, interface systems, and production delivery.
The work included internal platforms for mentorship, scheduling, customer management, and operational coordination. It also made one thing clear: once software becomes part of daily operations, product decisions and operational decisions stop being separate.
During that same period, I served as fractional CTO for Youblicity, where I led technical architecture, platform development, and production operations for an adtech platform supporting real-time analytics, viewer tracking, campaign activity, reporting, and payout systems.
That work required responsibility across application architecture, infrastructure, deployment, production reliability, and scaling under real operating pressure.
The next five years were spent building Joystick, Push, and Mod.
Joystick began as a full-stack JavaScript application platform focused on production application structure, deployment consistency, server/client architecture, and long-term maintainability.
Push was built to deploy Joystick applications to infrastructure the operator controlled, using traditional Linux infrastructure rather than hiding production behind a managed abstraction.
Mod was built as a design system and CSS framework for shipping consistent user interfaces.
That work covered the practical operating layer around production software: Node.js applications, Linux servers, DNS, TLS, Cloudflare, deployment systems, backups, monitoring, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3-compatible storage, and the conventions needed to keep applications understandable over time.
Eventually, the platform work became less interesting as a public developer-tool product and more useful as an operating foundation.
In 2026, Joystick, Push, and Mod were moved private and adapted into the technical base for Lattice Engineering.
The stack now supports the work Lattice exists to do: take long-term responsibility for production software, internal tools, deployment, monitoring, operational coordination, and the gradual stabilization of software environments businesses depend on.
