The Company

About BrightApps.

We build custom software and AI infrastructure for organizations that are serious about changing how their operations actually run.

Enterprise, federal government, defense, and nonprofit teams hire us when the off-the-shelf answer stopped fitting the work.

Our Mission

Replace the manual coordination layer with software that respects people's time.

We build the AI infrastructure that absorbs the copying, checking, and shuttling between apps — so the people we work with can spend their hours on the parts of the job only a person can do.

Our Vision

A generation of AI that people trust because it earned the trust.

Efficient by design, honest about its footprint, and built to a standard the next engineer, the next auditor, and the next generation can live with.

Who We Are

A collection of highly experienced engineers who specialize in custom solutions for enterprise and government — and who would rather build one thing well than ten things quickly.

Capabilities

What we actually do, in plain terms.

01

Software Development & Programming

Custom software built to fit the way a team actually works.

  • Full-stack engineering across web, mobile, and internal tools — designed around the workflow, not around a template.
  • Modernization of legacy systems that organizations still depend on, without ripping out the parts that already work.
  • Long-lived codebases owned by the client, documented for the next engineer, and supported as the underlying technology evolves.
02

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

AI that fits inside real operations, not demos that look good in a slide.

  • Applied AI for classification, extraction, forecasting, and decision support — trained and evaluated against the client's own data.
  • Retrieval-augmented systems that let AI work from an organization's own documents, records, and institutional knowledge.
  • Human-in-the-loop design so the person using the tool stays in control of the outcome.
03

Cloud Computing & DevOps

Infrastructure that runs quietly and holds up under audit.

  • Cloud architecture on AWS, Azure, and GCP, sized to the workload instead of the sales pitch.
  • CI/CD, observability, and disaster recovery built in from day one, not bolted on after an incident.
  • Security posture appropriate to regulated environments — federal, defense, healthcare, and finance.
04

Emerging Technologies

New tools, evaluated honestly before they touch production.

  • Blockchain, distributed systems, and quantum-informed cryptography — used where they solve a real problem, not because they're on trend.
  • Prototyping and technical due diligence for leadership teams weighing a bet on unfamiliar technology.
  • Straight answers about what's ready, what isn't, and what the cost of being early actually is.
Team-Centric Innovation

How the team is built is part of the product.

We stay small on purpose. Every engagement is staffed by senior engineers who own the work end-to-end — because that's the only structure that produces software worth keeping.

One team, one accountability.

The people who scope your work are the people who build it and the people who answer the phone when something breaks. No handoffs to a delivery org you've never met.

Say no when no is the right answer.

If a project shouldn't be built the way it's being described, we say so. Losing a project is acceptable. Shipping something indefensible is not.

Small enough to care, deep enough to deliver.

Decades of combined experience across enterprise, federal, and defense work — organized as a team that stays close to every engagement instead of scaling headcount for its own sake.

Leadership

The people who scope your work are the people who build it.

Engineering & Data Science

Senior engineers who own the work end-to-end.

Mac McGregor
01

Mac McGregor

Lead AI & Robotics Engineer

Leads the BrightArc framework and its use cases across BrightShields drones and Bright360 — combining mechanical engineering, AI, and data science.

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Zahir Alsulaimawi
02

Zahir Alsulaimawi

Data Scientist / ML Engineer

Ph.D. researcher specializing in privacy-preserving machine learning, federated learning, and SWARM intelligence.

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Kristen Fuller
03

Kristen Fuller

DevOps Engineer II

AWS Cloud Engineer and DevOps Specialist. USAF veteran and 2024 Customer Champion Award recipient. AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

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Michelle Macaraeg
04

Michelle Macaraeg

Software Engineer

Backend Python engineer for LLM and NLP applications. Network Lead for Women Who Code, San Francisco.

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Joseph Ayodele
05

Joseph Ayodele

Software Engineer

Java, Python, and AWS engineer for the talent acquisition and management industry. AWS Solutions Architect — Associate.

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Christopher McGregor
06

Christopher McGregor

Software Engineer

Full-stack engineer and patent holder. Deep experience in blockchain, DeFi, AI, and disruptive technologies across enterprise and government.

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David Hutchings
07

David Hutchings

Senior Engineer

Senior full-stack engineer and Scrum Master. Leads Agile innovation across AI, blockchain, and machine learning engagements. US Patent #10,547,493.

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George Lund
08

George Lund

Senior Engineer

Lead Software Engineer for ML solutions. Spans embedded microprocessors to large-scale server clusters, with a specialty in high-performance vector matching.

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Jean-Marc Beaujour
09

Jean-Marc Beaujour

AI / ML Data Scientist

Ph.D. physicist and Senior Data Scientist. 15+ years across R&D. Builds LLM pipelines, deep learning models, and computer-vision systems.

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Ernest Shaffer
10

Ernest Shaffer

DevOps Engineer

20+ years of DevOps and Systems Administration. AWS infrastructure, Terraform, Ansible, and hardened open-source tooling.

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Canming Huang
11

Canming Huang

AI / ML Data Scientist

15+ years in data science, machine learning, and computer vision. Creator of Emgu CV and Emgu TF (1M+ downloads/year).

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Amanda Lewandowski
12

Amanda Lewandowski

Software Engineer

Integrates NLP and AI into custom software that scales to thousands of daily requests.

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Abdoul Oumarou
13

Abdoul Oumarou

Software Engineer

Engineers high-performance backend systems on Java 17 and Spring Boot, with a focus on long-term maintainability.

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Who We Work With

Serious operators, in industries where the details matter.

Our work is covered by confidentiality agreements, so we don't publish client names. Here is what we can tell you. We have built for large companies, federal agencies, defense organizations, and industries that get audited closely. The results we care about are simple ones: hours of manual work that no longer have to happen, and fewer ways for something important to quietly go wrong. And we handle information the way organizations whose own customers demand it need us to.

Ready to see what AI infrastructure actually looks like?

Discovery calls are the starting point. Tell us about your organization and we'll tell you whether we're the right fit.