Cloud, security & AI engineering for regulated and growing businesses
Senior-led engineering that finds what is actually wrong, fixes it structurally, and proves it with evidence — across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Healthcare compliance, payments correctness, platform reliability, enterprise AI, and rescue for apps that outgrew how they were built.
See our case studies- In business since 2015
- 5–8 year client relationships
- Azure, AWS & Google Cloud
- Team certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate · Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate · HashiCorp Certified Implementation Partner — Terraform, Vault & Consul
What we do
We work on the layer beneath the product — the cloud estate, security controls, data, and AI infrastructure that decide whether software is safe, reliable, and economical to run. Every engagement is led by a senior engineer and backed by evidence you can check.
Cloud Security & Compliance
HIPAA- and NIST-aligned Azure environments, built compliant from day one or brought to audit-readiness. Landing zones as Infrastructure-as-Code, SIEM and logging that actually feed your detections, private networking, and customer-managed encryption.
Case study →Applied AI Engineering
Enterprise AI that is grounded, isolated, and affordable to run. We deploy retrieval-augmented generation into regulated tenants, build multi-tenant agent platforms, design real-time voice agents, and engineer LLM spend down without giving up quality.
Case study →Platform Reliability & FinOps
An audit of what you actually run, then the fixes: observability, identity, backup and disaster recovery, and a cloud bill you can attribute and defend. Delivered through peer-reviewed, Infrastructure-as-Code change.
Case study →App Stabilization & Rescue
For products built fast — including apps generated with AI tools such as Bolt, Lovable, or Cursor — that now need to be trusted with real users, real data, and real money. We find what is broken, fix it without a rebuild, and hand you a codebase you can own.
Case study →Recent results
Real engagements, anonymized. Measured, not assumed.
Who we are
Measured, not assumed.
Hat Boy Software is an engineering firm based in Oxford, Mississippi, delivering since 2015. We work beneath the product — the cloud estate, security controls, data, and AI infrastructure that decide whether software is safe, reliable, and economical to run. A senior engineer leads every engagement from assessment through hand-off, and our findings come with evidence an auditor, a board, or a buyer can check.
How we work
Structural fixes over vigilance. We close classes of problems — database-enforced isolation, keyless identity, idempotent money movement — not one-off instances. Change you can audit. Formal change control on live systems and Infrastructure-as-Code on new ones. Honest reporting. If a fix will not save what we hoped, we say so.
Our servicesNot sure where to start? Start with an assessment.
A senior review of your app, cloud estate, or AI platform, scoped and quoted before work starts, that ends in a prioritized plan, so you decide what to fix and when.
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