Cloud · Security · AI engineering · Oxford, Mississippi, since 2015
A senior engineer leads every engagement. We find what is actually wrong, fix it at the root, and hand you evidence an auditor, a board, or a buyer can check. On Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
Prefer to talk? (662) 626-0732, answered 24/7 by the AI receptionist we built and run.
Built for where your business is right now. The same senior engineers, scoped to the size of the problem, and every engagement quoted before work starts.
For owners who live on the phone, or who shipped an app fast and now need it to be safe with real customers.
For teams whose cloud estate grew faster than the people running it, and whose bill nobody can fully explain.
For healthcare, financial services and AI platforms where "it works in the demo" is not enough.
What we do
Cloud estate, security controls, data and AI infrastructure: the parts that decide whether software is safe, reliable and affordable to run.
Audit-ready Azure environments, built compliant from day one or brought there.
Enterprise AI that is grounded, isolated and affordable to run.
An audit of what you actually run, then the fixes, through reviewed infrastructure-as-code.
For products built fast that now need to be trusted with real users, data and money.
Recent results
Real engagements. Client names withheld unless the client agreed to be named.
How we work
Step 1
A senior review of your app, cloud estate or AI platform, scoped and quoted before work starts. It ends in a prioritized plan you own, whether or not we do the work.
Read-only baseline audit of a SaaS estate: 52 findings, 9 critical and 11 high.
Step 2
Database-enforced isolation, keyless identity, money movement a retry cannot duplicate. Formal change control on live systems and infrastructure-as-code on new ones.
Tenant isolation enforced in the database, so a code bug cannot leak another customer's data.
Step 3
Evidence an auditor, a board or a buyer can check, plus run-books and knowledge transfer. If a fix will not save what we hoped, we say so.
Change records, before and after metrics, and a documented path to run it without us.
Who we are
Hat Boy Software was co-founded in 2015 by September Gray and Matthew Gray in Oxford, Mississippi. The people you meet are the people who do the work: a senior engineer owns each engagement end to end, from architecture to run-books to knowledge transfer.
Matthew, our CTO, is a systems engineer with more than 25 years of hands-on delivery, from embedded firmware to multi-cloud platforms and enterprise AI. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University.
Start here
A senior review of your app, cloud estate, or AI platform. Scoped and quoted before work starts. It ends in a prioritized plan, so you decide what to fix and when.
