Viper Softworks designs, ships, and operates production-grade applications and AI systems — on the frontier in the cloud, or on your own infrastructure when the data can't leave.
Selected engagements over the past decade
Built for regulated industries
See how →01 · What we build
Most projects span more than one of these. We staff for the whole arc — discovery to production to operations.
Agentic systems, RAG, evals, and on-prem deployments. We integrate frontier models when they're the right call and run open-weights on your own metal when they aren't.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Astro, Tailwind. Design systems built to outlive the redesign cycle.
Go, Rust, Python (FastAPI), .NET 9. gRPC, OpenAPI, event-driven systems on NATS or Kafka.
AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare. Kubernetes, Terraform/Pulumi, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions.
Postgres + pgvector, DuckDB, ClickHouse, dbt. Dashboards in Metabase / Grafana that people actually open.
SAST/DAST with Veracode & SonarQube. Runtime APM via Dynatrace, SIEM & log analytics with Splunk. Built for regulated industries from day one.
02 · AI engineering
We don't have a model preference — we have an outcome preference. The pick depends on your data, your latency budget, and your compliance perimeter.
When you want the best available reasoning, lowest time-to-ship, and don't need to keep data on-prem. We're hands-on with the current generation:
When data can't leave the perimeter, latency must be deterministic, or unit economics demand owned inference. Same engineering rigor, your hardware.
03 · Tools of the trade
We pick technology that's load-bearing — boring where it should be, novel where it earns the right.
04 · How we work
Two-week paid sprint. We document the system, the goal, the constraints, and what to build first.
A thin, real version in production-shaped code — not a demo deck. Stakeholders touch it.
Weekly demos, trunk-based, observability from day one. We don't disappear into a fog.
We stay on retainer or train your team. Every artifact ships with a runbook.
05 · About
Viper Softworks was founded in San Antonio in 2010. We've shipped software for kiosks, hospitals, state agencies, e-commerce, and finance — and these days, increasingly, the AI systems wrapped around them.
Same principal engineers from your first call to your last deploy. No bench-warming, no offshore hand-off.
Yes — this is most of our 2025–2026 pipeline. We deploy vLLM or Ollama on customer hardware (single A100 boxes through small clusters), tune open-weight models on your data, and integrate them behind your existing auth and audit infrastructure.
A two-week paid discovery. We can take a single discovery without committing to a build — sometimes the answer is "you don't need us yet."
Both. HQ is in San Antonio; we work on-site within Texas regularly and remote for clients elsewhere in the US.
Yes, when it's the right tool. We've maintained .NET fluency through .NET 9 and still operate several long-running enterprise stacks on it.
Let's build something
Send us a few sentences about what you're trying to build. You'll hear back from a principal engineer, not a sales rep.
