Internal tooling and infrastructure for small teams.
We design and maintain the boring, load-bearing parts of a software stack — deployments, observability, backups, and the scripts nobody wants to own. No dashboards for the sake of dashboards.
Platform setup
Reproducible server configuration, TLS, and release pipelines sized for teams of two to twenty.
Observability
Metrics and log collection that answers questions instead of generating alerts nobody reads at 3 a.m.
Maintenance
Ongoing care: patching, capacity review, and the slow cleanup work that never makes it into a sprint.
About
Northwind Systems is a two-person practice working with product teams that have outgrown a single server but do not need a platform department. We keep engagements small and long-lived.