Blackcat Informatics® Inc.

About

Blackcat Informatics® Inc. provides high end IT and management consulting services to the Alberta startup and high-tech community. We have well over 25 years of solid startup experience in executive management as well as domain expertise covering high performance and cloud computing, military-grade security, carrier-grade networking, bioinformatics, machine learning, satellite imaging, geomatics, cryptology and a variety of other boutique fields.

The hallmarks of our work include minimal footprints, leveraging open source solutions, and exploiting problem isomorphisms.

Services

• Fractional CTO: high level management and guidance, executive oversight and execution.
• Development Alignment: helping to bring development shops in closer alignment with the rest of the company (et vice versa), agile process tuning and development HR help.
• Solution Architecture: finding elegant solutions to complex technical problems, applying sparse resources efficiently and future-proofing technology strategies.
• Cloud Navigation: large scale deploys, from clusters and grids to lambdas and micro services, devops automation and helping you navigate the rapidly evolving cloud.
• Startup Process and Execution: managing a path through the wilds of the startup and early-stage funding world with less pain and more success.
• Programming: Golang and over 15 other languages spoken, AI and machine learning, Jupyter notebooks, spatial data analysis and bespoke esoterica. True full-stack, snout-to-tail, development.
• Corporate Engineering: finding optimal corporate and team structures to streamline and focus.