Production-Grade Quality
We build for long-term operation. The system that runs reliably six months after launch matters more than the demo on day one.
Our Story
About Cirrus Lake Solutions
Senior engineers building production-grade software and cloud systems for organizations with serious technical needs.
Why We Started
Software built for the long run.
Cirrus Lake Solutions was founded in 2023 by engineers who had spent years watching the same pattern play out. Software gets built to ship a launch, then quietly falls apart under real production load. Compliance work gets bolted on at the end, slowing teams down for months. Senior engineers get pulled into firefighting instead of architecture. None of it is anyone's fault, exactly. It is just what happens when consulting firms optimize for hours billed instead of systems that last.
We wanted to do this differently. Bring in senior engineers from day one. Treat compliance and operational readiness as the work, not a checkbox at the finish line. Embed in client teams instead of pitching from outside. Use AI-augmented engineering where it makes the team faster without giving up oversight. Build what your team can actually own and extend after we leave.
Today we work with federal health research agencies, technology platforms, and organizations across regulated industries where the engineering challenges are real. The common thread is clients who care about what their systems look like a year from now, not just on launch day.
What We Care About
Mission & Values
The principles we hold to, even when delivery pressure pushes the other way.
Transparency
Clear communication, honest status, no black boxes. If something is at risk, you hear about it before it becomes a problem.
Partnership Over Transactions
We embed with your team, not pitch from the outside. Your goals are our goals, your timeline is our timeline.
Craftsmanship
Documented, maintainable, considered. Code your team is not afraid to touch six months from now.
Our Team
Meet Our Leadership
Practitioners with deep experience across software engineering, cloud architecture, and technology strategy.
Ashley Johnson
President
Ashley leads Cirrus Lake Solutions with a focus on operational excellence, transparent communication, and a people-first approach to client engagements. She is the primary contact for new partnerships, contracting, and engagement structuring. Her background spans operations leadership, engagement management, and the kind of cross-team coordination work that keeps complex programs from drifting off track.
Tony Petersen
Chief Technology Officer
Tony drives technical strategy and engineering execution at Cirrus Lake Solutions. He has shipped production systems across cloud-native architectures, secure software delivery, and AI-augmented development. He is Google Cloud Generative AI Leader certified and works closely with client engineering teams on architecture, platform operations, and modernization strategy.
