A senior software studio in Dallas–Fort Worth, TX, building production-grade systems for B2B SaaS, mobile, and AI integration. Founded August 2022 by Mike Carpenter, with a decade of production engineering experience.
Contact: hello@duralabs.io · 214-702-1439
Add production-grade AI capabilities to existing products without rebuilding them. Vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and large language model (LLM) orchestration designed for systems already serving real users — with the observability, fallbacks, and cost controls a live product needs.
Senior technical leadership for startups and growth-stage companies. Architecture decisions, hiring plans, vendor selection, and go-to-market readiness from someone who has been the operator on the other side of the table. Currently serving as Fractional CTO at LifeWipe Inc., a digital asset management platform for life insurance brokers. Previously CTO at eCarra, a ride-sharing and mobility platform.
Native iOS and Android applications, including white-label and multi-operator architectures serving multiple brands from a unified codebase. 50+ apps shipped to the App Store and Google Play across consumer and B2B markets.
High-availability backend systems, real-time data pipelines, and the hard integrations that production businesses depend on: Stripe and payments, third-party APIs, IoT, CRM. Built to run continuously, not just to demo well.
Architected and operate the real-time platform powering 960,000+ smart home and early-warning sensors deployed worldwide. Sustains 10,000+ requests per minute with continuous uptime, multi-region failover, and the kind of observability that keeps a safety-critical product trustworthy.
CTO for a multi-sided mobility marketplace spanning consumer and driver mobile apps, dispatch backend, payment processing, and EV charging integrations. Owned the technical strategy through product-market fit and the infrastructure decisions that supported scale.
Designed and shipped a production AI orchestration pipeline with vector-database-backed retrieval for a digital asset management platform serving regulated industry customers. LLM workflows, evaluation harnesses, and retrieval architecture built into a system already in customers' hands.
B2B SaaS, Smart Home / IoT, Mobility & Ride Sharing, EV Charging, Direct Sales, Lead Generation, CRM & Subscription Billing, Digital Asset Management, Gig Economy, Franchise Operations, Emergency Detection, Health & Wellness.
Built to last. We architect software that's still running five years after launch. The smart home infrastructure that started as a contract engagement is still in production, still scaling, and still maintained by us.
Senior-only execution. No junior engineers learning on your project. You work directly with someone who has shipped production systems for a decade across mobile, backend, and infrastructure.
Full-stack ownership. Mobile, backend, infrastructure, payments, integrations — one operator, one accountability point, no handoffs between specialists who have never met.