# Projects by Cloudless Labs

> 13 real projects by Nicolas Dao and Cloudless Labs (Sydney): cloud migrations, cost reduction, real-time IoT, machine learning, legacy modernisation, finance, e-commerce and AI developer tools. Each link is the project's full write-up.

- Web page: https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/

**Why you won't find our clients' names here.** Our clients trust us with their infrastructure, their data and their bills. We don't turn that trust into marketing. Every project on this site is real and described as it happened, with the client named only by what they do. References are available on request, under NDA, once we've talked about your project.

## At Cloudless Labs

- [Off a fragile VPS and onto AWS, with almost no downtime](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/vps-to-aws/index.md): An Australian agriculture-technology company with a large IoT sensor network, agriculture technology. A growing agtech platform ran on a single server that could neither scale nor be secured. I moved all of it to AWS, live, with almost no downtime, then rebuilt it to scale.
- [Cutting an AWS bill from US$240k a year to under US$40k](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/aws-bill-cut/index.md): An Australian agriculture-technology company with a large IoT sensor network, agriculture technology (in progress). An agtech platform was paying about US$240,000 a year for AWS. The programme under way takes it under US$40,000: roughly US$200,000 a year back in the business, for the same workload.
- [Real-time ingestion for a national farm-sensor network](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/realtime-iot/index.md): An Australian agriculture-technology company with a large IoT sensor network, agriculture technology. Thousands of field devices reporting around the clock, processed as the data arrives instead of hours later, on infrastructure that scales with the network.
- [Deep neural networks that forecast the weather](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/weather-neural-nets/index.md): An Australian agriculture-technology company with a large IoT sensor network, agriculture technology. Machine-learning models and deep neural networks, trained on the company's own sensor data with GPUs on Amazon SageMaker, to predict the weather where its customers farm.
- [From legacy ASP.NET and stored procedures to Node.js on serverless](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/dotnet-to-serverless/index.md): An Australian agriculture-technology company with a large IoT sensor network, agriculture technology. A legacy stack of ASP.NET, C# and slow SQL stored procedures, modernised into Node.js on serverless AWS: faster, cheaper to run, and something a modern team can work on.
- [Admin panels and analysis that made a company's data readable](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/internal-tools/index.md): An Australian agriculture-technology company with a large IoT sensor network, agriculture technology. Internal tools and admin panels that let staff see and act on the company's data, built after analysing how the business really worked and removing the waste first.
- [Wealth-management tools that predict returns and test portfolios](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/wealth-tools/index.md): An Australian financial planning firm, finance. Tools for a financial planning firm to track clients' wealth, project returns, and compare strategies against market indexes, balanced portfolios and rebalanced ones.
- [Reaching users where they already are, on WhatsApp and Telegram](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/messaging-bots/index.md): Client projects, technology. Integrations with WhatsApp and Telegram, so a system can talk to its users in the messaging apps they already use, and the hard-won lessons about which platform fights you.

## Our products and research

- [HappySkills, the package manager for AI agent skills](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/happyskills/index.md): Our product, ai developer tools. My own product: a registry and CLI that gives AI agent skills what code has had for decades, dependencies, a lock file, sync and team sharing, all driven by talking to your agent.
- [switch-profile, open-source AWS account switching with SSO](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/switch-profile/index.md): Open source, cloud developer tools. My open-source CLI for working across many AWS accounts: one keystroke to switch, IAM Identity Center done properly, device-code logins on headless boxes, and a contract AI agents can follow.
- [Crypto market analysis and an automated trading bot](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/crypto-analysis/index.md): Personal research project, finance. Quantitative research on crypto markets and an automated trading bot built on it: market data, signals, back-testing and execution, around the clock.

## Before Cloudless Labs

- [An e-commerce platform built from scratch in California](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/ecommerce-from-scratch/index.md): A US e-commerce startup based in California, e-commerce. As director of technology at a US e-commerce startup, I built its platform from the ground up and led teams in Australia and India: checkout, discounts, refunds, US sales tax and APIs that scale.
- [A CRM whose biggest customer was DHL](https://cloudlesslabs.com/work/crm-for-dhl/index.md): A CRM startup, enterprise software. Part of a startup building its own CRM, with DHL as its biggest customer: some of the most complex business logic I've worked on, at the scale of a global logistics company.

## Related

- [How we work](https://cloudlesslabs.com/about/how-we-work/index.md)
- [About Cloudless Labs](https://cloudlesslabs.com/about/index.md)
- [The Stack, in one file](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md): the tools these projects are built with
- [Map of every Markdown file on cloudlesslabs.com, with what each one answers](https://ask.cloudlesslabs.com)
