AM Adaptive Minds, Inc.

Corp-to-Corp · Remote or hybrid · US citizen

Senior cloud & Java architecture, contracted Corp-to-Corp.

Adaptive Minds, Inc. places a hands-on principal architect on your team to design, build and modernize enterprise systems on AWS. We also act as an accelerated solution provider, owning delivery end to end across cloud, web and platform-independent mobile. Independent consultancy since 1999, contracting directly or through your preferred vendor.

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  • 25+years contracting as Adaptive Minds
  • 60microservices in one production SaaS platform
  • 10kretail pharmacies on inventory systems we built
  • DoDFedRAMP-aligned cloud transformation experience

Accelerated solution provider

End-to-end delivery, from idea to production

Need more than a contractor? Adaptive Minds can own the whole solution. That means architecture, cloud backend, web and platform-independent mobile apps, CI/CD and launch, delivered on an accelerated timeline under one C2C contract.

  1. Discover & architectRequirements, a right-sized AWS architecture, API contracts and a delivery plan with clear milestones.
  2. Build in parallelCloud microservices, web front end and cross-platform mobile app built together against shared APIs.
  3. Automate & secureContainers, CI/CD pipelines, automated tests and identity/security in place from the first sprint.
  4. Launch & hand offProduction go-live, monitoring, documentation and knowledge transfer to your team, or ongoing support.

One accountable provider

A single point of ownership for design, build and deployment, instead of coordinating several vendors.

Any device, one codebase

Mobile deliverables that work across iOS, Android and desktop browsers, so you don't pay for separate native builds.

Built to scale and hand off

Production-grade code, infrastructure as code and documentation that your team can own and extend.

Why engage Adaptive Minds Corp-to-Corp

One contract with an established corporation. Principal-level output, without the overhead of a full-time hire.

Incorporated & contract-ready

Adaptive Minds, Inc. has contracted with enterprise clients since 1999. We work under your MSA/SOW or ours, directly or through staffing and prime vendors, with standard C2C invoicing and terms.

Principal architect, hands on keyboard

You get the architect who writes the code: requirements through design, implementation, CI/CD and production support. No bait-and-switch and no layers of junior staff.

Ramp in days, not months

Decades of short-to-mid-term engagements mean fast onboarding into existing teams, codebases and Agile ceremonies. Many contracts are extended well past their original term.

Regulated-industry fluency

Financial compliance and trade surveillance, FDA clinical trials, DEA-controlled pharmacy inventory and DoD security programs. We know how audits, controls and change management work.

US citizen, remote or hybrid

Based in East Greenwich, RI. Remote nationwide, or on site across Providence, Boston and southern New England.

Flexible engagement models

Hourly C2C staff augmentation, accelerated end-to-end solution delivery, fixed-scope deliverables, architecture assessments and modernization roadmaps, or short advisory retainers.

Services

Full-lifecycle delivery of distributed, multi-tier enterprise systems and cloud microservices.

AWS cloud architecture & migration

Moving monoliths to cloud-native designs on ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudFront, Route 53 and IAM. Right-sized infrastructure, cost awareness, and infrastructure as code with CloudFormation and Terraform.

Java & Spring microservices

Spring Boot and Spring Cloud REST and batch services, and event-driven designs on Kafka and ActiveMQ, built for high throughput, high parallelism and reliable transactions. Tested with JUnit and Mockito.

Modern web front ends

Angular (1 through current), React/Redux and TypeScript single-page apps, component libraries, dashboards and D3/Kibana analytics, connected cleanly to versioned APIs.

Platform-independent mobile

A single codebase that runs on iOS, Android and the web: responsive and progressive web apps, cross-platform front ends and secure REST APIs built for mobile. Proven on connected fitness devices and field-service GIS apps.

Accelerated MVPs & proofs of concept

Reference implementations and working prototypes that prove an architecture or product idea quickly. Built to harden into production rather than be thrown away.

DevOps, CI/CD & containers

Docker, Compose, Kubernetes and ECS pipelines on Jenkins, GitHub Actions and CircleCI, with gated automated testing and hands-free deployments. We build pipelines so developers can run the full stack locally.

Security & identity

OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Okta, SAML and Spring Security. Service-to-service token security, IAM policy design, and fixes for findings from penetration tests, Fortify and SonarQube scans.

Data, integration & analytics

Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB and Elasticsearch design and tuning; Spring Batch/Integration, Kafka streaming and Snowflake/Informatica ETL; statistical APIs and exportable analytics.

Selected engagements

Representative contracts delivered by Adaptive Minds. Client names available on request.

  1. 2020 – present

    Life sciences SaaS platform · Principal Architect / Full-Stack

    Architected and built a cloud platform of 18 core and 42 auxiliary microservices that speeds up FDA clinical trials. It ingests, enriches and analyzes IoT medical-wearable data (including continuous glucose monitoring and COVID-19 studies) for large pharmaceutical sponsors.

    AWS · Spring Boot/Cloud · Angular · MongoDB · Elasticsearch · Okta/OAuth2 · Docker

  2. 2019 – 2020

    Defense contractor · Senior AWS Architect (contract)

    Moved a monolith to cloud-native microservices for a security program countering violent extremism and human trafficking. Integrated IAM and Okta token security to meet DoD FedRAMP recommendations. The 6-month contract was extended to 11.

    AWS · Lambda · EKS · Kafka · ELK/Neptune · React · CircleCI · Terraform

  3. 2018 – 2019

    National pharmacy & healthcare retailer · Sr. Java Architect (contract)

    Built Rx inventory systems for about 10,000 retail pharmacies, including DEA controls for controlled substances, and led the Angular build of a next-generation clinic inventory application.

    Java EE · REST · Oracle RAC · ActiveMQ · Angular · SQL Server

  4. 2014 – 2018

    Top-tier investment firm · Technical Lead & Application Architect

    Compliance, risk and trade-surveillance technology. Split a surveillance monolith into microservices, cutting the delivery cycle from 2 months to 3 weeks. Helped lead the firm's effort to make its applications cloud-ready.

    Spring Boot · Oracle PL/SQL · NICE Actimize · Angular/React · Jenkins · Docker

  5. 2003 – 2014

    Fitness wearables, security software, municipal utility, lottery tech, business credit

    AWS architecture for a mobile fitness platform, principal Java EE work for a security-information firm, and GIS billing and field-order systems for a US top-ranked water utility. Also architecture for a global lottery technology company and a business-credit data provider.

  6. 1999 – 2003

    Dot-com era enterprise web

    Senior engineering and web architecture across several contracts, including a B2B supplier marketplace acquired by Ariba.

Industries served

  • FinTech & financial services
  • Trading compliance & AML
  • Life sciences & clinical trials
  • Pharmacy & healthcare
  • Defense / DoD
  • Government & utilities
  • GIS
  • Credit & lending
  • Fitness wearables / IoT
  • Procurement
  • Semiconductor manufacturing
  • Education

Technology stack

Cloud

AWS (primary): ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, VPC, RDS/Aurora, ACM. Also Azure, GCP, VMware.

Backend

Java, Spring Boot/Cloud/Data/Batch/Integration/Security, JPA/Hibernate, Kafka, ActiveMQ, REST/OpenAPI, Python, C#.

Web & mobile

Angular, React/Redux, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS3, responsive/PWA, Android Studio, Material, PrimeNG, Bootstrap, D3.

Data

Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, DB2, MongoDB/Atlas, Elasticsearch, Redis, Neptune, Snowflake.

DevOps

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Maven/Gradle.

Security & quality

OAuth2, OIDC, Okta, SAML, LDAP, SonarQube, Fortify, Splunk, Datadog, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium.

Credentials: B.S. Computer Science (cum laude), Marist College · Oracle Certified Java Programmer · IBM Certified Systems Programmer · CyberPatriot cybersecurity coach

How a C2C engagement works

  1. Intro callScope, stack, team fit, timeline and location (remote, hybrid or on site).
  2. ProposalRate, term and deliverables, under your MSA or ours. Direct or through your vendor of record.
  3. PaperworkStandard C2C onboarding: MSA/SOW and vendor setup.
  4. DeliverProductive in the first sprint, with regular status reporting and a clean handoff at the end.

Have a contract role or project?

Send the role description or SOW and we'll respond within one business day with availability and a C2C rate.

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Adaptive Minds, Inc. · East Greenwich, Rhode Island