Tidehouse Digital

About us

A new company with deep roots

Tidehouse Digital was born on Vancouver Island with one idea: small businesses deserve the same technology big companies use, explained simply and priced fairly.

Why "Tidehouse"?

On the Island, the tide shapes everything, from the ferries to the fishing to the morning walk. A tidehouse is a home at the water's edge: steady, practical and built to weather change.

That's what we want to be for your business: a dependable home for your website, your data and your tools, while technology keeps shifting around you.

What we believe

  • Plain English. If we can't explain it simply, we shouldn't sell it to you.
  • Fixed, fair prices. You know the cost before we start.
  • You own everything. Your site, domain and data are yours, with no lock-in.
  • AI where it helps, people where it matters.

Experience

12+ years of building software that has to work

  1. Senior Software Engineer

    AOT Technologies · Victoria, BC · 2021 – present

    Leads backend architecture for a workflow automation and API data platform serving enterprise clients.

    • Delivered end-to-end workflow automation that removed manual recovery steps across multi-system processes
    • Helped build a real-time data platform handling 100,000+ requests a minute
    • Cut release time by 40% with zero-downtime deployments on Kubernetes and AWS
    • Owned 24/7 monitoring, and mentored engineers on reliable system design

  2. Senior Member of Technical Staff

    Oracle · 2019 – 2021

    Built backend services for a cloud monitoring platform managing 20,000+ virtual machines.

    • Faster fault detection and incident resolution through better data pipelines
    • Delivered a modern security framework (OAuth2/JWT) across services

  3. Software Developer

    Dell Technologies · 2017 – 2019

    Built services for an enterprise IoT analytics platform processing data from thousands of connected devices.

    • Designed a data export framework handling 1M+ records, sharply reducing report times
    • Moved older applications into containers for consistent hybrid-cloud deployment

  4. Software Developer

    Hexagon Global IT · 2014 – 2017

    Developed systems for a financial investment platform, including real-time calculations and live alerts.

Skills behind your project

What we work with

Websites & apps

HTML/CSSPythonJavaGoFlaskFastAPISpring Boot

AI & automation

AI agentsMCPClaudeOpenAIWorkflow automationTelegram bots

Cloud & hosting

AWSDockerKubernetesCloudflareOn-premise serversBackups

Data

Data migrationSQL databasesMongoDBKafkaSpreadsheets → systems

Let's talk about your business

Coffee in Victoria, or a video call from anywhere in Canada.

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