Software development
Custom apps and platforms for Windows, iOS, Android, and the web — shipped end to end.
Ex-Microsoft engineering · 30+ years · San Antonio, TX
From first sketch to the cloud.
We design and build apps for Windows, iOS, Android, and the web, then stand up the Azure infrastructure and automation that keeps them running.
$ az deployment group create -f main.bicep
✓ resource group rg-client-prod
✓ app service api-client-prod
✓ azure sql sql-client-prod
✓ key vault kv-client-prod
$ gh workflow run release.yml
✓ shipped to production in 4m 12s
What we do
From a first sketch to production and beyond.
We design and build the software, then stand up the infrastructure and automation that keeps it humming.
IT & software consulting
Straight-talking guidance on architecture, tooling, and technical decisions — from strategy to code review.
Azure infrastructure
Cloud buildouts on Microsoft Azure — landing zones, networking, hosting, and cost-aware architecture.
More on Azure →Automation & DevOps
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and scripting that takes the repetitive work off your plate.
Who you’re hiring
Built by a former Microsoft engineer with 30+ years in the industry.
SillyDino is led by an engineer who spent more than two decades inside Microsoft, building and running the infrastructure and tooling behind services used by millions of people. That experience goes into every project, whatever its size.
- 30+
- years in IT, infrastructure, and software
- 20+
- years at Microsoft, most recently as a Senior Software Engineer on M365
- 75%
- fewer incidents needing a human, from one automation project
- 1000s
- of servers and VMs deployed, monitored, and managed
Certified
- Microsoft Certified Professional
- Cisco CCNP
- Cisco CCDP
- ITIL Foundation
Powered by Microsoft Azure
Cloud solutions built to scale, secured from day one.
We build the app and the cloud it runs on, drawing on two decades of running Microsoft’s own online services. Every environment is defined in code, deployed through a pipeline, locked down with identity, and sized to what you actually use.
- Host
App Service & Functions
Web apps, APIs, and event-driven serverless code that scale up under load and down when it’s quiet.
- Data
Azure SQL & Cosmos DB
Relational or globally distributed NoSQL — chosen for your workload, backed up and geo-replicated.
- AI
Azure OpenAI & AI services
Chat, search, document processing, and copilots built on your own data, inside your own tenant.
- Secure
Entra ID & security
Single sign-on, managed identities, Key Vault secrets, and least-privilege access from the start.
- Define
Bicep & Terraform
Every resource written as code, versioned in Git, and reproducible across dev, test, and prod.
- Ship
Azure DevOps & GitHub Actions
Pipelines that build, test, and deploy on every merge, with approvals where you need them.
- Optimize
Cost optimization
Right-sized SKUs, reservations, autoscale, and budget alerts so the monthly bill holds no surprises.
- Move
Migrations from on-prem
Servers, databases, and file shares moved to Azure in planned waves with minimal downtime.
How an Azure project runs
- 01
Assess
We review your current systems, goals, and budget, and recommend what belongs in the cloud.
- 02
Design
A landing zone and architecture covering networking, identity, data, and estimated monthly cost.
- 03
Build
Infrastructure as code plus the application itself, deployed through automated pipelines.
- 04
Run
Monitoring, alerts, cost reviews, and ongoing improvements once you’re live.
Featured work
One we shipped for iOS.
Whoseum
A daily history word puzzle — name the famous figure in six guesses, then explore six halls of hundreds of legends. Designed, built, and shipped by SillyDino, from first sketch to App Store listing.
Contact
Got a project? Let’s talk.
Tell us what you’re building or what’s slowing you down, and we’ll get back to you.
Prefer email?
hello@sillydinosoftware.com
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