Our Story
About Peripatetic Labs
Founded and led by Brent Williams, Peripatetic Labs is a consulting practice dedicated to helping organizations move from concept to code — and from broken to better. With over two decades of experience in full-stack development, platform architecture, and technical product leadership, Brent brings both strategic perspective and hands-on engineering skill to every engagement.
Whether it’s building a product from scratch, modernizing a legacy codebase, or solving complex backend and data challenges, Peripatetic Labs delivers software that works — and lasts.
How We Help
Fractional CTO & Technical Co-Founder Support
We help early-stage teams get from idea to MVP with architecture, hands-on development, and product leadership.
Full-Stack Development
From back end to front end, cloud to mobile, we have the technical depth and breadth to implement your vision — including Java/Spring, Python/Django, Typescript/React, Next.js, Flutter/iOS/Android, C#/.Net, and LAMP.
Legacy Application Support and Modernization
We have decades of experience designing and building software across modern and legacy platforms, operating systems, languages, and frameworks.
Architecture & Cloud Infrastructure
We architect and deploy resilient and scalable web applications, databases, and APIs to AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
Data and Analytics
We model, optimize, and program SQL databases, non-SQL databases, and data warehouses. We perform ETL and custom data conversions. We utilize MySQL/MariaDB, Elasticsearch, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle database servers. We generate data visualizations with Highcharts and Metabase.
Product-Focused Engineering
We deliver high-performance platforms with minimal oversight, aligning product vision with execution, and collaborating effectively across engineering, product, and executive teams.
Selected Projects
Statt Inc.
Public Policy Search Engine
Architected and developed version 1.0 of the cloud-native Statt SaaS application, a public policy search and analytics engine, described at https://statt.com. The Statt platform utilizes web scraping, natural language processing, and machine learning to aggregate and analyze public policy content from over 10,000 think tanks, advocacy organizations, academic institutes, and trade associations, enabling semantic search at scale.
Stealth Fintech Startup
Fiduciary Accounting Platform
Architected and developed the MVP of a SaaS platform (Spring Boot API, React SPA web application, iOS/Android mobile apps, AWS and Azure cloud hosting) serving a niche fiduciary market. Delivered all product definition, back end, front end, and cloud infrastructure.
National Writing Project
NWP Dashboard SaaS Application
Architect, develop, and maintain a suite of user-friendly full-stack web applications for an educational non-profit's grants management system, including data gathering, reporting, and data visualization. Tools used include Python, Django, MySQL, and Metabase.