About us Tampa, FL
Adam and Andy met in 2009 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, writing Ruby on Rails ground software for what is now the Artemis program. In 2026 they founded Stowzilla, built the whole platform themselves, and open-sourced the tools. Stowzilla Labs is that same team, building for you.
[ HOW WE GOT HERE ]
Adam and Andy meet at NASA, writing Ruby on Rails ground software for what is now the Artemis program. That software is still in use today.
Andy spends fifteen years at Kennedy building the Rails apps behind the Launch Control System. Adam moves into cybersecurity research for DARPA and NASA, then AWS consulting.
We start a storage company in Tampa and build the whole platform ourselves on AWS: customer and staff apps, inventory, photos, AI recognition, and search.
The pieces clients kept asking about ship as open source: Belt, ActiveItem, Conveyor Belt, and Brainiac.
Stowzilla is featured in Ruby Central's inaugural Ruby Runway Showcase. Read it
The same team, building AI-powered applications, Ruby backends, and AWS systems for other companies.
[ WHAT WE BRING ]
A launch doesn't get a second try. We test the paths that matter before they ship, not after a customer finds them.
Code we wrote in 2009 is still running. We write for the engineer who inherits it: plain structure, clear names, and no clever tricks.
Our own company runs on Belt, Conveyor Belt, ActiveItem, and Brainiac. If something breaks, we're the first to know.
We're founders. We watch the cloud bill and the calendar as closely as the code.
[ LEADERSHIP ]
Co-founder · CEO
AWS consultant and former NASA ground systems engineer. Adam has also done cybersecurity research for DARPA and NASA. His focus is secure architecture, intelligent supply chains, and cloud that doesn't cost more than it should.
Co-founder · CTO
Fifteen years at NASA Kennedy Space Center building the Rails apps behind the Launch Control System: data ingest, reporting for launch operations, a status app 500+ engineers used for a decade, and an upgrade from Rails 2.3 to Rails 7.2. At Stowzilla he built Belt, Conveyor Belt, and Brainiac.
andydavis.dev[ CONTACT ]
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