Software · Infrastructure · AI

Your ideas are ready to scale. Your systems can’t keep pace.

Graphline Systems is a founder-led engineering firm. We build custom software, make infrastructure reliable, and help teams put AI to work, with deep roots in biotech and agentic, knowledge-graph systems.

Berkeley, CA · SF Bay Area

From manual to mission-critical.

  1. Before Manual & Reactive Issues in spreadsheets. No visibility. Slow response times.
  2. Discovery Assess & Plan Deep technical assessment and roadmap creation.
  3. Transformation Build & Automate Architecture redesign, testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
  4. After Scale & Operate Scalable platform with observability, reliability, and automation.
Real engagement results
  • 33Days end-to-end transformation
  • 700+Automated tests added
  • 77%Memory reduction
  • 10xAutoscaling capacity
  • ~800Hours per month returned to scientists

If any of this sounds familiar, we should talk.

Your team waits on analysis and pipelines instead of doing the science.

Deployments need tribal knowledge, and only one person can run them.

You want to put AI to work, but can’t separate the real wins from the hype.

Critical knowledge lives in people’s heads and walks out the door.

Infrastructure costs keep climbing while reliability keeps slipping.

You need senior engineering leadership, but not a full-time CTO yet.

Seventeen years in the hardest parts of production.

17years
building platform & infra orgs
99.97%
uptime restored at Nursa
33days
biotech platform, research → prod
32engineers
platform/SRE org led at Wayfair

Five ways we close the gap to production.

Custom Software, AI & Agentic Systems

When off-the-shelf tools fall short, we design and build custom platforms, internal tools, and integrations, including AI-enabled and agentic workflows and knowledge-graph systems that keep institutional knowledge usable.

Outcomes
Purpose-built software
AI & agentic workflows
Clean integrations
Maintainable architecture & handoff
Explore Custom Software, AI & Agentic Systems
Graphline Systems

A founder-led firm, built on seventeen years in production.

Graphline Systems is a software and infrastructure firm in the SF Bay Area. We build custom software, make infrastructure reliable, and help teams put AI to work, with deep roots in biotech, agentic systems, and knowledge graphs.

Founder Brent Mills has spent seventeen years in production engineering, from early-stage startups through Wayfair’s ~4,000-engineer org. He led platform and SRE teams of up to 32 engineers at Wayfair, restored Nursa’s application uptime from 84% to 99.97%, and stood up the SRE function at IBM Resilient across HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR regulated environments.

Track record
Wayfair IBM Resilient Nursa Venture-backed biotech

Carrying production without a platform team?

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