About
DevStacks is Shane Taylor's company. He runs requirements, design, build, and delivery on every engagement — the same person from first call to handoff.
The pattern
Across different industries and different decades, Shane has tended to end up in the same role: the person who figures out what a business actually needs and builds it.
At a real estate investment office, he built the operational infrastructure around the deals. Contact database. Marketing list generation — pulling public data and matching it against paid sources to build targeted outreach lists the business hadn't been able to create before. Telephone scripts for after-hours answering services. Inbound call qualification so sales managers only spent time on prospects who'd already been screened. In-house print production for marketing materials. He worked closely with the owners, the attorney's office, the title company, and the on-site staff. The office ran tight while he was there.
Shane came into that with his own direct creative real estate experience — he'd owned, wholesaled, and rehabbed properties himself. So he understood the deals, not just the systems around them.
At Eight Line Supply — a family of three companies (restaurant gaming devices, garden supply/hydroponics, and a gas trailer operation) — he was IT director, developer, and business operations lead all at once. Whatever the business needed from technology, he handled it.
He replaced expensive legacy phones with VoIP, configured call routing, cut costs significantly. Built RAID arrays and backup servers. Set up a proxy server with caching that sped up internet for the entire building. Found a way to do bulk color printing at about a tenth of the previous per-page cost, which made thousands of pages of in-house marketing material production viable for the first time.
On the commerce side: the retail store's products were getting undercut online, and discounting retail prices would have confused in-store customers. Shane created a separate brand to sell the same products at competitive prices through a different online channel. Online sales took off, retail pricing stayed intact, and no customer flagged the price discrepancy.
He migrated e-commerce platforms from Miva Merchant to Magento 2. Built new storefronts. Interfaced with Chinese suppliers for branded imports. Built an automated PDF system where one template change regenerated hundreds of customized marketing documents for reseller clients. Made hiring and firing recommendations. Every decision was evaluated on cost and output.
At a Community Action Program nonprofit, he was the sole developer for about seven years. Built the initial system in roughly two to two and a half years. Added a full case management layer in about six months. Then rebuilt the whole thing in a modern stack. Three distinct builds. The system was substantially correct after the first one — most of the remaining years were maintenance, grant reporting adjustments, and adapting to changing requirements.
He maintained the legacy system in full production while building its replacement. Zero downtime. He did all requirements work through direct conversations with staff and management. Trained every user. When an external vendor the organization hired took six months to deliver and billed for twelve, Shane built a better version in the remaining six months at no additional cost. That system is now CAP RMS, rebuilt with Claude Code and available as a SaaS product.
At a restaurant he co-runs, he built a custom POS system from scratch because nothing off-the-shelf was good enough. Then built an AI agent for internal staff operations — async message coordination, inventory workflows, scheduled reminders. That agent is running now.
How he works now
Shane uses AI agents — primarily Claude Code — to handle the programming. His own work is product management: requirements, architecture, specs, and the tests that verify the agent built the right thing.
The split lets requirements get sustained attention instead of competing with implementation. The spec has to be precise — the agent doesn't improvise — and the tests have to be deliberate, since the agent won't catch a bad requirement on its own.
One person handling requirements and directing agents covers the same ground a small team did a few years ago. That shows up in what a project costs, and it's a large part of why custom software is now practical for smaller operations.
The logistics
US-based. Available for remote engagements and in-person when a project calls for it.
Engagements start with documented requirements. Delivery happens in milestones. Every stage gets documented and reviewed before the next one starts. Loom walkthroughs when something is easier to show than describe. Project-based pricing.
If something on this site matches a problem you're dealing with, the chatbot can tell you pretty quickly whether it's a fit. Or go straight to the contact page and let the agent put you in touch.