Firstlight Labs is an independent software studio. We build our own iOS apps and help teams ship data platforms, cloud infrastructure and multi‑tenant SaaS.
We ship products of our own and take on a small number of engineering engagements. The same engineer, tools and standards go into both.
01 · Products
Native iPhone apps, designed, built and operated in‑house, from camera pipelines to subscriptions.
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02 · Services
Senior engineering for data platforms, AWS infrastructure and SaaS products, as a scoped build or embedded in your team.
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Photo & Video Editor · iPhone
A complete photo, video and collage editor with a built‑in pro camera, made for creators who want natural colour, real creative control and a faster way to finish every edit.
Services
More than eight years across fintech, data engineering, AWS infrastructure and multi‑tenant SaaS.
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Pipelines, warehouses and data models that stay correct at scale. Batch and streaming, tested and observable.
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APIs, files, events and databases brought into reliable datasets, with schema evolution, backfills and idempotent loads.
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Secure, cost‑aware and reproducible cloud architecture: networking, IAM and infrastructure as code.
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Tenant isolation, billing, roles and permissions, so one codebase serves every customer safely.
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Ledgers, reconciliation and reporting where correctness is non‑negotiable, with audit trails built in.
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Native Swift and SwiftUI apps, from camera and media pipelines to StoreKit subscriptions and launch.
Experience
Who you work with
Firstlight Labs is led by Vinicios Barretos, a software engineer with more than eight years across fintech, data engineering, AWS infrastructure and multi‑tenant SaaS. The engineer you talk to is the engineer who designs, builds and ships your project.
Contact
Tell us about your product, your data or your app idea. You’ll hear back from the engineer who would do the work.