About Redleg.dev
About RedLeg Dev
Veteran-owned software studio in Central Florida. One senior engineer. No agency layers. Tampa, Orlando, Lakeland — and remote everywhere else.
Built by a veteran, run by an engineer
I'm Matt Wagner. I build software for small and medium-sized businesses — usually the tool that's currently being held together by a spreadsheet and someone's overtime. Fifteen years of SaaS work behind it. AI in the toolkit when it earns its place, not as a headline.
I've shipped in banking, automotive, payroll, healthcare, education, and credit unions. Most of those projects had one person on the engineering side: me. That's by design — fewer hand-offs, faster decisions, code your next hire can actually read.
If I'm not the right fit for what you're building, I'll tell you. Sometimes the right answer is buying SaaS off the shelf. That's fine.
More background, resume, and project proof: mattgwagner.com/resume · projects.
Speaking & Consulting Experience
I've spoken at several software development conferences, and I run webinars and on-site workshops on a wide variety of development practices.
Most recently: “Who Read This Code?” at the Polk County Security Summit in October 2026, on how AI-built software ships today and what to require before yours does. See the slides
I pick technology that will still be supported in five years. New stack when it earns its place, boring stack when it doesn't. Your next hire shouldn't have to read a research paper to ship a feature.
Most of my projects started with a spreadsheet held together by overtime. The job is to replace it with software your team can actually run — and your next hire can actually read.
I build infrastructure, not just apps
Log Cannon
An open-source, self-hosted log aggregation platform — a drop-in alternative to Seq for Serilog, with webhook and OpenTelemetry ingestion. In production it handles 5+ million events per day from various platforms, accepting logs at the Cloudflare edge and buffering them through a queue into ClickHouse so nothing is dropped during outages.
Why "RedLeg Dev"?
Red Leg Dev is named in homage to my many years of service with the U.S. Army's Field Artillery, commonly known as "Redlegs". The term dates back to the Civil War and the Field Artillery branches color and common uniform markings.
Read more about the historyMy Clients
Services
- Custom Development
- Software Consulting
- Implementation & Integration
- MVP Development