# Blue Oak Interactive

> Senior engineering shop based in Asheville, North Carolina, founded by Andy
> Giles in July 2012. We build web applications, AI infrastructure, and Linux
> deployments for organizations that want a senior engineer holding both the
> business problem and the code, not a layer of project managers between the
> two. Drupal, modern JavaScript, AI consulting, and Linux administration.

Engagements run multi-year. Clients include biblicaltraining.org (12 years),
Ankom Technology (10 years), and Education Partners International (8 years).
Sister practice: Dripyard, premium Drupal themes (co-founded 2025 with
Drupal core maintainer Mike Herchel).

## Services

- [Drupal Development](https://blueoakinteractive.com/services/drupal-development.html): Drupal Commerce modules (40+ contrib projects on Drupal.org), complex Drupal applications, AI integration via the Drupal AI module ecosystem, open source contributions and community.
- [JavaScript Development](https://blueoakinteractive.com/services/javascript-development.html): Cloudflare Workers and platform (Workers AI, D1, R2, Containers), Next.js for headless CMS frontends, React for SPAs and embedded widgets, Vue.js for partially decoupled apps, Hono.js for edge APIs.
- [AI Consulting and Development](https://blueoakinteractive.com/services/ai-consulting.html): Local AI infrastructure (Hugging Face open-weight models on your hardware behind your VPN), agentic development with modern coding harnesses, AWS Bedrock cloud AI with reproducible IaC, AI audits and safety guardrails for governed deployments (HIPAA, FERPA, GDPR, SOC 2).
- [Linux Administration and Cloud Infrastructure](https://blueoakinteractive.com/services/linux-administration.html): Multi-AZ deployments on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure (web, database, in-memory cache, search). Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure as code. Docker since the beginning, with images published at hub.docker.com/u/blueoakinteractive. Security-first deployments with HashiCorp Vault, key rotation, VPN-isolated networks, and traffic segmentation.

## Articles

- [Articles](https://blueoakinteractive.com/articles.html): Technical case studies and field notes from Blue Oak Interactive client engagements covering Drupal architecture, AWS infrastructure, AI consulting, and cloud platform engineering.
- [Running Enterprise AI On-Prem: Our Self-Hosted Inference Stack](https://blueoakinteractive.com/articles/on-prem-ai-stack.html): How Blue Oak Interactive built a self-hosted AI inference cluster that runs open-weight models (Qwen 3.6 27B Dense) on two NVIDIA GPUs, serving a unified OpenAI-compatible endpoint with zero data egress. Covers hardware selection, load balancing, model management dashboard, and integration with tools like Claude Code and Hermes Agent. Published May 2026 by Andy Giles.
- [Building a Fault-Tolerant, Multi-Tenant Platform on AWS](https://blueoakinteractive.com/articles/infrastructure-case-study-aws.html): How Blue Oak Interactive engineered a self-healing, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure for Educational Partners International using Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad—running without incident since July 2020. Covers multi-AZ architecture, application isolation, zero-downtime deployments, and five years of production operation. Published May 2026.

## About

- [About Blue Oak Interactive](https://blueoakinteractive.com/about.html): Company history, founder bio (Andy Giles / andyg5000 on Drupal.org, sixteen years on Drupal.org, Silver Drupal Certified Partner), open-source contributions, and the long-term partnerships that define the engagement model.

## Contact

- [Start a project](https://blueoakinteractive.com/contact.html): Project inquiries reach a senior engineer (not a sales pipeline) and get a response within one business day.

## Optional

- [Drupal.org organization page](https://www.drupal.org/blue-oak-interactive)
- [Andy Giles on Drupal.org](https://www.drupal.org/u/andyg5000)
- [Docker Hub: blueoakinteractive](https://hub.docker.com/u/blueoakinteractive)
- [Docker Hub: andyg5000](https://hub.docker.com/u/andyg5000)
- [Sister practice — Dripyard](https://dripyard.com)