ABOUT / PROJECT 407ENGINEER + OPERATOR

Built from both sides of the business.

Professional software experience meets the firsthand reality of winning customers, managing work, and growing an operating business.

THE ORIGIN

Technology with an operator’s point of view.

Project 407 is the independent software studio of Kevin Whelan, a senior full-stack engineer and owner of 407 Haul Away, a local service business serving Northern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.

Kevin’s background spans Laravel, PHP, Vue, React, TypeScript, APIs, integrations, AWS, and production software delivery. Running a business made the other half of the work impossible to ignore: customers need confidence, teams need clarity, and owners need systems that save time instead of creating more work.

Project 407 brings those two perspectives together. Clients get the breadth and polish of a studio while working directly with the person responsible for the thinking, design, and build.

Editorial illustration of Kevin Whelan building software in the Project 407 workspace

PROFESSIONAL TRACK RECORD

“Kevin quickly established himself as a dependable and thoughtful engineer who consistently delivered meaningful results. He contributed to platform initiatives that helped drive roughly a 20% reduction in OpEx, working across teams to improve how our services were built, deployed, and maintained.”

MICHAEL MEYER III
Former Engineering Manager, Trader Interactive

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TWO PERSPECTIVES / ONE STANDARD

01 / ENGINEER

Build it properly.

Performance, reliability, maintainability, and careful technical decisions.

02 / OWNER

Make it useful.

Clear priorities, practical tradeoffs, and respect for the realities of daily operations.

03 / PARTNER

Stay accountable.

Direct communication from the first question through launch and beyond.

WORKING PRINCIPLES

No theater. No mystery. Just considered work.

01Solve the right problem
The brief begins with the business result, not a predetermined deliverable.
02Make complexity feel simple
The hard work happens behind the experience so customers and teams get clarity.
03Tell the truth
Real examples stay real. Product concepts are labeled. Recommendations are grounded in what we can deliver.
04Finish the details
Responsiveness, accessibility, performance, and the small interactions all matter.

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