About OceanDisc
OceanDisc LLC is a software engineering firm founded in 2013 and led by John Lyons and Kevin Ross. They work with senior engineers and specialists the firm has built systems with for years, and the team is sized to each program. Our record is on the work page.
How we work
Clients hire us directly to take on full engagements, discovery through years of ongoing support, and we also work as the engineering team inside larger programs, building and operating systems for the prime or delivery firm running them. Some of our client relationships are more than a decade old.
Within any engagement we can handle the full lifecycle: design, build, data migration, integration, and the years of iterative development that follow launch. We design access control and audit logging in from the first release. Programs change as they go, so we stay close to the people who use what we build. AI is part of that work now, mainly in data processing and decision support.
Sectors
- Defense knowledge management
- Federal acquisition systems
- Public lands & recreation data
- Grants & program management
- Monitoring, evaluation & learning
- Education & scholarship management
- Health program management
- Humanitarian response
Leadership

John Lyons
Managing Director
John co-founded OceanDisc and oversees operations and program delivery. He has spent more than 20 years delivering data platforms for government, defense, and international development clients. His specialty is monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), and in particular building a program's reporting framework into the software it runs on.

Kevin Ross
Technical Director
Kevin co-founded OceanDisc and leads its engineering. He has been lead engineer and product owner on knowledge-management and monitoring platforms for U.S. federal, allied-government, and international clients. He still works across the stack, from cloud infrastructure and databases to APIs and frontends, and leads the development teams behind those platforms.
Technical expertise
Some of the technologies we use to build secure, maintainable systems for our clients.
Company data
- Legal name
- OceanDisc LLC
- Founded
- 2013
- Unique Entity ID (UEI)
- QQPMBWZYGJK1
- CAGE code
- 7FBT5
- Business size
- Small business
OceanDisc LLC is registered in SAM.gov.
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