Techrapha
An IT firm with a big heart. TechRapha is a Virginia-based cloud, security, and AI engineering consultancy. We help agencies and organizations modernize with confidence: AI assistants that keep data inside the boundary, architecture, automation, compliance, and identity done right.
Featured · 2025–2026
Our most recent federal work is production AI: secure chat assistants, retrieval-augmented regulation guides, and workflow intelligence — built full-stack and run where the data lives, in AWS GovCloud and Google Cloud, with no calls to public AI APIs.
Secure AI assistant · AWS GovCloud
A secure AI chat assistant for a federal acquisition platform, powered by a self-hosted open-weights LLM running inside AWS GovCloud. No public AI APIs, no data egress: prompts and answers never leave the boundary. Streaming responses, per-user history persisted in PostgreSQL.
FAR regulations assistant · RAG
A Federal Acquisition Regulation assistant that answers from authoritative acquisition content using retrieval-augmented generation: ask-the-FAR chat, guided learning tracks, and a glossary, with per-user conversation persistence.
Procurement workflow · full stack
An IT procurement request tracker carrying submissions through specialist and CIO review with a full audit timeline, role-based access, SharePoint document integration, and automated email notifications.
DLA Energy · GCP · Terraform
Deployment engineering for a Defense Logistics Agency (Energy) acquisition dashboard with an embedded RAG chatbot: Terraform-defined infrastructure on Google Cloud, staged CI/CD with manual production promotion, and an Okta and CAC-ready authentication architecture.
Delivered as engineering vendor on federal acquisition platforms; client references available on request. Full past performance →
One firm, end to end: from landing zone to authority to operate, from EMR to enterprise identity.
Production AI on live federal systems: self-hosted LLMs inside AWS GovCloud, retrieval-augmented generation over agency content, secure chat platforms with persistent history, and workflow AI — designed so sensitive data never leaves the boundary.
AWS Commercial and GovCloud, Google Cloud. Multi-account landing zones, workload migration and re-platforming, disaster recovery with defined RTO and RPO objectives.
Terraform and infrastructure as code, Git-driven CI/CD, environment promotion pipelines, and blue-green releases that keep delivery fast and auditable.
RMF and ATO support including SSP, SAR, and POA&M documentation. FedRAMP Moderate alignment, NIST 800-53 control mapping, and Zero Trust readiness roadmaps.
Okta OIDC, PIV/CAC federation, Amazon Cognito, and single sign-on with least-privilege IAM designed for federal environments.
EMR implementation, HIPAA-conscious networks and hosting, modern web portals, microservices modernization, and end-to-end builds from domain to deployment.
Est. 2014
Twelve years of steady delivery
AI in production
LLM chat, RAG, and workflow AI on live federal systems
100+ AWS accounts
Operated at scale with IaC guardrails
Federal to Main Street
Agencies, municipalities, and clinics
Rapha is the Hebrew word for heal. We build technology that restores: systems that work, teams that breathe easier, and communities that get lifted along the way. From the beginning, TechRapha has paired paid engagements with free work for communities in need, and that commitment has not changed as our clients have grown from Main Street practices to federal missions.
John is a passionate and more than competent professional. Anytime I have a question relating to technology he's my go-to IT consultant. He is very quick to figure things out, knows how to get things done, and responds whenever I need him. Not only that, but John is incredibly personable and an absolute pleasure to work with.
Fr. Anthony Messeh · St. Timothy & St. Athanasius Church
See our past performanceTell us what you are trying to build, secure, or untangle. We answer quickly.