ShiftCTRL designs, installs, troubleshoots, documents, and supports UniFi networks for commercial, nonprofit, education, residential, and multi-site environments. Clients work directly with the engineers responsible for the design, installation, risk decisions, and final handover.
ShiftCTRL was founded in New York in 2021 — with a quarter-century of network and software practice already underneath it. We’re a small team of senior engineers: network engineers, software engineers, field installers. No account managers between the client and the people doing the work.
The mix matters. We think in systems, not just devices. We’ve designed and installed UniFi networks across schools, non-profits, manufacturing floors, finance offices, and homes. We’ve built design-automation pipelines for global manufacturers. We’ve built financial platforms, regulatory reporting systems, and distributed risk-evaluation tools for asset managers — work that doesn’t go live until the team running it can operate it without us.
That discipline travels into the racks, floor plans, and VLAN maps we deliver. We hold a seat on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s national networking team, where we plan, coordinate, and implement their nationwide UniFi deployment — and we do the work ourselves, no layer between you and the engineer who built it. When we finish, your team has the map: what’s installed, how it’s wired, and what changed.
Most engagements live here: UniFi networks, WiFi planning, structured cabling, IDF/MDF builds, security cameras, access control, diagnostics, and ongoing operations. We design and install the network, then hand it back so your team knows what was installed, how it’s connected, and who can safely touch it next.
When the tool we need to do the network job right doesn’t exist, we build it. Over the years that has meant parametric design pipelines for global manufacturers, financial platforms and compliance systems for asset managers, and now Foresight — the network-planning tool we built to plan our UniFi work in.
How we scope, change, document, and hand off work — written down so you can hold us to it. Scroll through a job the way we run one.
Nothing that can disrupt a live system moves before you sign off on it. Reboots, factory resets, firmware swaps, IPS changes, schema migrations — the scope of what we’ll touch is defined and agreed before we touch it.
The design is what we build from — not a slide deck. Floor plan, bill of materials, topology, VLAN map, and cable schedule live in one place that travels with the project. When a question comes up on-site, the answer is in the design, not in someone’s inbox.
We don’t design systems we couldn’t maintain. One senior team runs the install. If the only way the system stays alive is the engineer who built it, the system is broken — so documentation, runbooks, and as-built drawings are part of the build, not an afterthought.
When we leave, your team knows what changed. A completion record comes out when the work is done; the heavier set — as-built, runbook, cable schedule — comes with the larger scopes. Nobody has to guess what we touched or who can safely touch it next.
Some of the organizations our team has delivered projects for.
The floor plan you’re building from. The system that works but nobody can explain. The one nobody else has been able to fix. We’ll tell you what we can solve, what should stay local, and what isn’t a fit.
