A studio of system-builders.
We hire deliberately and slowly. The people listed below are who you will actually work with.
Maren A. Soto
Principal Engineer & Founder
Built distributed systems at telecoms, banks and labs since 1996. Believes calm engineering is the most underrated skill in the industry.
Idris N. Karam
Head of Research
Applied AI researcher. Previously at a national lab. Publishes only when the result deserves it.
Yuki Hara
Head of Design
Identity and product designer. Worked on three brands you have likely interacted with this month.
Olu Akande
Head of Operations
Runs the studio quietly. Twenty years moving complex teams across timezones without drama.
Slow hiring. Long horizons.
We work in small teams. We document everything. We protect deep work and we expect taste. We pay senior rates because we hire seniors — at every level.
Distributed by default
Async first. Meetings are scarce and short.
Research time
Every engineer has reading and exploration hours each week.
Work that matters
We choose engagements carefully. Boredom is a signal we ignored.
We are not hiring widely right now.
We are always interested in senior systems engineers, AI researchers, and product designers who can reason about the whole stack. If that sounds like you, write directly.