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The people behind the work
We staff small, senior-only teams with no pyramid and no offshore handoffs. You will see these same faces every week, from discovery to production. 96 team members across 11 cities. Average tenure 5.4 years. 22 PhDs.
96Team membersAcross 11 global cities
5.4 yrsAverage tenureSenior-heavy expertise
22PhDs on staffDeep research background
2018FoundedProven track record
Our Team
SMALL TEAMS.
SENIOR PEOPLE.
NO HANDOFFS.
Founders and C-Suite
LEADERSHIP
JR
Jordan Reyes
Co-founder and CEO
Ex-McKinsey QuantumBlack. Led AI transformation programs at three Fortune 100s before starting alien.fi.
Strategy
Operating
AK
Anya Kowalski
Co-founder and CTO
Former staff ML engineer at Meta. Architected the recommendation stack for 14M MAU. PhD, Stanford.
ML Infra
Research
MO
Marcus Okafor
Chief Operating Officer
Built the delivery organization from 12 to 96. Previously COO of a Series D fintech.
Delivery
Ops
PS
Priya Suresh
Chief AI Officer
Wrote the EU AI Act compliance playbook adopted by four major banks. Frequent regulator advisor.
Governance
Policy
Vertical experts
PRACTICE LEADS
Each vertical has a senior practice lead with 8+ years in industry.
DK
Dr. Daniel Kim
Head of Healthcare
Boarded internist + ML PhD. Led NorthBay Health rollout to 1,800 clinicians.
Healthcare
Clinical AI
EH
Elena Hadid
Head of Financial Services
Former head of model risk at a top-10 bank. SR 11-7 in her sleep.
Finance
Risk
TN
Theresa Nakamura
Head of Legal and Compliance
Former AmLaw 100 GC. Now leads the legal AI vertical.
Legal
Privilege
RC
Ramon Castillo
Head of Industrial AI
20-year manufacturing veteran. Walked plants for the first, wrote optimizers for the second.
Manufacturing
Logistics
AM
Aisha Mensah
Head of Public Sector
Former White House OSTP fellow. Led the Civica State Agency benefits-fraud rollout.
Government
Civic AI
JT
Janet Tobin
Head of Retail and Consumer
Built personalization at two Top-50 retailers before joining. Trusted by merchandisers.
Retail
Personalization
Senior technical craft
CRAFT LEADS
SP
Sebastian Palacios
Principal ML Engineer
LLMs
RAG
NV
Nora Vetrov
Principal MLOps
Infra
Eval
MC
Mei Chen
Staff Research Scientist
Vision
Multimodal
OD
Oluwaseun Davies
Staff Data Engineer
Streaming
Lakehouse
IB
Idris Bayer
Principal SRE
Reliability
Cost
LR
Lena Romanenko
Head of Design
UX
Trust
KW
Kai Watanabe
Head of Security
SOC 2
Threat
CB
Claire Brennan
Head of Talent
People
Culture
Plus 80 more across delivery, research, design, and ops
We are hiring 14 roles this quarter.
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