Team
The team members who make the whole thing work.
Our Talent Pool
Team Members
Andrew Porter
Founder
Device & IoT, Platform Services, AI Operations
Erik Sjoholm
Co-Founder
Applied AI, Search, Distributed Systems
Andrew
Andrew hails from California, growing up and getting a world class education just a few minutes south of Silicon Valley. His early interests are still what he enjoys pursuing most - finding out what makes things tick and then strapping a bunch of cool stuff on top. Between several years at a prototype engineering shop and then stints in insurance billing and Big Tech, Andrew has spent time soldering resistors to PCBs, plugging in custom backend services, gluing the whole thing together in a React application and then running it in just about any cloud data center on earth. A strong ability to understand business process and perform requirements analysis round out his toolset for approaching new or existing projects of any scale and immediately delivering value.
Erik
Erik brings production-proven judgment to Applied AI, search, and distributed systems — the kind earned shipping platforms to millions of users, fixing reliability at scale, and designing clustered systems with explicit tradeoffs. A thousand-jobs engineer and servant leader, he pairs deep technical problem-solving with the structural tools teams need: design sessions, retrospectives, ADRs, and consensus models that keep decisions reversible when they still can be. He fits advisory, architecture, and forward deployed engagements equally well: recommend, document, then prove it where the work actually lives.
