Veteran engineers building the Grid for compute

Kinesis Network is building the orchestration, pricing, and placement service that lets workloads run on the best available infrastructure: Kinesis-managed, partner, or customer-owned. Headquartered in Seattle, with a presence in Türkiye.

Core Team

Co-founder · CEO/CTO

Baris Saydag

Ex-Microsoft & Meta engineer with deep expertise in networking, cybersecurity, and distributed systems. Co-founded C0D3R, the world's largest decentralized RPC network (50K nodes, 10B relays/day). Leads Kinesis architecture and long-term vision.

Co-founder · COO

Hamza Ak

Ex-Microsoft & Amazon engineer specializing in distributed systems and large-scale optimization. Co-founder of C0D3R. At AWS, built a platform used by 2M DAU to maximize customer value across the AWS ecosystem. Scaling Kinesis operations globally.

Co-founder · Chief Engineer

Toshihito Kikuchi

Ex-Microsoft and Mozilla engineer with 15+ years of experience building large-scale platforms, security systems, browsers, and cloud infrastructure. Leads Kinesis engineering with a focus on reliability, performance, and developer experience.

Co-founder · Head of UX

David Ding

Ex-Asana & Meta tech lead specializing in enterprise-grade UX and full-stack systems. Shipped products used by millions and led engineering teams at scale. Owns the Kinesis customer platform and developer experience end-to-end.

Chief Commercial Officer

Derik Strattan

Ex-Oracle Cloud & Expedia Group program leader. At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, built software for the Stargate AI infrastructure program; at Expedia, led a global 30+ member core-platform team across seven time zones. Leads Kinesis go-to-market, partnerships, and revenue growth.

A century of distributed-systems experience

This is not a first-time pass at the problem. The Kinesis team collectively brings more than a hundred years of experience building and operating distributed systems at AWS, Microsoft, IBM, and Meta, including the predecessor work that informed our approach to decentralized compute coordination. Multi-year head start on an objectively hard problem.

Kinesis unifies fragmented compute across cloud, on-premises, edge, and customer-controlled environments into one orchestrated service.

The platform continuously makes placement, scaling, pricing, and failure-handling decisions across a heterogeneous global supply graph.

Every workload that runs improves the next one's placement, utilization, failure handling, and pricing through higher-signal operational data.

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