Company

Veteran engineers building the grid for compute

We build the systems that place and run workloads across Kinesis-managed, partner, and customer hardware. Based in Seattle, with a presence in California and Türkiye.

Core Team

CEO/CTO · Seattle

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.

COO · Seattle

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.

CGO · Pebble Beach

Dan Neault

Ex-AWS General Manager who drove adoption of AWS database, analytics, and AI/ML platforms. Senior leadership at Imperva, Samsung, NetApp, and Microsoft building cloud platforms at scale. Leads global GTM, partnerships, and revenue growth.

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.

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.

Why This Team

A century of distributed-systems experience

Our team brings more than a hundred years of combined experience at AWS, Microsoft, IBM, and Meta. That work in distributed systems and decentralized networks informs how we build Kinesis.

Connect different providers and hardware through one service.

Coordinate placement, scaling, cost, and recovery across the fleet.

Use operational history to improve placement and recovery.

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