Company

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 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.

Why This Team

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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