About us

Sina Sadeghian 

Partner & CEO

Sina is a visionary leader with extensive experience in leading web and mobile development teams. He co-founded ApplyBoard, a unicorn startup that revolutionized the international education sector, and has also worked as a software engineer at IBM. Sina has helped many startups and SMBs achieve their technological goals. His visionary outlook and unwavering commitment to driving technological advancements add depth to our team and ignite our vision with passion.

Alireza Sharifi

Partner

Alireza's journey spans software engineering, machine learning, and security. Holding a PhD in software engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification, Alireza is passionate about using tech solutions to tackle real-world industry challenges. He has helped numerous startups and SMBs achieve their technological goals. His consulting experience and compliance expertise add a vital layer to our services, ensuring robust and innovative solutions.

Claire Ruan

Sales Operations Manager

Claire Ruan brings her expertise and dynamic energy to our team with a master’s degree in Business Analytics. Outside of work, she is an avid fitness enthusiast, practicing yoga and exploring the great outdoors. A dedicated bookworm, Claire loves trying new activities and is a talented cook. 

Arpan Paul Darivemula

Fractional CTO  

Arpan is an accomplished software architect with 15 years of experience. He has a proven record of rapidly developing production level software. He’s worked on a wide variety of projects dealing with web, apps, streaming and voip. He has a passion for finding the best solution for clients within their budget. He holds a masters in computer science from Louisiana Tech University in the US.

Suthaharan Tharmalingam

Fractional CTO  

Sutha has over 15+ years of managerial and leadership success in software, cloud and technology operations working with small and large organizations. He is fascinated by tales of individuals with small ideas having a huge impact on the society and has always dreamt of being the part of such an endeavor himself. Sutha has an eye towards innovation and has built talented teams to create and deploy cutting edge technologies, streamline processes, increase productivity, scale solutions and to build revenue streams. Sutha holds a Masters in Computer Applications from University of Madras, India and has a keen interest in how technology can be used to improve social well-being in the way we live, work and communicate.

Angelo Berios

Fractional CTO

Angelo is a seasoned technical leader with over 20 years experience building software and leading engineering teams. Having focused much of his career on helping early stage startups progress from conception to acquisition, he understands the importance of testing a startup's hypotheses early and utilizing real-world data to feed into future iterations of a product. He has helped build startups such as Zoocasa, BluTrumpet, and Kinetic Commerce, within a wide range of verticals including real estate, events/social, commerce, media, education, finance, and ad networks.

Glenn Korban

Fractional CTO   

Glenn is a technical executive with over 20 years leading teams and driving technology projects - primarily in web development and content management. Most recently, Glenn has been the co-founder and CTO of FlashVote, which reinvents community input to give local governments scientific community input 90% faster and 90% cheaper. His career experience includes both enterprise and startup environments spanning a variety of verticals including local government, energy, digital advertising, counter-intelligence, and others. He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and is a former officer of the US Air Force. Glenn enjoys doing judo and is learning to play the ukulele.

Sonal Bagga

Fractional CTO

Sonal has 20 years of experience in product and engineering with building products at companies like Motorola, Goldman Sachs, Jet.com, BCG. She has a Masters in Software Engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University and has acquired a variety of experience and skillsets during her career: She has lead platform and software dev teams in cloud and web based technologies and continues to keep hands-on software engineering experience in some of them. Her expertise in team building, technical debt resolutions/management, lean startup methodologies, cross-functional team and business interactions, compliance and risk mitigation has also put her in charge of building various ventures from the 0-1 stage in the fin-tech, health-tech, ecommerce and energy sectors. She has built and launched her own fin-tech company Namma.co which is in early Product Market Fit stage.

Mehdi Karimi

Fractional CTO

Mehdi, a Ph.D. graduate from UBC, is an award-winning scientist in cybersecurity with an illustrious career spanning over 15 years in the high-tech industry. His core expertise revolves around SaaS, AI, analytics, IoT, and web applications. Throughout his career, Mehdi has demonstrated an unparalleled knack for innovating automation platforms and managing large engineering firms. His strategic approach towards budgeting, risk assessment, policy implementation, and governance has made a significant mark in the industry. A proud holder of 2 patents in application security, Mehdi's groundbreaking work can be found in multiple publications within prestigious IEEE and ACM societies. His collaborations with global giants such as Intel, GE, and Sophos have been nothing short of remarkable, turning top-tier proposals into successful commercial products. Currently, Mehdi is intensely focused on driving compliance solutions, including SOC2, ISO27001, and FedRAMP, serving as a fractional CTO in the SME market. With his deep understanding of the industry and a proven track record, Mehdi stands as a go-to expert for meeting sophisticated cybersecurity and compliance needs.

Teren Teh

Fractional CTO

Teren is an experienced CTO/CIO with a demonstrated track record of building tech teams within both startup and enterprise environments. He was previously a co-founder of an AI monitoring software startup as well as a VP of analytics at a global bank. Teren has 11 years of experience in software development, data architecture and commercial strategy. His favourite engagement was building a new commercial insights business based on payments data within an enterprise environment.

Ken Ono

Fractional CTO

Ken has been coding for over 40 years and still loves it. For the last 6 years he has been f/CTO’ing for healthcare start ups, a crypto-currency exchange, an e-commerce/video streaming product and many others. Past full time roles include CTO at Angoss software (AI), VP Analytics & Innovation at NexJ Systems (enterprise CRM & Healthcare), CTO at Myant (smart textiles/wearables). His current passion project is building a no-code platform for healthcare providers to communicate with offsite patients!

Eric di Domenic

Fractional CTO

Eric is a passionate software craftsman, mentor and entrepreneur. For over two decades he has helped organizations build scalable and maintainable software, mentor agile teams on clean coding methodologies, test-driven development and accelerated lean software development practices. He has a strong technical aptitude with excellent organizational, communication and team leadership skills.