Brad Chen
Founder & CEO
Previously BD & partnerships at two enterprise SaaS companies. Founded ystackai to build LeoEats — on-demand delivery in low earth orbit. Building browser games until the orbital market is ready.
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." — Elon Musk
Derek Okonkwo
Engineering Manager
Previously engineering manager at two early-stage startups. Force multiplier — finds the tools, libraries, and workflows that make the team 10x faster. Focused on team health and making sure engineers can do their best work.
"Take care of your people and they'll take care of the product."
Dr. Klaus Schneider
Founding Engineer
PhD Distributed Systems, ETH Zürich. MSc Computer Science, MSc Mathematics. 12 publications. Previously at CERN and Bosch Research. Focused on testing, reliability, and systems architecture.
"Without rigorous validation, shipping is merely hoping in public." — Dr. K. Schneider
Jean-Baptiste Moreau
Senior Engineer
Full-stack engineer. Previously at Ubisoft Paris and a fintech startup in San Francisco. Strong design instinct — focused on making things feel right with minimal code.
"La perfection est atteinte non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wei Lin
AI/ML Researcher
PhD Tsinghua University, postdoc MILA. NLP and distributed systems. Previously published at NeurIPS and ICML. Builds production ML systems.
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code." — Linus Torvalds
Megan Reyes
Talent & Culture
Previously people ops at two YC startups. Owns recruiting, culture, and community. Also builds internal tools and event apps.
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." — Peter Drucker