Meet the team

Senior engineers,
no juniors hidden offshore.

Six people, six cities, one phone-call away. 100% senior IC, four-day work weeks, remote-first.

9 yr avg. tenure
6 cities
100% senior IC
4-day work weeks
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Aarav Patel

Founder · Engineering
San Francisco

Ex-Stripe, 14 years shipping AI products people use daily. Founded 1° Solutions in 2022 after running Stripe's applied ML team. Believes most AI products fail because they skip the eval suite.

Applied AIEval-driven devProduction LLMsFounder coaching
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Hina Suzuki

Lead · Mobile
Bengaluru

4.9★ apps in health, finance and creative tools. Shipped on iOS since iOS 5, Android since Gingerbread. The PaceFit App Store rating is hers to brag about.

React NativeSwift / KotlinOffline-firstPerformance tuning
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Marco Rossi

Lead · ML
Berlin

PhD in computer vision, now mostly evals and deployment. Spent 6 years at a European auto OEM shipping ML to the edge before joining the studio. Will not let a model into production without drift monitoring.

PyTorch / JAXMLOpsDrift monitoringEdge inference
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Lena Petrov

Lead · Conversational
Lisbon

Voice + chat UX since the first Alexa skill kit shipped. Built 30+ Alexa skills, 12 of which are still in the Skills Store top 100 for their category. Believes voice UX is 80% writing, 20% engineering.

Alexa SDKVoice UXConversational designRAG chatbots
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Diego Morales

Design
Mexico City

Brand systems and product design for senior teams. Has shipped design systems used by 50M+ users at a previous SaaS unicorn. Believes design without engineering constraints is decoration, not design.

Brand systemsProduct designDesign tokensMotion
YW

Yuki Watanabe

Strategy & Operations
Tokyo

Keeps every engagement on time and on budget. Former engagement lead at a Big-4 consultancy who got tired of slides and joined the studio in 2023. Owns the engagement model and the change-order discipline.

Engagement scopingRisk managementClient commsVendor coordination

Hiring quietly. Two people a year.

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