Dana Okafor
Co-founder & CEO
Former network architect. Spent a decade keeping payment rails online before deciding to fix the root cause.
Our story
Infrastructure built by the people who carry the pager
We started Stratus in 2016 after one too many outages we couldn't explain. The idea was simple: run infrastructure the way operators actually want it run — transparent, automated, and answerable.
What we believe
Most infrastructure failures aren't exotic. They're a missed renewal, a config that drifted, a change nobody reviewed. We built Stratus to make the boring things impossible to get wrong, so the interesting work gets your attention instead.
That means every change is reviewable, every dependency is monitored, and every customer talks to an engineer — not a ticket queue that forwards to one eventually.
How we operate
- Engineers on call own the systems they build
- Post-incident reviews are blameless and published to customers
- We don't oversubscribe capacity, and we tell you our ratios
- Security reviews happen on every release, not once a year
Leadership
A small team that's been on both sides of the outage
Priya Raman
Co-founder & CTO
SRE lead turned platform builder. Believes the best alert is the one that never has to fire.
Marcus Hale
VP of Engineering
Built the change-review system that became the core of how Stratus ships everything.
We're hiring engineers who like fixing the cause, not the symptom
If pager-driven development is your idea of a bad time too, come build the alternative with us.