Designed and built in Silicon Valley
The stretch of the Valley where the modern network was designed. This team spent their careers on it.
The people behind Maya built the forwarding planes, switches, load balancers, and security features that run today's networks, at the companies strung along Highway 237. Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, and the generation before them. Maya carries that lineage into the agent era.
Between them, the team has spent decades across the companies that built modern networking and security. Cisco, Juniper, and Brocade in networking, FireEye, SentinelOne, Elastic, and Anomali in security, IBM and Oracle in cloud, and PayPal, Western Union, and Rakuten in product. Along the way they authored internet standards, were granted patents in networking and switch architecture, and shipped and took to market the security products enterprises run today.
Maya is what happens when that group turns to a new problem. Datapath engineering, control-plane security, security product and go-to-market, cloud architecture, and product, brought together and pointed at the identity of the agent. Designed and built in Silicon Valley, for the agent-native network.
// the people behind maya
Founder & CEO
datapath · identity
Networking datapath architect with nearly three decades building forwarding planes, deep packet inspection, QoS, and control-plane security at Cisco, Juniper, and Brocade, and cloud infrastructure at IBM and Oracle. He built Maya's eBPF datapath and agent-identity model. Nine US patents. M.S. Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University.
Co-founder & CTO
security · product
Founding engineer of Cisco's network infrastructure security group, where he worked on Control Plane Policing and deep packet inspection, then product and go-to-market leader at SentinelOne, Cyberinc (acquired by Forcepoint), Elastic Security, and Anomali. Published IETF RFC author. MBA, UC Berkeley Haas.
Chief Business Officer
business · gtm
Ex-Cisco security and technical-marketing engineer with two decades of enterprise and government business development across 28 countries, plus international-business leadership in AI. He owns Maya's partnerships, go-to-market, and customer relationships. Harvard. Cisco CCNA. Harvard Club of Silicon Valley, Board Member, VP of Communications.
Chief Information Officer
web · saas · it
Web and SaaS builder with more than 25 years shipping web applications and products. Founder of the Epiphanet agency and the Trademark Leads SaaS product. He owns Maya's web, SaaS, marketplace, and IT. Stanford Startup Engineering, with honors.
Product Content & Developer Outreach
demos · content · devrel
Engineering-native product leader with roles across PayPal, Western Union, and Rakuten, plus AI startups. He runs Maya's demos, technical content, and developer outreach. B.S. Stanford. M.S. Computer Science, UC Riverside.
Chief Counsel
legal · corporate
Chief counsel to Mayagentic and a partner at K&L Gates across Los Angeles and Tokyo, with more than two decades as a partner and shareholder at leading international firms, previously Perkins Coie and Greenberg Traurig. J.D., University of San Diego School of Law.