About MasterTech
We build software the way it should be built.
A Full-service Software and AI engineering Firm. We design and ship intelligent systems for ambitious teams worldwide.
Our mission
Make AI a tool — not a gamble.
When we started MasterTech, "AI strategy" decks were everywhere. Working systems were not. We took a different bet: hire only engineers who'd shipped real products, and bring them to teams who needed software that worked on Monday morning — not slideware for the next board meeting.
Seven years and 180+ projects later, we still believe the same thing. The best software is the kind that quietly compounds. So we build for compounding.
Operating principles
Six things we won't compromise on.
Senior only.
Every engineer on your project has shipped to millions. We don't bench-warm juniors on client work.
Outcomes over hours.
We bill against milestones, not timesheets. If we can ship faster, you pay less.
Own the boring parts.
Observability, security, docs, on-call runbooks. We leave systems your team can actually operate.
AI with evidence.
Every model in production has an eval harness behind it. If we can't measure it, we don't ship it.
Write the post-mortem.
Things break. We document them clearly, fix the root cause, and share what we learned.
Hand off cleanly.
Your team learns the codebase as we build it. No knowledge silos, no consultant lock-in.
Leadership
The people you'll actually work with.
MasterTech is partner-led. The senior engineers below are in every client review and write code on every project — including yours.
Priya Anand
Co-founder & CEO
Former Stripe staff engineer. Built the payments platform that processes $30B/yr.
David Okafor
Co-founder & CTO
Ex-DeepMind researcher. Led the team that shipped the first production RAG eval framework.
Lina Park
Head of AI
PhD MIT, ex-Google Brain. Co-authored 12 papers on alignment and fine-tuning methods.
Marcus Reyes
Head of Platform
Built the infra that runs three unicorns. Owns reliability across every MasterTech engagement.
2019
Founded in Seattle
42
Engineers across 11 timezones
180+
Systems shipped to production
97%
Client retention past year one