Strataforge API Works

About / A specialist studio

Make the complex understandable. Make the useful dependable.

Strataforge API Works is an engineering and advisory studio founded to make enterprise software ecosystems more understandable, governable, and useful to the people who build on them.

Our mission

Build confidence at the boundaries.

We help organizations turn difficult connections into durable products: interfaces with clear owners, platforms that reduce friction, and systems teams can change without losing sight of the whole.

How we work

Principles for engineering in the real world.

Start with the people at the edge.

Every interface has a consumer. We learn what that person is trying to do before deciding what a system should expose.

Prefer a clear seam to a grand rewrite.

We make the next safe change visible and build momentum through boundaries teams can understand and operate.

Leave the reasoning behind.

Good delivery includes standards, examples, and decision context. Clients should own both the result and the logic that shaped it.

A short studio timeline

Built around the difficult middle.

A specialist practice takes shape

Small advisory engagements focused on API ownership, domain maps, and integration realities inside established organizations.

From portfolio advice to product engineering

Platform and software teams begin pairing with Strataforge to turn standards into tested services and repeatable workflows.

One team across strategy and operations

The practice grows into a multidisciplinary studio for API product design, integration renewal, and governed developer platforms.

People behind the practice

Fourteen specialists. One shared map.

A close-knit team across product, engineering, security, delivery, and operations.

Maya Ellison

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Maya founded Strataforge after leading product and integration programs where the hardest work lived between teams. She makes strategy tangible, asks direct questions, and keeps technical decisions tied to the people who depend on them.

Daniel Rowe

Chief Technology Officer

Daniel sets the studio’s engineering direction and enjoys untangling platforms with long histories. He favors small, observable changes, crisp interfaces, and technical decisions that teams can revisit without guesswork.

Priya Nanduri

VP, API Strategy

Priya helps executives and domain teams see an API portfolio as a set of products with users and owners. Her workshops turn competing priorities into clear maps, testable decisions, and a sequence people can defend.

Marcus Hale

Director of Platform Engineering

Marcus builds paved roads that do not make every team travel the same way. He specializes in platform capabilities, delivery workflows, and the quiet operational details that make self-service dependable.

Elena Voss

Principal Integration Architect

Elena maps the paths data actually takes through a business, including the handoffs no diagram captured. She is known for pragmatic transition architectures and for documenting the tradeoffs behind each route.

Jordan Whitaker

Director of Developer Experience

Jordan studies how engineers discover, request, and use shared capabilities. They bring an empathetic research practice to portal design, then work alongside platform teams to make the improved path real.

Naomi Chen

Lead Product Designer

Naomi makes technical systems legible without sanding away their nuance. She works through service blueprints, interface prototypes, and careful content design so people can make confident decisions in complex tools.

Gabriel Foster

Principal Security Engineer

Gabriel translates security expectations into controls engineers can apply consistently. His work spans identity boundaries, threat modeling, gateway policy, and observability, with a bias toward catching risk early in delivery.

Tessa Morgan

Director of Client Delivery

Tessa makes multi-team engagements feel navigable. She connects milestones to decisions, surfaces dependencies before they become surprises, and keeps clients close to the work rather than behind a status report.

Andre Bishop

Staff Backend Engineer

Andre designs backend services with contracts and failure behavior in view. He enjoys pairing on difficult boundaries, writing useful tests, and explaining the operational consequence of a seemingly small implementation choice.

Claire Donnelly

Technical Program Manager

Claire coordinates work across architecture, security, and product without turning the plan into ceremony. Her concise decision records and dependency reviews give delivery teams room to focus and leaders confidence in the sequence.

Isaac Bennett

Lead Data Systems Engineer

Isaac works across data movement, event schemas, and the systems that reconcile business records. He helps teams choose durable contracts and makes replay, lineage, and data quality part of everyday platform practice.

Sophie Calder

Developer Advocate

Sophie turns engineering intent into examples developers can try and documentation they can trust. She works with API consumers directly, captures friction clearly, and brings that evidence back into product and platform decisions.

Ethan Park

Head of Operations

Ethan keeps the studio’s operating foundations dependable, from resourcing and administration to thoughtful client onboarding. He values clear commitments, calm coordination, and making the practical details easy to find.

Work with the people doing the work

Bring your toughest boundary problem to the table.

You will speak directly with the people who will help map, design, and deliver the next useful step.

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