Our Team

The Cachai team has distilled decades of experience building enterprise-scale, mission-critical systems into Altiro—a powerful, repeatable platform that brings real-time coordination, resilience, and autonomy to distributed Edge and IoT environments.

With Altiro, we've taken the complexity out of building reliable, decentralized systems—so organizations can deploy edge intelligence at scale, with confidence.

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    Emma Bates

    CEO, FOUNDER

    Business leader with deep experience at the nexus of strategy & technologies at DoD, U.S. Army, Center for Strategic & International Studies and Data Vortex Technologies

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    Jesse Bates

    CTO, CO-FOUNDER

    DevSecOps Engineer & 2nd time Founder; 3 years Supercomputing & Distributed Systems experience from Data Vortex Technologies

  • S. Ryan Quick

    DISTINGUISHED DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ARCHITECT

    25 years experience across PayPal/Ebay, Qualcomm, L3Harris, Samsung, and government national labs.

  • Sarah Laughlin

    VICE PRESIDENT for OPERATIONS

    Former startup founder with deep business operational experience at high-tech, venture-backed startups.

  • Services & Custom Products Team

    Founded in 2017 by award-winning distributed infrastructure engineers Arno Kolster & Ryan Quick, PWW brings world-class expertise at the intersection of enterprise hyperscale, distributed architectures, and cybersecurity.

Automating Distributed Systems Expertise

Our products are the distillation of elite expertise in the fields needed to deliver distributed systems anywhere.

Distributed Mesh Networking

Stateful Orchestration

Consensus Mathematics

State Management

Real-Time Data Messaging

monitor and user interface

Distributed Cybersecurity

Sensor Fusion

Data Fusion

We’ve built Scalable, Portable, and Economical Solutions

Cachai is a pioneering startup with consensus solutions that enhance data coordination, resiliency, and scalability for enterprise-grade distributed systems. Our products seamlessly integrate into any system or hardware, reducing the need for specialized engineering talent and ensuring efficient, secure operations.

Cachai empowers enterprises and startups alike to overcome the challenges of latency, faults, and data consistency, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth.

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