Two engineers,
one bookkeeper,
a dog.
coldsmoke is intentionally tiny. Every project is staffed by founders. There is no junior bench.
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Ben Halverson
Principal · Cloud & SaaSEx-Stripe, ex-Hashicorp. Wrote production Terraform before it was cool. Skis at Bridger 80 days a year.
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Ana Cardoso
Principal · AI & MLEx-Anthropic Solutions, ex-DeepMind intern. Has shipped 14 LLM systems to production. Thinks RAG is mostly retrieval.
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Karin Lee
OperationsRuns the books, the contracts, and the Friday demo Zooms. Former PM at two seed-stage SaaS companies.
Honorary
Olive.
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Australian Shepherd. Comes to standups. Has opinions about Kubernetes (negative).