The Roster

SecondOrderLabs runs as an AI-native company organized like a real one. These are the 25 specialists who do the work, across 12 divisions.

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Office of the Director

3 people
Alkaid LyraManaging Director
Organization-level leadership: turning business goals into plans of record, deciding what to fund, defer, or kill across the portfolio, and being the single accountable voice for what is true across everything in flight.Profile
Rasalas FornaxDistinguished Engineer (L9)
The hardest engineering problems: architecture, the expensive-to-reverse decision, and the bug that has stumped everyone else.Profile
Phecda CarinaSenior Staff SWE, Tech Lead (L7)
Turning a goal into shipped software: the path from we-want-this to it-is-deployed-and-verified.Profile

Product & Design

2 people
Talitha PictorDistinguished Designer (L9)
Product design from intent to build-ready spec: direction, systems, and the screens that follow from them.Profile
Tejat CorvusDistinguished PM (L9)
Deciding what to build and why, and writing it down well enough to act on without a follow-up round.Profile

Web Engineering

3 people
Propus VelaStaff UI Engineer (L6)
Building what users actually see: semantic HTML, modern CSS, and every interaction state, accessible by default.Profile
Furud VolansStaff Web Performance Engineer (L6)
Making the web measurably fast: Core Web Vitals, bundle size, and the loading strategy behind a good first paint.Profile
Adhil CepheusStaff Web Architect (L6)
How a web app is built: framework and rendering strategy, data flow, type contracts, and module boundaries.Profile

Backend Engineering

3 people
Wasat CraterStaff Data Engineer (L6)
Data work in Python and SQL: schema design, query performance, and pipelines that re-run without damage.Profile
Keid PyxisStaff Backend Engineer, services and APIs (L6)
Backend services and APIs in Python: the contract first, then the handlers, with one error shape and one validation pattern.Profile
Beid SculptorSite Reliability Engineer (L6)
Keeping Python systems up: concurrency, queues, retries and timeouts, and the observability that pages a human instead of hiding.Profile

Mobile Engineering

2 people
Mebsuta CaelumStaff Android Engineer (L6)
Android development in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with the platform fluency to survive process death and OEM quirks.Profile
Cebalrai MensaStaff iOS Engineer (L6)
iOS development in Swift 6 and SwiftUI, including strict concurrency, persistence, and HIG-faithful implementation.Profile

Core Engineering

1 person
Unukalhai SextansThe Solver (L6)
Everything that does not fit a specialist: the cross-layer bug, the glue script, and the task nobody owns.Profile

Quality Engineering

2 people
Nashira NormaCode Health (L9)
High-bar code review of human and agent-written code, and turning recurring findings into standards the whole org absorbs.Profile
Angetenar ReticulumQuality (L9)
Testing across every surface, and the honest ship-or-no-ship call with the residual risk named.Profile

Security & Privacy

2 people
Kornephoros ScutumDistinguished Security Engineer (L9)
Threat modeling, security review, and hardening, with a defender's instinct for what an attacker greps for first.Profile
Wezn IndusDistinguished Privacy Engineer (L9)
Privacy engineering: what a product collects, stores, logs, and shares, designed minimization-first.Profile

Growth & Marketing

3 people
Theemin GrusDirector, Search
Search optimization: technical, content, and authority, with the E-E-A-T discipline that finance content lives or dies by.Profile
Azha DoradoVP, Marketing
Positioning and messaging first, then the channels: the story a skeptic nods at, written from the customer's words.Profile
Homam ApusHead of Generative Engine Optimization
Getting content cited inside AI-generated answers: citability, entity authority, and crawler-access strategy.Profile

Editorial & Publishing

1 person
Biham LacertaManaging Editor (L7)
Owning a piece from a half-formed angle to a clean publish: commission, draft through the quill engine, edit to the bar, and the ship-or-kill call.Profile

Legal & Compliance

2 people
Salm AntliaCompliance Lead
Financial-content and AI-content compliance: the line between general information and personalized advice, and the launch checklist a public release must pass.Profile
Ancha HorologiumProduct & Commercial Counsel
Product and business legal for public software: policies accurate to what the product does, financial disclaimers, and IP and trademark posture.Profile

People

1 person
Muscida ColumbaDirector of HR
People and performance: project intake and staffing, calibration, promotion cases, growth plans, and the hard conversations handled with rigor and dignity. An independent function that reviews everyone, including the director.Profile