Our team

Small team. Full ownership.

Everyone at Maple & Chen is senior. Everyone owns a meaningful slice of the work. There is no layer between you and the people solving your problem.

Senior-only

Everyone on this team has done the work before. No juniors learning on client time.

Small by design

We keep the team tight so quality stays consistent across every engagement.

Remote-first

We work across time zones but coordinate like a co-located team.

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Marcus Chen

Co-Founder & CEO

Marcus spent a decade leading technology strategy at two Fortune 500 firms before co-founding Maple & Chen. He oversees client relationships, firm strategy, and the principles that govern how the firm takes on work.

Client StrategyFirm OperationsExecutive Advisory
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Sophia Maple

Co-Founder & CTO

Sophia holds a Masters in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and has architected systems processing over $2B in annual transaction volume. She leads all technical delivery and sets the engineering standards the firm holds itself to.

System ArchitectureAI & MLEngineering Quality
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James Okafor

Head of Cloud & Infrastructure

James is a certified architect across AWS, Azure, and GCP with 12 years of infrastructure experience spanning logistics, fintech, and healthcare. He has migrated over 40 enterprise workloads without a single hour of unplanned downtime.

Cloud ArchitectureInfrastructure MigrationSRE
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Priya Nair

AI & Data Lead

Priya researched NLP at Carnegie Mellon before moving into applied AI. She designs the RAG pipelines, classification systems, and LLM-powered workflows that our clients deploy at scale — and takes full ownership of how they perform in production.

LLM SystemsData PipelinesModel Evaluation
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Luca Ferreira

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Luca has shipped production code across 14 countries in sectors from e-commerce to clinical trial management. He builds the web platforms and APIs our clients depend on daily and maintains an unusually strong bias for simplicity.

Web PlatformsAPI DesignPerformance
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Hannah Kowalski

Head of Client Strategy

Hannah spent six years in management consulting before specialising in technology engagements. She runs discovery, facilitates workshops, and ensures every brief is grounded in the right problem before any solution is discussed.

DiscoveryStakeholder AlignmentChange Management
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Riku Tanaka

CRM & Systems Architect

Riku has implemented CRM systems for over 30 sales organisations, from 5-person teams to 400-seat enterprise deployments. He specialises in making CRM platforms reflect how teams actually work — not the other way around.

HubSpotSalesforceWorkflow Automation
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Amara Diallo

IT Operations Lead

Amara leads our managed IT support practice. She has built helpdesk operations from scratch at three growing companies and brings the same care to endpoint management, onboarding workflows, and incident response.

IT SupportEndpoint ManagementSLA Operations

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We hire rarely and deliberately. There are no open roles right now, but we keep a shortlist of exceptional people we'd like to work with when the time is right.

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