Leadership and team

Named roles. Direct responsibility.

Our veteran-led team covers product, mission operations, cybersecurity, data and machine learning, partnerships, and platform architecture—with direct accountability from discovery through delivery.

The core team

The people behind the promise.

These public biographies stay intentionally focused on each person’s responsibility at Serapis. They do not disclose clearances, sponsors, customer access, or unrelated current employment.

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Devin Hummel

Founder, CEO & Principal Investigator

Navy veteran responsible for product direction, quality systems, operations, and turning governed engineering into software teams can understand and use.

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Eric Vice

CISO & Electronic Warfare Systems SME

Navy veteran responsible for cybersecurity, security architecture, customer-boundary design, and operational risk across Serapis products and engagements.

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Jacob R. Whitney

Chief Data Officer & Machine Learning Lead

Navy veteran leading data and machine-learning work, with an emphasis on measurable evaluation, useful automation, provenance, and evidence that remains meaningful when models change.

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Izak Ramirez

Chief Strategy & Partnerships

Navy veteran leading customer discovery, partnerships, and mission alignment so each engagement begins with the operator’s real problem rather than a technology demonstration.

Cody Kuykendall

CTO, Principal Engineer & Chief Architect

Platform engineer and architect responsible for translating the product thesis into reliable systems and keeping the technical path coherent as Serapis grows.

How we work

Direct responsibility from problem to operation.

A small team is an advantage only when ownership is explicit. The engagement should make it clear who can decide, who must review, and who fixes the next problem.

DISCOVERY

Start with operators

Understand the work, pressure, systems, language, and constraints before shaping a product or technical answer.

DELIVERY

Keep owners visible

Product, engineering, security, data, and customer decisions have named responsibility instead of disappearing between functions.

CONTINUITY

Stay through operation

Deployment, maintenance, correction, model change, rule change, and customer exit are part of the product path.

One team

Bring us the problem as it actually exists.

You will work with the people responsible for understanding it, shaping the proof, and delivering the bounded result.