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// Dayel Ostraco // CISSP // AWS Solutions Architect // DoD Secret //

Full Stack AI Engineer
& Secure Systems Architect

/ CTO at Accelera Solutions — ATO-ready AI for federal missions

Multi-provider LLM orchestration in classified enclaves.

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About

Dayel Ostraco

Dayel Ostraco

CTO · Accelera Solutions

Currently CTO at Accelera Solutions, an AI-first company delivering ATO-ready AI agents for federal missions. Seventeen years engineering secure, full-stack platforms for federal, defense, and public-sector clients — integrating generative AI, LLMs, and real-time data pipelines into systems that hold under Zero Trust, RMF, and FedRAMP / HIPAA.

I lead Agile teams, ship code daily, and prefer playbooks over PowerPoints. Trusted by the DoD, DHA, SSA, CMS, and global financial institutions to architect platforms that move billions in transactions, scale to millions of daily users, and survive the audit afterward.

What I do

Three disciplines, one delivery model.

Tier 01

AI Integration

  • ▸Multi-provider LLM orchestration — OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, Bedrock
  • ▸Deterministic agent pipelines with byte-identical artifacts
  • ▸Grounded retrieval, prompt engineering, model lifecycle management
  • ▸CUI-aware logging and audit trails

Tier 02

Secure Architecture

  • ▸Cloud-native systems on AWS GovCloud, Azure, GCP
  • ▸Microservices behind Zero Trust gateways and federated identity (iAS, DS Logon, OAuth)
  • ▸Container hardening — FIPS 140-3 distroless, Iron Bank, Chainguard
  • ▸Hybrid and multi-region cross-cloud designs

Tier 03

Federal Delivery

  • ▸Authority to Operate (ATO), RMF, FedRAMP High, HIPAA, MEDCOI
  • ▸STIG-compliant deployments and eMASS submissions
  • ▸End-to-end DevSecOps from GitLab pipelines to production cutover
  • ▸Agile leadership across cross-functional teams

The lab

A self-contained AI lab. IL4-equivalent control set. Architected for IL5 and IL6.

I built and operate a self-contained lab where authorized AI agents — Glyphon playbooks, Colophon engineering teams, custom workloads — run against an IL4-equivalent control set: closed-network boundary, federated identity, no external telemetry, per-action audit. The same architecture extends to IL5 and IL6 for classified mission deployments.

IL4

Equivalent today

Closed-network boundary, federated identity, multi-provider orchestration, hash-chained audit, no external telemetry.

IL5

Architected

Architecture extends to IL5 controls. Boundary, identity, and audit primitives already in place.

IL6

Designed

Patterns and segmentation designed for classified workloads. Ready for sponsorship and accreditation.

Flagship product

Glyphon™

Multi-provider AI agent orchestration with deterministic compliance output.

Multi-agent compliance pipelines producing byte-identical artifacts across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and AWS Bedrock. Seven production playbooks covering CVE resolution, AMI and container hardening, eMASS POAM submission, and FedRAMP SSP generation. Validated at IL5 on AWS GovCloud with LLaMA 4 Maverick — April 2026, 9/9 green AMI hardening end-to-end.

  • 83.5%

    CVE auto-resolution across 7 ecosystems

  • 99.5%

    Windows STIG compliance via AMI hardening

  • 50

    Production agents across 7 playbooks

  • IL5

    GovCloud-validated · FedRAMP High ready

glyphon.ai Government

Production playbooks

  • ▸ CVE Resolution — 10 agents, 7 ecosystems
  • ▸ AMI Hardening — 9 agents, 7 platforms
  • ▸ Container Hardening — 7 agents, 4 registries
  • ▸ Semgrep SAST Triage — 8 agents
  • ▸ Security Posture Assessment — 7 agents, 14 tools
  • ▸ eMASS POAM Submission — 4 agents
  • ▸ FedRAMP SSP Generation — 5 agents (beta)

The product family

Four products, one thesis: humans stay in charge.

Colophon

70+ specialist AI agents — engineering, architecture, design, docs, testing, data science — with antagonist peer review and Human CCB approval. cATO discipline per feature shipped.

colophon.build →

Vallark

DoD-grade mobile API contract — OpenAPI 3.1 spec plus iOS, Android, Web, and API starters. CAC Plate institutional mark. Attestation and CUI handling encoded in the API design itself, not the implementation.

vallark.build →

Affirmark

CMMC Level 1 self-attestation app for SMB DoD subcontractors. Replaces the 16-sheet workbook with a hash-chained audit log, email-ingest evidence aggregation, and a grounded chatbot that coaches managers through the 15 requirements.

affirmark.build →

SigilArk

Parent brand. WOSB. AI-enabled technical delivery, program operations, and executive support across classified and regulated federal environments.

sigilark.com →

Recent missions

Selected production work.

  1. 2019 — 2025

    Equifax Government Services

    Director of Government Product Development

    Directed development of a secure income and identity verification platform serving CMS, SSA, and state agencies. Architected GenAI-powered eligibility decisioning with Ollama, Gemini, and Vertex AI integrated into agency policy logic and real-time data pipelines (Apache NiFi, Kafka, MLflow).

    • ▸ 10M+ daily transactions
    • ▸ $1.7B+ cumulative program revenue
    • ▸ FedRAMP, HIPAA, FISMA/NIST compliance
    • ▸ Hurricane Ian DSNAP rapid deployment with FL

  2. 2017 — 2019

    Catapult Blockchain

    Founder · Sold to Linxens

    Founded a secure identity engineering firm delivering cloud-native, API-driven solutions for high-security banking and federal mission environments. Led design and implementation of mSTAX — a modular full-stack platform for the Department of the Navy and DHA evaluating AI/ML and LLM inference workloads in mission-critical environments. Built Linxens dLoc, combining blockchain and NFC-linked physical documents to create tamper-resistant digital twins.

    • ▸ mSTAX showcased at 2018 DHA Open House
    • ▸ ATO under HIPAA + MEDCOI
    • ▸ Multi-region AWS + Azure cross-cloud
    • ▸ Acquired by Linxens, June 2019

  3. 2011 — 2017

    Earlier work

    Federal · enterprise · platform

    • CACI International · Chief Engineer, MHS GENESIS backend (DHA · VA · all five service branches). 50+ secure ingestion pipelines for HL7/FHIR, AWS GovCloud + .mil. '16–'17
    • Qonceptual · Founder & CTO. Scaled from 1 to 15 engineers, $6.5M/year revenue, sold December 2016. '14–'16
    • Starwood Hotels & Resorts · Director of Mobile Development. SPG iOS/Android/Apple Watch — featured in Apple's 2014 keynote. First mobile check-in / keyless room system. '13–'14
    • Booz Allen Hamilton · Director of Software Engineering. Delivered VBMS (VA modernization, 12 cross-functional teams). Mobile evangelist across 3 business lines, 75+ engineers. '11–'13

Capabilities

The stack I build with daily.

Languages & Frameworks

  • Python
  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Node.js · NestJS
  • Spring Boot
  • SQL · YAML · JSON

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS GovCloud
  • Azure · GCP
  • Docker · Kubernetes
  • GitLab
  • PostgreSQL · MongoDB · CosmosDB
  • Iron Bank · Chainguard

AI/ML & Data

  • LLaMA · Gemini · OpenAI · Mistral
  • Ollama · OpenWebUI
  • TensorFlow
  • Apache NiFi · Kafka
  • MLflow · Model Lifecycle
  • Prompt Engineering

Security & Compliance

  • Zero Trust
  • RMF · ATO
  • FedRAMP High
  • HIPAA · MEDCOI
  • FIPS 140-3 · STIG
  • NIST 800-53
  • eMASS

Certifications & clearance

CISSP

Certified Information Systems Security Professional · (ISC)²

AWS SAA

AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate

DoD Secret

Active U.S. Department of Defense security clearance

Resume

The unabbreviated version.

Full work history, every role and achievement.

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Updated May 2026

Selected coverage

Connect

Building something audit-grade?

I take on a small number of advisory and architecture engagements per year. Federal, regulated industry, AI/ML platform work.

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