Dayel Ostraco · CTO, Accelera Solutions
A CTO who still ships.
/ Secure, ATO-ready AI for federal missions
Architected and built. Not just managed.
Now shipping
Delivering AI agentic processes to DHA and the U.S. Navy.
Active engagement
Career at a glance
20
Federal delivery
$1.7B+
Program revenue
10M+
Daily transactions
2
Successful exits
IL5
GovCloud AI, IL5 controls
DoD Secret
Active clearance
~11×
Equifax Gov revenue growth
Engineering velocity · rolling 30 days
Still shipping.
Architect-in-the-loop: agents do the typing, I do the deciding. The velocity below is what a lean, AI-augmented delivery org produces by design, not a tally of hours at a keyboard.
300+
Commits shipped
320+
Pull requests merged
40
Active repositories
Languages active
Java · TypeScript · Python · Go · Kotlin · Swift · Astro · Shell
Source: SigilArk org · aggregate counts only, no private content surfaced · representative 30-day window
About
Dayel Ostraco
CTO · Accelera Solutions
Trusted by the DoD, DHA, SSA, and CMS, and by global financial institutions, to architect platforms that move billions in transactions, scale to millions of daily users, and survive the audit afterward. Currently CTO at Accelera Solutions, delivering ATO-ready AI agents for federal missions.
20 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.
Signature transformation
~11× the revenue. The same 100 people.
As Senior Director of Government Product Development at Equifax (2018–2025), leading all Product Development across three organizations (St. Louis, Atlanta, and Dublin, ~70+ people), I pivoted the business unit to an API-first model, productizing each API into a product sold to customers, and integrated The Work Number into a leading open-banking network to reach thousands of financial institutions, all while holding SOX and FCRA compliance. Revenue grew from ~$67M to ~$763M on flat ~100-person headcount (roughly ~42% compounding annually), turning Equifax Government Services into a flagship revenue engine for the company.
~$67M → ~$763M
Annual revenue, 2018 → 2025
~100
Flat headcount through the growth
~42%
Revenue CAGR, 2018 → 2025
SOX · FCRA
Held through the API + open-banking integration
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. The same architecture extends to IL5 and IL6 for classified mission deployments.
Owned hardware hosts the largest-parameter open models inside the boundary, closed-network multi-model inference, no external dependencies.
2×
NVIDIA DGX Spark
GB10 superchip workstations.
4×
NVIDIA H100
Datacenter GPUs · 80GB HBM3.
512GB
Mac Studio
Unified memory for largest-parameter inference.
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
Multi-provider AI agent orchestration with deterministic compliance output.
Multi-agent compliance pipelines producing deterministic, reproducible 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. Tested against the IL5 control baseline on AWS GovCloud with LLaMA 4 Maverick, April 2026, 9/9 green AMI hardening end-to-end.
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83.5%
CVE auto-resolution across 7 ecosystems
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99.5%
Windows STIG compliance via AMI hardening
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50
Production agents across 7 playbooks
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IL5
GovCloud-tested · FedRAMP High ready
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
Our internal AI delivery platform, 70+ specialist agents shipping with antagonist peer review and Human CCB approval.
colophon.build →
Shipping
Vallark
DoD-grade mobile API contract, OpenAPI 3.1 + iOS / Android / Web / API starters, with attestation and CUI handling baked into the spec.
vallark.build →
Shipping
Affirmark
CMMC Level 1 self-attestation app for SMB DoD subcontractors, replaces the 16-sheet workbook with a chatbot-coached, hash-chained audit log.
affirmark.build →
WOSB · CMMC L1
SigilArk
Parent brand. WOSB. AI-enabled technical delivery, program operations, and executive support across classified and regulated federal environments.
sigilark.com →
Recent engagements
From VA claims to classified AI.
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2025-Present
Accelera Solutions
Chief Technology Officer
Architected Glyphon (multi-provider orchestration, architected to IL5 controls) on Colophon, and leads Accelera's technology organization delivering the current U.S. Navy and DHA federal AI engagement first established with mSTAX in 2018.
▸ Leads a 97-person organization, scaling to 140 ▸ All engineering, delivery & operations under the CTO -
2018-2025
Equifax Government Services
Senior Director of Government Product Development
Pivoted the business unit to an API-first model, productizing each API into a product sold to customers, and integrated The Work Number into a leading open-banking network to reach thousands of financial institutions, holding SOX and FCRA throughout. In parallel, directed GenAI-powered eligibility decisioning across CMS, SSA, and state agencies, Ollama, Gemini, and Vertex AI integrated with agency policy logic on Apache NiFi, Kafka, and MLflow pipelines.
▸ Led all Product Development · 3 orgs (St. Louis · Atlanta · Dublin), ~70+ people ▸ ~$67M → ~$763M revenue · flat ~100 headcount ▸ Flagship revenue engine · ~42% CAGR (2018-2025) ▸ The Work Number → open-banking network, thousands of FIs ▸ 10M+ daily transactions -
2017-2019
Catapult Blockchain
Founder · Sold to Linxens
Founded a secure identity firm. Built mSTAX, a U.S. Navy and DHA AI/ML evaluation platform whose customer relationship continues at Accelera today, and Linxens dLoc, NFC-linked blockchain document twins. Catapult was acquired by Linxens in 2019 as I transitioned into the Equifax role.
▸ mSTAX showcased at 2018 DHA Open House ▸ ATO under HIPAA + MEDCOI -
2016-2017
CACI International
Chief Engineer · MHS GENESIS
Led backend engineering for MHS GENESIS, the Department of Defense's electronic health record program for the Military Health System.
▸ 50+ HL7/FHIR ingestion pipelines ▸ DHA + VA + all five service branches -
2014-2016
Qonceptual
Founder & CTO · Sold 2016
Founded and grew a federal and enterprise engineering firm from 1 to 15 engineers and $6.5M annual revenue before acquisition in December 2016.
▸ Scaled 1 → 15 engineers ▸ $6.5M annual revenue -
2013-2014
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Director of Mobile Development
Directed SPG mobile (iOS, Android, Apple Watch) and shipped the hospitality industry's first mobile check-in and keyless room entry, featured in Apple's 2014 keynote.
▸ Featured in Apple's 2014 keynote ▸ WSJ + CNN national press -
2011-2013
Booz Allen Hamilton
Director of Software Engineering · VBMS
Delivered VBMS, the VA's largest claims modernization at the time, while serving as Booz Allen's mobile evangelist across the federal practice.
▸ 12 cross-functional teams led ▸ 75+ engineers influenced as mobile evangelist
On the work
From the customer side.
I’ve never seen so many zero findings across our applications and environments. All deployed programs should adopt the techniques Accelera’s Cyber Agent Teams employ, or leverage the Agents directly.
Cybersecurity Lead
Federal Health Agency
Referring to Glyphon agents running CVE, AMI, and container hardening playbooks.
Capabilities
The stack I build with daily.
Languages & Frameworks
Architected production backends from MHS GENESIS HL7/FHIR pipelines to VBMS modernization to the Glyphon agent runtime.
- Python
- Java
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- React
- Node.js · NestJS
- Spring Boot
- SQL · YAML · JSON
Cloud & Infrastructure
GovCloud-native delivery for a decade. mSTAX multi-region AWS + Azure cross-cloud at DHA. Glyphon tested against the IL5 control baseline on AWS GovCloud, April 2026.
- AWS GovCloud
- Azure · GCP
- Docker · Kubernetes
- GitLab
- PostgreSQL · MongoDB · CosmosDB
- Iron Bank · Chainguard
AI/ML & Data
GenAI eligibility decisioning at Equifax with Ollama / Gemini / Vertex AI on agency policy logic. Multi-provider LLM orchestration in classified enclaves today.
- LLaMA · Gemini · OpenAI · Mistral
- Ollama · OpenWebUI
- TensorFlow
- Apache NiFi · Kafka
- MLflow · Model Lifecycle
- Prompt Engineering
Security & Compliance
ATOs under HIPAA + MEDCOI at DHA. FedRAMP / HIPAA / FISMA and SOX / FCRA at Equifax. STIG-compliant deployments, eMASS submissions, and IL5 architecture today.
- Zero Trust
- RMF · ATO
- FedRAMP High
- HIPAA · MEDCOI
- FIPS 140-3 · STIG
- NIST 800-53
- eMASS
- SOX · FCRA
Education, certification & clearance
B.S. Math + B.S. CS
State University of New York at Purchase
CISSP
Certified Information Systems Security Professional · (ISC)²
DoD Secret
Active U.S. Department of Defense Secret clearance · TS-eligible
Resume
The unabbreviated version.
Full work history, every role and achievement.
Updated May 2026
Connect
Building something audit-grade?
Open to selective conversations on full-time leadership, federal partnership and JV opportunities, and a small number of advisory engagements per year.
Federal contracting available via Accelera Solutions contract vehicles.