Dayel Ostraco · CTO, Accelera Solutions
/ 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
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
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
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-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.
83.5%
CVE auto-resolution across 7 ecosystems
99.5%
Windows STIG compliance via AMI hardening
50
Production agents across 7 playbooks
IL5
GovCloud-tested · FedRAMP High ready
Production playbooks
The product family
Our internal AI delivery platform, 70+ specialist agents shipping with antagonist peer review and Human CCB approval.
colophon.build →
ShippingDoD-grade mobile API contract, OpenAPI 3.1 + iOS / Android / Web / API starters, with attestation and CUI handling baked into the spec.
vallark.build →
ShippingCMMC 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 L1Parent brand. WOSB. AI-enabled technical delivery, program operations, and executive support across classified and regulated federal environments.
sigilark.com →
Recent engagements
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.
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.
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.
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.
2011-2016
Earlier
Full detail on every engagement is in the resume.
On the work
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.
Insights
Field notes on agents, identity, and shipping inside the federal boundary.
Frontier models version monthly; accreditation does not. Fuse the agent's identity to a model name and every release forces a significance question you cannot answer cheaply. Abstract the model behind a stable identity and a swap becomes a change request with a regression gate.
A prompt that says do not drop the database is a request. A deny-by-default command allow-list, enforced beneath the agent, is a control. What the list looks like in practice, where it must be enforced, and the escalation paths it forecloses.
Capabilities
Languages & Frameworks
Architected production backends from MHS GENESIS HL7/FHIR pipelines to VBMS modernization to the Glyphon agent runtime.
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.
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.
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.
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
Full work history, every role and achievement.
Updated May 2026
Connect
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.
