a small studio.
built by senior operators
Raiken is a software studio of fifteen people — engineers, designers, and a few hard-to-categorize generalists. We started in 2021 after years of building products inside startups and at large tech companies. We wanted the work without the meetings; clients wanted seniority without an agency layer.
Three things we
don't compromise on.
Craft
We've been building software long enough to know shortcuts come back to bite. We write code we'd be happy to inherit and design systems we'd be happy to live in.
Velocity
Senior teams ship faster, not slower. We move with the speed and conviction that comes from having made the relevant mistakes already, on someone else's product.
Partnership
We work in your tools, on your repository, in your channels. We argue when we should, defer when we shouldn't, and never disappear after launch.
Senior people,
small team.
We stay deliberately small — every person on a project is someone who could lead it. Below: the people you'd actually work with.
Ines Marlow
Twelve years building zero-to-one products. Previously product lead at a Series C fintech.
Yannick Roux
Distributed systems and dev tooling. Two acquisitions, one open-source library you've probably used.
Priya Nair
Editorial, product, and motion. Believes typography is 80% of the job.
Tomás Beltrán
Builds agents that work on the tenth try, not just the first demo.
Aiko Tanaka
Swift and Kotlin in equal measure. Has shipped to the App Store more than fifty times.
Marcus Hale
Terraform, Kubernetes, and a deep suspicion of any system he can't draw on a napkin.