We multiply what engineers can do.

Obsidian was founded by Ali Abrar and Ryan Trinkle on a clear idea: with the right languages, abstractions, and methods, a team can handle complexity that would defeat an ordinary stack, and build what would otherwise be out of reach.

Mission

Obsidian exists to raise the ceiling of what software engineering can do. We choose our technologies and our people for the same qualities: depth, expressiveness, and the ability to handle real complexity. That is what lets each engineer take on problems others can't.

From theory to practice

We take powerful ideas from programming languages, formal systems, and reproducible infrastructure, and put them to work in production.

Four views into how we work.

The founding thesis, technical leadership model, values, and operating process behind our engagements.