# 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.