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Forge Systems is a team of 64 reliability engineers, researchers and designers in San Francisco, London and nine time zones in between. Our job is to make production calm.

Our story

We spent a decade on call. Forge is what we wished we had.

Our founders ran reliability for payment platforms where a minute of downtime was a headline. The hard part was never the fix. It was finding the one real problem inside hundreds of alerts, at night, with half the context in someone else's head.

Forge exists to carry that context for every team. It learns how your systems connect and how your engineers work, does the investigation in minutes, and hands a person a fix that already proves itself. People stay in charge of production. Forge makes sure they are never working blind.

  1. 2023

    Founded after one too many 3 a.m. pages

    Two engineers who had run reliability for large payment platforms started Forge in San Francisco.

  2. 2024

    First design partners

    Six teams ran Forge read-only for a quarter. It grouped their alerts long before it was allowed to fix anything.

  3. 2025

    The first verified fix

    Forge shipped its first approved fix behind a canary, and opened a second office in London.

  4. 2026

    Watches and 2,000 fixes

    Seven always-on watches launched, and customers passed 2,000 verified fixes merged into production.

Principles

How we decide what Forge should do.

  1. 01

    Earn trust with evidence

    Every claim Forge makes comes with the data behind it. If it cannot show its work, it does not say it.

  2. 02

    People approve, always

    Forge proposes and proves. The engineers who own a system decide what changes in it.

  3. 03

    Quiet by default

    The best page is the one that never had to be sent. We measure ourselves by the noise we remove.

  4. 04

    Leave it better

    Every incident should leave production a little more understood, and the next one a little shorter.

people across two offices
64
time zones on the team
9
incidents resolved with customers
1,860+
verified fixes merged
2,140+
Leadership

The people answering the pager.

  • Elena Vasquez

    Co-founder and CEO

    Ran site reliability for a payments platform handling 9,000 transactions a second.

  • Samuel Okoye

    Co-founder and CTO

    Built the incident tooling behind 1,400 services and spent eight years on call.

  • Maya Okafor

    Research lead

    Works on causal reasoning over distributed systems and how to measure it honestly.

  • Priya Natarajan

    Head of product

    Led developer platform products for teams of 20 to 2,000 engineers.

  • Daniel Reyes

    Staff engineer, reliability

    Owns the canary and verification systems that every Forge fix passes through.

  • Noah Brennan

    Head of customer engineering

    Runs every pilot personally, from the first connection to the first merged fix.

Backed by

Investors who have run production themselves.

  • Northgate Ventures
  • Foundry Row
  • Meridian Capital
  • Halyard Partners
Offices

Where we work.

  • San Francisco

    Headquarters in the Mission District

  • London

    Engineering and research in Shoreditch

  • Remote

    Teammates across nine time zones

See what we built.

A 30 minute walkthrough on your own stack, with one of the engineers who built Forge.