The team

We ❤️ building mission-critical software

We have spent our careers building products, platforms and infrastructure at Stripe, Meta and Microsoft. Systems that power millions of businesses and billions of users. Now we are applying those hard learned lessons, in complex systems and in go-to-market, to deliver real value for our customers at ArchAstro.

Vivek Sharma

Co-founder

Stripe BL, Meta VP, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer.

Scaled Stripe Revenue Suite to $500m+ ARR with new products and go-to-market motion.
Led Stripe Billing to a category-leading position and grew Stripe Tax into a formidable new entrant.
Built Facebook Gaming Video and scaled Instant Games to 200m+ users and $1bn+ revenue.
Grew Facebook Marketplace to 700m+ users and worldwide expansion.
Built and scaled Exchange, Exchange Online, and Office 365, including in China, to $10bn+ run rate and millions of customers.

Calvin Grunewald

Co-founder

Stripe Eng VP, PlayCo President & CTO, Meta Director, Microsoft Engineer.

Built Stripe Billing into an industry-leading product, including major v2 rearchitecture.
Led PlayCo's game production, technology, and talent teams across multiple messaging platforms.
Relaunched Facebook platform APIs and developer programs for third parties and businesses.
Incubated and grew Instant Games into the world's largest open games platform.

Arne Roomann-Kurrik

Founding Engineer

Engineer and manager for Stripe Billing, Twitter analytics and Google developer platform.

Head of Platform at Multiplier Holdings, helping to acquire and transform high-stakes service businesses with AI.
Launched and led Stripe Billing in both engineering manager and staff+ software engineering roles.
Tech lead for Twitter analytics and engineering manager for a SMB-focused Twitter client.
Developer Programs Engineer in Google's Developer Relations group, supporting third-party developers.

Rob Masson

Founding Scientist

Atlassian Principal DS, Meta Senior DS, TradeLink Quant.

One of the most senior data scientist ICs at Meta, specializing in ecosystems.
Led Instagram Teen Account research to drive production supply and financial outcomes.
Led understanding of immersive content on Facebook across video and gaming.
Led Marketplace trust and safety, verticals, growth, buyer experience, and search.

Rafael Brandao Lobo

Founding Engineer

Meta Senior Eng TL, longtime WebKit contributor.

Built brand advertising products on Facebook leading to popular adoption and revenue growth.
Built and grew Facebook Gaming live platform to become one of the largest gaming streaming platforms in the industry.
Led critical privacy and performance optimizations work on Facebook Live and Video Creators.
Led efforts to reward original creators and promote their original content on Facebook.

Bruno Garcia

Founding Engineer

Open source startup founder, developer platform and experience at PlayCo and Sega.

Built PlayCo's developer platform and SDKs.
Founder and CTO at 2DKit, an open source framework.

Tore Hanssen

Advisor

Statsig Founding Engineer, Meta Engineer.

Founding engineer at Statsig, supporting more than 300 enterprises.
Built and grew the standalone Facebook Gaming app to 2M+ weekly users.
Built Instant Games Payments and Conversion API.
Built Facebook Marketplace Messaging.

Backed by the early believers and angels who bet on us:

Will Gaybrick, Claire Hughes Johnson, Deb Liu, Vijaye Raji, Homebrew (Satya Patel, Hunter Walk), Sheila Gulati, Vladimir Fedorov, Karandeep Anand, Rajeev Rajan, Ash Jhaveri and Akin Babayigit. We were lucky to work with Soma Somasegar as well.

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