Meet the Team

Get to know the people behind Telos Sphere—our backgrounds, passions, and expertise.

Jafar Hosseinzadeh

Jafar Hosseinzadeh

Co-Founder & CEO

I’m a software development and cloud transformation leader with a passion for helping teams build secure, scalable, and modern systems. Over the past 20+ years, I’ve partnered with organizations in healthcare, life sciences, and enterprise IT to lead initiatives that streamline software delivery, modernize infrastructure, and bring clarity to complex technology challenges.

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Matt Salla

Matt Salla

Co-founder & Chief Operating Strategist

I'm a Software Engineering Manager who spent 25+ years turning chaotic systems into reliable machines, from slashing AWS costs by 90% and zero-rollback pipelines to building teams that ship weekly with <2% failure rates. I thrive at the intersection of hands-on DevOps, Agile leadership, and empowering engineers to do their best work while keeping stakeholders and product owners seeing the same vision.

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Illia Sokalau

Illia Sokalau

Co-founder & CTO

As CTO, Illia Sokalau blends end‑to‑end DevOps expertise and a lifelong passion for automation to deliver secure, scalable, cost‑efficient web products you can trust.

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Ian Yocum

Co-founder

Software engineer and problem-solver with 13+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable, and compliant systems across government, health tech, genomics, and e-commerce.

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Ruslan Digoev

Co-founder

Software engineer with a polyglot toolkit and a soft spot for tangled systems. Ruslan has spent his career making complex web platforms — from high-traffic legacy apps to modern LIMS and ML pipelines — faster, safer, and easier to reason about.

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David Summer

David Summer

Co-founder

David Summer is an atorney and an experienced civil litgator. He is admited to the Bars of Massachusets, New York, U.S. Tax Court and U.S. Federal Court of Claims. Over his career, he has successfully tried jury cases in both the federal and state courts. David Summer worked in the Internatonal Tax Department of a Big Four accountng firm. He has been recognized as a Massachusets Super Lawyer in the area of Taxaton (2019-2025).

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