
After years spent selling infrastructure and cybersecurity, DevRev's Federal Founder is asking a harder question: how can public institutions adopt AI without surrendering context, control or sovereignty?

The Army veteran and attorney built City Detect around a stubborn municipal truth: cities cannot fix what they cannot see. His next test is making computer vision useful without letting the machine make the human decisions.
A former big-contractor principal built a 150-person federal IT firm around a simple wager: agencies would trade a famous logo for faster decisions, working software and people who stay close to the mission. Two decades later, the interesting part is not its technology stack - it is the operating model underneath it.

Before founding Zenysis, Jonathan Stambolis moved through corporate law, a housing venture, UN diplomacy and Palantir. The through-line is less glamorous than the résumé: making complicated institutions usable.