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Abe Reyes

Founder, Ascendant Ventures — Building Foundary

I build systems that make complex software delivery reliable, auditable, and safe to operate at enterprise scale. Two decades at the intersection of platform architecture, reliability engineering, and organizational governance.

Now

Founder, Ascendant Ventures. Building Foundary — governed agentic delivery for enterprise teams.

Previously

VP / Principal Architect at Salesforce. Chair, C360 Availability Council. CTO of MapAnything through acquisition.

Expertise

Platform architecture, reliability & SLOs, delivery governance, agentic systems, enterprise-scale operations.


Two decades building systems that hold.

From startup CTO to enterprise VP, the through-line has always been the same: make delivery reliable enough to trust.

2026 →

Founder

Ascendant Ventures

Building Foundary — a platform for governed agentic delivery. Designed for enterprise teams that need AI-assisted development to be as auditable and policy-bound as the rest of their software process.

Foundary Agentic Delivery Governance
2019–2026

VP / Principal Architect

Salesforce — CRM & Availability Governance

Led enterprise architecture for CRM (Sales, Service, Field Service). Chaired the C360 Availability Council, aligning cross-cloud reliability objectives, incident standards, and scalable operating practices across one of the world's largest SaaS platforms.

Enterprise Architecture Reliability / SLOs Incident Governance CRM Platform
2017–2020

CTO

MapAnything (acquired by Salesforce)

Owned technology strategy and execution from growth stage through acquisition. Drove cloud-native platform delivery and operational maturity that positioned the company for a successful Salesforce integration.

Platform Strategy Cloud-Native M&A Integration

"AI-assisted development is only credible
when it is governed."

Every reliability and governance problem I've seen at scale comes down to the same thing: process that works in demos but breaks under production pressure. Foundary exists to make agentic delivery structurally trustworthy — not just fast.

Approvals are durable

Every gate is recorded and verifiable. No decision is ephemeral, no approval can be retroactively disputed.

Runs are auditable

Every delivery run produces a sealed record. What happened is knowable — always — without relying on agent self-reporting.

Execution is policy-bound

Agents operate within defined constraints. Policy is structural, not advisory. The same gates apply to every run, every time.

Let's talk.

If your organization is thinking seriously about governed agentic delivery — or if you're evaluating how AI fits into your software process — I'd welcome the conversation.