The Team

Three founders. One product.

We're a small team with direct backgrounds in grid operations and power systems engineering. No VP of Marketing. Not yet.

Nikolai Petrov, CEO and Co-Founder

Nikolai Petrov

CEO & Co-Founder

8 years as a system dispatcher and load forecasting analyst at a Texas municipal utility. Held a NERC System Operator certification. Developed the original forecast model after the 2021 curtailment event that started the company.

Daria Okonkwo, CTO and Co-Founder

Daria Okonkwo

CTO & Co-Founder

Power systems engineer with 6 years in grid modeling and state estimation at an ISO. Led the architecture of the real-time telemetry pipeline, the ensemble forecasting engine, and the DNP3 and OpenADR 2.0b integration layers.

Marcus Lindqvist, Head of Compliance Engineering

Marcus Lindqvist

Head of Compliance Engineering

Former NERC compliance auditor with 9 years reviewing BAL-001 and BAL-002 performance filings at a regional transmission organization. Built GridKern's compliance reporting module from the audit templates he spent years evaluating.

How We Operate

A small team with a focused scope

We're seed-stage. That means every person on the team ships code, talks to customers, and understands the grid problem firsthand. We don't hire generalists to manage specialists.

Austin, TX — On-Site

We work from our Austin office. Control room software requires the kind of hands-on collaboration that doesn't work over async Slack. When a customer's SCADA configuration causes an integration issue, we fix it together in the same room.

We're Hiring Grid Engineers

Our next hire is a power systems engineer with hands-on EMS or SCADA experience. If you've worked in a control room and know what a dispatcher actually needs, send a note to info@gridkernx.com.

Domain Depth Over Headcount

We don't scale by hiring. We scale by building features that reduce operational overhead for our customers. When a new NERC standard drops, we update the compliance module within 60 days — because Marcus ran those audits himself.

Direct Access to Founders

Every customer gets Nikolai's direct email. We take all integration questions through a shared support channel the whole team monitors. At our current scale, there's no reason to route grid operations questions through a tier-1 helpdesk.

Talk to Us

Technical questions? Talk to the engineers directly.

No sales qualification call. If you want to understand how the forecast model works on your feeder topology, we'll get Daria on a call.

Contact the Team