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Co-founder & CEO

Elena Kovac

Spent six years running inference platforms and got tired of the 3am pages. Now she makes sure nobody else has to be.

Elena Kovac
At a glance

Six years on call, none of them optional.

6Years running platforms
3Companies before Zentic
40msFailover she shipped week one
0Postmortems she has skipped

Before Zentic

Elena ran inference platforms at two logistics companies and a payments startup, in that order, each one bigger than the last. The pattern repeated everywhere: a model call that worked fine in the demo, then paged someone at 3am the first time a provider had a bad afternoon. She rebuilt the same failover layer three times before deciding the fourth one should be a product instead of an internal tool.

What she owns now

Company strategy, fundraising, and the handful of enterprise relationships that need a founder on the call rather than an account manager. She still reviews every incident report personally — not because engineering needs the oversight, but because the patterns across customers are the best signal she has for what to build next.

How she works

Direct in writing, patient in meetings, allergic to roadmap slides with more than one column. She would rather ship the boring infrastructure fix than the feature with a demo video, and the rest of the team has mostly stopped arguing with her about it.

What she owns

  • Company strategy & fundraising
  • Enterprise relationships
  • Incident review, every time
  • Hiring for the leadership team

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