About Mithris

Democratizing
reliability engineering.

Mithris builds the platform that lets every enterprise adopt mature SRE practices — without requiring elite SRE teams. Reliability should not depend on who you can hire.

Mission

Make modern SRE and operational readiness practices accessible to every enterprise.

The most reliable systems on earth are operated by tiny SRE teams at a handful of tech companies. That capability shouldn't depend on hiring practices most enterprises can't sustain. Mithris codifies it — making operational readiness a guided, auditable discipline.

Co-founders
Kevin Khalafi (CEO) — platform engineering & SRE operator. Zahra Harley (CFO) — finance & banking, regulated-buyer fluency.
Headquarters
Distributed · core team across North America
Product
Live in production · five-microservice Kubernetes deployment · OHA module shipped through five development phases
Compliance
SOC 2 program initiated · ISO 27001 mapping · HIPAA & PCI control coverage shipped
Vision
Help enterprises transition from reactive operations to adaptive, AI-driven operational governance — without losing the operational rigor regulators and customers demand.
— Kevin Khalafi · Co-founder & CEO
Long-term vision

From reactive operations to adaptive operational governance.

A multi-decade trajectory for how enterprises operate complex software systems. Mithris is built for every step along this path.

PRESENT
Reactive operations
Incidents drive the operational agenda. Reliability is rediscovered every quarter.
EMERGING
Proactive reliability engineering
Operational readiness is measurable, continuous, and governed. The discipline of SRE, operationalized.
FUTURE
Adaptive operational governance
AI-driven guidance, predictive risk, self-healing workflows, and operational hazard analysis.
Core principles

How we build.

PRINCIPLE 01

Shift reliability left.

Operational readiness is a property of the software lifecycle, not a gate at the end of it. Every dollar invested before pre-prod is worth ten dollars after.

PRINCIPLE 02

Codify expertise.

The hard-won knowledge of elite SRE teams shouldn't live in scattered runbooks and tribal memory. Mithris encodes it as policy, scoring, and guided workflows.

PRINCIPLE 03

Measure what matters.

Operational maturity must be quantified to be improved. Readiness scoring, drift detection, and continuous validation make abstract reliability concrete.

PRINCIPLE 04

Compound across the portfolio.

One universal core. Industry overlays on top. Operational investment in any service raises the floor for the entire portfolio.

PRINCIPLE 05

Continuous, not periodic.

Static readiness reviews rot in days. Real readiness is validated against live telemetry, continuously — not by spreadsheet, once a year.

PRINCIPLE 06

Augment, don't replace.

Mithris integrates with the telemetry, ITSM, CI/CD, and incident tooling you already trust. We give your stack operational coherence, not another silo.

What we are — and are not

Mithris in three lines.

Operational governance innovator

Mithris pioneered continuous operational readiness as a discipline — beyond monitoring, beyond PRR checklists, beyond GRC.

Reliability engineering focused

We do one thing, deeply. Operational readiness, observability maturity, and reliability governance for enterprise software systems.

Enterprise resiliency partner

Built for regulated industries. Audit-ready by default. Designed to operate inside the security perimeter of the world's most demanding enterprises.

The team

Domain operator on engineering. Regulated-buyer fluency on finance.

Co-founders who have lived the problem from both sides — building the platform an enterprise SRE org actually needs, and speaking the language of the regulated buyer who signs the contract.

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Kevin Khalafi

CO-FOUNDER · CEO

Platform engineering and SRE operator. Architect and builder of the Mithris platform — five microservices, Kubernetes-deployed, full OHA module shipped through five development phases. Has run the problem at scale and brings the product specificity that comes from lived experience.

PLATFORM ENG · SRE · DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS · STPA
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Zahra Harley

CO-FOUNDER · CFO

Finance and banking background — direct line into the regulated buyer's vocabulary. Owns commercial discipline, financial strategy, fundraising, and unit economics. Drives deal structure and investor relations for the enterprise motion that funds the rest.

BANKING · CFO · COMMERCIAL STRATEGY · GTM
Hiring
Founding engineer — distributed systems & SaaS architecture. Roles also open in applied AI for operational risk, customer engineering, and enterprise security.
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Who we serve

Three buyers. One platform.

Every regulated enterprise has the same three personas around the operational readiness conversation. Mithris is built so each finds answers to the question they're actually asking.

CHAMPION · ENTRY

SRE Director / Platform Engineering Lead

"We're running PRRs in Confluence spreadsheets and maturity scores in Excel. Three different teams score the same control three different ways. It's chaos."

Feels daily pain · can trial without procurement · demos to VP and CISO

OPERATIONAL · EXPANSION

VP Engineering / CTO

"I have 200 apps and I genuinely don't know which ones are time bombs. I need a portfolio view and a hazard register before my next board meeting."

Accountable to CIO and board for uptime · needs one defensible reliability number

ECONOMIC · SIGNS

CISO / Chief Risk Officer

"DORA Article 6 requires a documented ICT risk-management framework with hazard identification. My regulator wants evidence — not slides."

Signs the enterprise contract · owns the audit and regulator relationship

Work with us

Help us build the future of operational reliability.

Mithris is hiring across reliability engineering, observability, AI/ML for operations, enterprise security, and customer engineering.

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