Now partnering with select automotive teams · 2026

Software engineering for automotive digital commerce.

ThreadAxis partners with automotive businesses to design, build, and scale AI-powered commerce platforms — across direct-to-consumer storefronts, marketplace integrations, and the operational systems that move real inventory.

Founded2025
HeadquartersEl Segundo, California
FocusAutomotive · D2C & B2B
EngagementSenior, hands-on teams
About

Engineering that ships, intelligence that compounds.

ThreadAxis is an AI-powered technology consulting firm specializing in digital commerce solutions for the automotive industry. We partner with engineering and product leaders to architect, build, and operate the systems their businesses depend on.

Our work spans multi-channel fulfillment, supplier and marketplace integrations, real-time inventory and pricing infrastructure, and the intelligent automation that turns operational complexity into measurable margin.

We're a small senior team. We write code, own outcomes, and stay close to the production systems we build — from first architecture sketch through the third year of operation.

We build systems that get smarter as they scale — not heavier.
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Senior engineering
experience at scale
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Prior CTO of an FT
fastest-growing company
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Core capabilities
under one roof
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Senior, hands-on
engagement model
Capabilities

What we build.

Six disciplines, one engineering team. We engage where the work actually happens — in the architecture decisions, the production incidents, and the day-to-day code that decides whether a system scales or stalls.

01 / Engineering

AI-First Software Engineering

Production systems with intelligence built into the architecture, not bolted on after. Models, evals, and observability treated as first-class code.

02 / Architecture

Cloud-Native System Architecture

Distributed platforms designed for scale, resilience, and operational clarity. Boring infrastructure where it matters, sharp tools where it counts.

03 / Commerce

Direct-to-Consumer Commerce

Storefronts, checkout, fulfillment, and the integrations that hold them together — built to survive contact with real catalogs and real traffic.

04 / Platforms

B2B Platforms & Marketplaces

Marketplace integrations, supplier APIs, and the workflows that move real inventory. Where partners, contracts, and protocols all have to agree.

05 / Data

Real-Time Data & Analytics

Streaming pipelines and decision systems that operate at the speed of the business. Pricing, inventory, fraud, and demand — observable end-to-end.

06 / Automation

Intelligent Automation & Integration

Connecting systems that weren't designed to talk to each other, reliably and observably. Where most of the operational margin actually lives.

How we work

Embedded, senior, accountable.

We don't sell decks. We embed alongside your team, take ownership of discrete problem areas, and stay close enough to production to be paged when it matters.

01
Listen & map

We start with the systems, the org, and the constraints — not the pitch. The first deliverable is usually a shared understanding of where the leverage is.

02
Architect & prove

Tight loops between design and working code. We prototype the load-bearing parts early so the architecture is evaluated against reality, not slideware.

03
Build in production

Senior engineers writing code, on-call for what they ship, integrated with your CI, your incident response, and your product process from day one.

04
Hand off, stay reachable

The goal is a system your team owns confidently. We document, we transfer, and we stay reachable through the first quarters of operation.

Technology

A modern, production-proven stack.

Chosen for longevity, ecosystem depth, and the kind of performance envelopes automotive commerce actually demands. Nothing exotic — everything battle-tested.

Runtime
Java 25
Current LTS · virtual threads, ZGC
Framework
Spring Boot 4
Reactive & servlet, AOT-native ready
Messaging
Apache Kafka
Event backbone for inventory & pricing
Database
PostgreSQL · ScyllaDB
Transactional + high-throughput event store
Infrastructure
Kubernetes
Multi-region, GitOps-managed
OpenTelemetry Terraform Argo CD Redis Debezium gRPC OpenSearch LangGraph Pydantic AI Temporal
Leadership

Founded by engineers who've shipped at scale.

Alexandru Sabou, Chief Executive Officer of ThreadAxis
Alexandru Sabou
Chief Executive Officer
Based
El Segundo, CA
Since
2025

"Most platform problems aren't technology problems — they're systems problems wearing a technology costume. Our job is to see through to the systems underneath and engineer accordingly."

Alexandru brings 8+ years of software engineering experience to ThreadAxis, with a track record of scaling high-growth technology companies through deep operational complexity.

Previously CTO at a company recognized by the Financial Times as one of the fastest-growing in the United States, he led engineering through multi-channel marketplace integrations, AI-driven automation, and the infrastructure decisions that make scale possible.

Experience8+ years
PreviouslyCTO, FT-ranked growth co.
FocusArchitecture & scale
Get in touch

Let's build something that compounds.

Whether you're scaling an existing platform or designing one from first principles, we'd be glad to hear what you're working on.

[email protected]
LocationEl Segundo, California
HoursMon–Fri · PT
ResponseWithin 1 business day