Built by engineers, for engineers.
We got tired of writing glue code between Stripe, LaunchDarkly, and Kubernetes — so we built the infrastructure layer that should have always existed. Kaiten is the unified control plane that hardwires your commercial contracts directly into your infrastructure.
Mission
Hardwire commercial contracts directly into infrastructure, with zero manual intervention. Every plan change, entitlement update, and quota enforcement should propagate automatically — from CRM to cluster.
Vision
A world where a signed contract in your CRM automatically propagates to every layer of your stack. No spreadsheets, no Jira tickets, no glue code — just a single source of truth that enforces itself.
Open Source
The core engine will always be open. The code that controls your customer's revenue gates should never be a black box. Audit every line. Fork if you need to. Self-host everything.
The origin story
Every B2B SaaS company reaches the same inflection point: the moment where the number of customers, plans, and deployment topologies makes manual governance impossible. You start building internal tools — a licensing service here, a feature flag wrapper there, a deployment tracker in a spreadsheet.
We lived this problem first-hand while scaling enterprise SaaS products. The “glue code tax” consumed 20-30% of our platform engineering time. We were maintaining three separate systems that should have been one.
Kaiten was born from a simple conviction: feature flags, entitlements, and deployment orchestration are not three separate problems. They are three facets of the same control plane. Unify them around a single tenant identity, and the glue code disappears.
The team behind Kaiten
Four engineers obsessed with closing the gap between business contracts and infrastructure reality.
Alexandre Bergere
Co-Founder & CEO
Alexandre has spent over a decade obsessed with making complex cloud architectures invisible so engineering teams can focus on their core product. Previously the Founder & CTO of DataRedKite—an observability solution acquired by DataGalaxy—he served as Principal Architect, leading Data & AI integration and cloud partnerships with GCP, AWS and Databricks. He also mentors the next generation of engineers at Sorbonne and EFREI. Alexandre co-founded Kaiten to eradicate 'Spaghetti SaaS' and the practice of hardcoding pricing plans, building an open-source control plane that restores engineering freedom by decoupling business logic from the codebase.
Tom Ribuot
Co-Founder & CTO
Tom is a technical leader focused on industrializing stacks to ensure infrastructure strictly obeys business requirements. His background includes serving as a DevOps Engineer for CANAL+ Group and Lead Python Developer at DataGalaxy, where he mastered cloud automation using Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm. Tom co-founded Kaiten to stop engineering teams from reinventing the wheel every time they need to manage a new pricing plan or feature rollout. By leveraging the OpenFeature protocol and event-driven hooks, he ensures that business packaging is transformed into strict, automated infrastructure rules.
Kevin Gonnord
Co-Founder & Founding Engineer
Kevin is a Fullstack Developer with nearly a decade of experience scaling B2B platforms and managing complex architectures. Having worked at major platforms like Meetic and DataGalaxy, he has a deep understanding of containerization and the governance flaws inherent in fragmented SaaS ecosystems. At Kaiten, Kevin focuses on ensuring that developers no longer have to pollute codebases with 'if/else' statements for Stripe limits or manually verify logs to debug blocked features. His goal is to provide native evaluation tracking and entitlements that work seamlessly without requiring extra code.
Tom Flenner
Co-Founder & Founding Engineer
Tom is a Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native, distributed systems and platform engineering. Currently a Staff Engineer at DataGalaxy and an active contributor to the CNCF ecosystem (including Dapr and OpenFeature), he has experience maintaining critical modules for national-scale organizations in defense and energy. Tom’s work at Kaiten centers on building high-performance, resilient platforms that handle complex entitlement logic and asynchronous metering. He is driven by the mission to decouple business logic, allowing engineers to move faster and experiment safely through standardized, open-source rollouts.