Company

We build the security data infrastructure layer product teams wish they did not have to build.

Mach5 helps cybersecurity companies ship fast search, analytics, streaming, transformations, and derived-data experiences without turning their engineering teams into data infrastructure teams.

We started Mach5 because too many security products were being held hostage by search clusters, brittle pipelines, backfills, and product-serving data infrastructure. That is the plumbing layer we are building.

Our story

Built by search, analytics, and distributed-systems engineers for security product teams.

Mach5 is an enterprise software company building purpose-built data infrastructure for cybersecurity products. We bring deep experience across search, analytics, distributed systems, workflow, and security data.

We saw the same pattern across security companies: strong product teams were losing roadmap time to undifferentiated infrastructure - search clusters, Kafka consumers, transformations, derived tables, backfills, tenant isolation, and query serving.

Mach5 exists so those teams can focus on detection logic, threat intelligence, workflows, product experience, and customer value - not the plumbing layer underneath.

What we believe

Four principles that shape Mach5

Product-first

Infrastructure should serve the product

Search, analytics, streaming, and derived data should accelerate customer-facing product work, not consume the roadmap.

Focused

Start with one painful workload

Mach5 adoption should begin with a concrete workload: slow search, expensive clusters, brittle pipelines, backfills, or derived data.

Purpose-built

Security data is different

High-volume event streams, tenant-aware queries, long retention, and product-serving latency shape every part of the platform.

Open

Meet teams where their data lives

Mach5 works with object stores, streams, warehouses, SaaS sources, and existing security systems instead of forcing one monolithic path.

The team

Meet the Mach5 team

Search engineers, distributed-systems builders, and security operators shipping the platform together.

Vinayak Borkar

Vinayak Borkar

Chief Executive Officer

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Zachary Heilbron

Zachary Heilbron

Chief Product Officer

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Satya Sundar Sahoo

Satya Sundar Sahoo

Head of Engineering

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Priyata Sipani

Priyata Sipani

Head of Quality

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Ram Phadke

Ram Phadake

Software Engineer

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Independent by design

Self-funded, bootstrapped, and customer focused.

Mach5 is built independently by a team focused on durable product, practical customer outcomes, and long-term trust. We work closely with cybersecurity companies and practitioners who need search, analytics, streaming, and data infrastructure that holds up in production.

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2021

Founded

Remote-first

Distributed team

10.2B

Rows benchmarked

1/15th

Compute vs. comparable engines

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See how Mach5 handles your search, analytics, streaming, or pipeline workload.

We will show how Mach5 runs in your environment, scales to petabyte-size data, and reduces infrastructure drag without a platform migration.

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