Co-Founder & CEO
Mkrtych (Mike) Oganyan
Hands-on platform architect and software engineering leader with more than 23 years of experience building and modernizing enterprise systems.
AI-native software + firmware
Complex engineering.Compressed.
A Greater Los Angeles engineering company bringing senior judgment and AI-native delivery to complex startup and industrial programs.
Client-owned code · Senior-led delivery · Continuous verification
Why Ten Mile Zone
Local roots. Wider reach.
Our first clients were all within ten miles of where we lived. The name became a reminder of how engineering partnerships should feel: close to the problem, accountable to the people operating the system, and built on relationships rather than transactions.
We remain rooted in Greater Los Angeles and bring that same proximity and accountability to engineering teams wherever they operate.
Client perspective
Trusted in complex programs.
These testimonials come from Ten Mile Zone clients across industrial, advanced manufacturing, and medical technology work.
“This team provides true bandwidth with high flexibility to accommodate your need timely, accurately ensuring good quality.”
Alex Finch
Tri-D Dynamics Inc.
“Result oriented and highly professional team’s creative solutions have served as a real complimenting asset to our company.”
Casey Lloyd
Flowserve Corporation
“TenMileZone’s analytical approach to technology development is a great value add to any program. Their organized and insightful systems engineering approach helped us meet both business and scientific requirements in a complex field.”
Ed Chinchoy, Ph.D.
3VO Medical Inc.
Senior accountability
The people responsible for the work are visible.
Co-Founder & CTO
Ara Tarumyan, Ph.D.
Systems engineer and technical leader with more than 25 years of experience across embedded systems, control and monitoring systems, condition monitoring, and research and development.
Founding Member & AI Program Manager
Kristina Sargsyan
AI program leader focused on turning complex initiatives into governed, reviewable delivery programs with clear ownership and stakeholder alignment.
What we build
Engineering capacity for the work that does not fit a template.
We join complex programs where specifications are incomplete, legacy behavior matters, software meets devices, or delivery has stopped moving.
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AI-native software
Systems that move the business
Production web applications, enterprise services, AI-integrated systems, data platforms, integrations, and modernization.
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Production firmware
Code that meets the physical world
Embedded software, device connectivity, gateways, BLE, sensor integration, protocols, and device-cloud systems.
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Engineering acceleration
Clarity, velocity, verification
Focused intervention for delayed, legacy-constrained, or technically difficult programs that need senior momentum.
ExploreThe operating model
AI changes the system of work—not the standard of engineering.
Frame
Make the real problem explicit
We turn ambiguous requirements, technical constraints, and business stakes into a delivery model the whole team can inspect.
Build
Parallelize the right work
AI-native workflows accelerate research, implementation, migration, testing, and documentation under senior engineering direction.
Prove
Verify continuously
Automated checks, traceable decisions, and working increments keep speed connected to correctness.
Transfer
Leave the system stronger
Client-owned code, clear operating knowledge, and maintainable architecture prevent dependency on an outside agency.
Engineering patterns
Experience across the software–device boundary.
Connected systems
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Device-to-cloud product foundations
Firmware, gateway services, cloud ingestion, operational APIs, and interfaces designed as one observable system.
Industrial operations
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Condition-aware monitoring systems
Telemetry pipelines and decision interfaces that turn field signals into engineering and operational context.
Enterprise delivery
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Complex application modernization
Legacy-constrained services and interfaces reshaped into testable, evolvable systems without losing critical business behavior.
Who we help
Different buying contexts. The same engineering standard.
We serve two groups particularly well, while applying the same senior accountability, client ownership, and verification model to adjacent technically complex organizations.
Funded startups
Reach the milestone without building the wrong foundation.
Product, platform, AI, and firmware engineering for startups with accountable leadership and a consequential technical outcome.
Industrial organizations
Modernize the system without losing the operation.
Software, firmware, telemetry, and integration work grounded in field conditions, legacy behavior, and operational continuity.
Bring us the hard part
Move the program forward.
Tell us what is delayed, constrained, or technically difficult. We will help determine whether Ten Mile Zone is the right engineering partner.