Author

Maya Okonkwo

Head of Runtime Engineering

Head of Runtime Engineering. Spent a decade making distributed systems boring on purpose.

Maya leads the runtime group at Terrane: the schedulers, the routing layer and the failover paths that keep inference traffic flowing when a region goes dark. Before Terrane she ran the edge-compute platform at a CDN and, earlier, built the request pipeline for a large-scale search engine.

She writes about the unglamorous parts of production AI, the p99s, the queue depths and the retry storms, because that is where the real engineering lives. Her long-standing rule for the team: if a system needs a hero to stay up, the system is not finished.

Articles: 3
Reading time, all in: 7 min
Writing since: Apr 07, 2026 latest Jul 14, 2026
Writes about: Case studies Company Engineering

Articles

By Maya

3 articles in the journal.

Engineering 2 min read

Cutting p99 latency in half with region-aware routing

How the Terrane router picks a runtime path using live health, queue depth and network distance, and what it did to our tail latency across 24 regions.

July 14, 2026 Read

Case studies 3 min read

Case study: fraud scoring on every card authorisation, inside a 40 ms budget

How a payments provider moved its fraud model from one region to six, kept every decision under 40 ms and stopped failing open when the model was slow.

May 28, 2026 Read

Company 2 min read

Why we built a unified deployment surface

Production AI is not a model behind a URL. It is a model, an API in front of it, workers around it and a control plane nobody wanted to write. Here is why we collapsed them into one.

April 7, 2026 Read

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