Our Team
The engineers who become your AI team
Civil engineers who also write software. We embed with architecture and engineering firms as the AI and software capability they have not hired, and leave them owning what we build.
VibeOps Technologies Inc.
The AI engineering team for AE firms.
We've watched engineering teams lose hours to repetitive documentation, manual data entry, scattered tools, and workflows that haven't changed in decades.
VibeOps exists to build focused software that fits real workflows, so teams spend more time on actual engineering and less time fighting their tools.
The core team behind VibeOps.
Zander Dent
CEO & Co-Founder
Civil Engineering Workflows
Hey, I'm Zander. I started out in civil engineering at a City and saw just how much of the job was manual, repetitive work. I picked up software through freelancing in university, then landed my first engineering job in consulting, which is where I got hooked on helping clients fix their tools. VibeOps grew out of that.
Owns
Product · Investor relations · Customer discovery · Design
Experience
- Sales (5+ yrs)
- Municipal Engineering
- Software Engineering (@ Civil Firm)
- 1st Place, UBC Civil Engineering Capstone 2026
Félix Stewart
Co-Founder & Co-Owner
Founding Team
Civil engineer and one of the people who helped get VibeOps off the ground. Félix holds an ownership stake but isn't part of the day-to-day team. Active development is led by Zander.
Experience
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Advanced Structural Engineering
- Geosciences
- 1st Place, UBC Civil Engineering Capstone 2026
Contributors
People who helped build and shape VibeOps along the way.
Olivia Butkus
Contributor · Marketing Associate
Social Media, Marketing & Community
Olivia runs our social media, marketing, and community work. She's an Industrial Engineering student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and likes mixing the creative side with the problem-solving side to help us grow.
Sofia Gibb
Contributor · Marketing & Social Media
Brand, Marketing & Engagement
Sofia helps lead our marketing and social media, working to grow our brand presence and engagement. She's an Economics student with a Business Certificate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she brings creativity, adaptability, and a strong work ethic to everything she takes on.
Edmund Zhang
Contributor · Creative & Video
Content, Media & Growth
Edmund handles our media and turns technical work into things people actually want to watch. Demos, promo content, the story of what we're building. That's him.
Sam Khalil
Contributor · Sales & Outreach
Sales, Partnerships & Growth
Sam is a Civil Engineering student at the University of Waterloo who runs a lot of our sales and outreach. He's good at building relationships and spotting where we can grow, and he keeps the engineering side and the business side talking to each other.
Nishant Shah
Contributor · GTM Strategy
Market Research & Opportunity Mapping
Nishant builds VibeOps' data-driven view of the market, pinpointing where civil-engineering and construction teams lose the most time to manual, repetitive work that AI can take off their plate. He designed an AI-powered research pipeline that mined hundreds of real practitioner pain points across estimating, submittals, drawings, and the field, then scored and ranked them into a prioritized opportunity map. That work directly informs which problems VibeOps takes on first and how we describe them.
We're growing
Join the team
We're after engineers and builders who want to ship real tools, not slideware.
Work with usAdvisory Board
Educators and engineers who keep us aligned with real civil workflows.
Dr. Tamara Etmannski
Advisor · Entrepreneurship & Engineering Leadership
Innovation, pedagogy, and venture building
Assistant Professor of Teaching in Civil Engineering and Co-Director of Environmental Engineering at UBC. Tamara helps us with strategy and leadership, and keeps us honest about whether our tools actually fit how students and practitioners learn and work.
Dr. Noboru Yonemitsu
Advisor · Hydrotechnical & Design Education
Hydrotechnical workflows & civil design
Associate Professor of Teaching in Hydrotechnical Engineering at UBC, with decades across research, consulting, and teaching CIVL design projects. Nobo keeps us grounded in how real projects run and where automation fits into existing QA without breaking it.
Hassan Pardawalla
Advisor · Operations & Scaling
Culture, frameworks & operational scaling
Operations executive and fractional COO who helps SMBs and Series A/B startups grow without falling apart. With an Executive MBA and 20+ years building the systems and culture behind that growth, Hassan advises us on operations, go-to-market, and how to scale without breaking things.
We're growing
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Help shape how civil engineering firms adopt automation.
Talk about advisingHow we work
We embed with an engineering firm as the AI and software team it does not have: learning the workflow, proving the hard part on real project material, building it, and handing over something the firm owns and operates.
Mission
Give engineering firms the AI and software capability they would otherwise have to hire.
What we do
Implement AI on confidential project data, integrate the systems you already run, and build the tools nobody sells you.
Need an AI team you don’t have to hire?
Talk to the teamBring the problem. We embed, build it, and hand it over.