The firm
Built by people who have written the law and shipped the system.
Stratafield exists because the hardest public and regulated problems don't respect the line between policy and engineering. We registered in Estonia, a state that treats digital governance as infrastructure, and we work wherever the problem is.
Principles
How we work.
01
Rules and systems, designed together
A law no system can enforce fails. So does a system no law authorises. We work on both at once.
02
Decision-ready, always
Every deliverable ends in something a leader can sign, fund or reject: a draft, a roadmap, a build.
03
The right bench for the mandate
A small senior core, with specialists from our network added when the problem calls for them and not otherwise.
04
Ownership transfers
We document, train and hand over. Success means the client does not need us for the same thing twice.
05
Discretion by default
We work in sensitive settings, including whistleblower testimony, security reviews and pre-publication drafts. Confidentiality is part of how we are built.
“Strata” are the layers every decision rests on. The field is wherever the work is.
Network
A bench, assembled per mandate.
Our core team is small and senior. Around it is a network of specialists we have worked with on government programmes, multilateral assignments, research collaborations and non-profit initiatives. We bring them in when a mandate needs them, under Stratafield's contract, standards and accountability.
- Legislative drafters & constitutional lawyers
- Telecom & RAN architects
- Security engineers & penetration testers
- ML researchers & data scientists
- Economists & public-finance analysts
- GIS & utility network engineers
- Anthropologists & field researchers
- Linguists & annotation leads
- Full-stack & mobile engineers
- Programme, M&E & grants specialists
Leadership
Accountable at the top.
Asif Shahriyar Sushmit
Founder & Managing Principal
A policy technologist and engineer who has worked on both sides of digital governance, writing the law and building the systems it governs.
He was principal drafter of national instruments on personal data protection, cyber safety, data governance and interoperability, and telecommunications. He co-authored a National AI Policy (2026–2030) as a member of its steering committee, and was a delegate to the ITU-T AI capacity-building workshop.
He has served as policy analyst and coordinator in a ministry of ICT and as chief coordinator of a national ICT-sector governance taskforce. He has also worked as information-security consultant to UNDP, oversaw a USD 20M public technology portfolio and restructured a USD 24M AI programme.
His technical record spans Google Research (generative-AI red-teaming), machine translation engineering, graduate research in biomedical imaging at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and co-founding a language-AI research community of more than 8,000 researchers. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from BUET and has more than 300 citations.
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