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About Salve

We build for the 2 AM shift,
so nobody has to work it.

Salve started with two people who spent years driving to chargers in the middle of the night to press a reset button. We are building the operations console we wished we had.

2023

founded in Austin by two people who ran the night shift

64

people across Austin and Denver

61,400

ports watched tonight, in 41 states

How it started

Most faults don’t need a truck.They need someone to read the code.

Maya OkaforCEO, co-founderBen HartleyCTO, co-founder

Maya ran field operations for a regional charging network in Texas. Ben wrote charger firmware for six years. They met on a cold January night at a travel plaza on I-35, both there for the same broken charger, which turned out to need a single reset.

They pulled a year of fault logs and found that most incidents followed patterns: the same codes, on the same models, fixed the same way. None of it needed a person on site, and most of it did not need a person awake.

Salve is the result: a console that reads every message a charger sends, fixes what it safely can, and hands the rest to people with everything they need. We still measure ourselves the same way: how many people did not have to get up tonight.

Travel Center, I-35 · January 2023

Maya Okafor and Ben Hartley beside a DC fast charger at an I-35 travel plaza at night, Ben crouched with a laptop
Maya and Ben at the travel plaza where Salve started, three winters later.

What we believe

Four rules we build by.They decide most arguments.

When we disagree about a feature, one of these usually settles it. They are also why customers trust Salve with their chargers at night.

01

Fix it before anyone notices

The best incident is the one a driver never sees and an engineer reads about over coffee.

02

Never touch a charger without permission

Every command Salve sends comes from a playbook a person approved. Watch-only is always one switch away.

03

Show the work

Every diagnosis comes with the raw messages behind it, and every fix with the test that proved it.

04

Drivers are customers too

The person standing at the charger deserves to know what is happening, before they think to ask.

Milestones

From one garage to 41 states.Three years, one night at a time.

Every milestone started with a customer asking for something we had not built yet.

  1. 2023Jan FoundedMaya and Ben start Salve in Austin after a night on I-35.
  2. 2023Sep First 100 portsBrightway Charge connects one garage, then all of Austin.
  3. 2024Jun Remote fixesThe first approved playbook closes 1,000 incidents in a month.
  4. 2025Mar NEVI reportingFederal uptime filings move into Salve. Denver office opens.
  5. 2026Oct 61,400 ports214 networks in 41 states. 2.3 million incidents closed.

Leadership

People who have done the job.Most of us have been on call.

Half of our team ran charging networks, field crews or charger hardware before joining Salve. It shows in what we build.

Maya Okafor, CEO, co-founder
Maya OkaforCEO, co-founderRan field operations for 900 chargers across Texas.
Ben Hartley, CTO, co-founder
Ben HartleyCTO, co-founderSix years writing charger firmware and OCPP stacks.
Lucía Fernández, VP, Customer Success
Lucía FernándezVP, Customer SuccessLeads the Denver team that onboards every network.
Andre Washington, VP, Field Network
Andre WashingtonVP, Field NetworkBuilt the partner network of 140 field service companies.
Hannah Cole, Head of Product
Hannah ColeHead of ProductSpends a night a month on a customer’s on-call shift.
Sam Nakamura, Head of Platform
Sam NakamuraHead of PlatformKeeps 61,400 live connections up, in two regions.
Priyanka Desai, Head of Finance
Priyanka DesaiHead of FinanceRuns the numbers behind every payback estimate.
Jamal Carter, Solutions Engineering
Jamal CarterSolutions EngineeringRuns most first demos. Ex-charging network operator.

Careers

Help us end the night shift.5 open roles.

We hire people who have felt the problem, and people who are very good at solving someone else’s. Austin, Denver or remote in the US.

Equity for everyoneHealth, dental and vision, fully coveredA paid week each quarter, no meetingsNo on-call pages at night. We use our own product.
Senior Backend Engineer, OCPPPlatformAustin or remote (US)Field Network Manager, SoutheastField NetworkAtlanta, remoteProduct Designer, ConsoleProductAustinCustomer Success Manager, Public AgenciesCustomer SuccessDenverSolutions EngineerSalesRemote (US) See all roles and how we hire

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Most first calls are run by someone who used to run a charging network. Bring your hardest night.

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