Team
Laurina Bragdon
COO and Principal Program Manager
Laurina serves as xStratus COO specializing in AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and enterprise transformation. With 20+ years of international leadership experience across 35+ countries, she helps organizations scale operations, strengthen governance, optimize delivery, and execute high-impact transformation programs.
Her expertise spans operational strategy, digital transformation, cybersecurity, cloud modernization, ServiceNow, PMO leadership, and organizational change. Recognized for bringing structure to complexity, Laurina enables organizations to improve performance, mitigate risk, and achieve sustainable growth.
Gregg Stefanelli
CTO and Principal Architect
Gregg is a cloud and platform engineering executive with extensive experience leading cloud transformation, modernization, and platform engineering initiatives. As Founder and CTO of xStratus, he helps organizations navigate the challenges that emerge as technology environments scale, including increasing complexity, rising cloud costs, operational inefficiencies, and reliability concerns. His background includes leadership roles in cloud engineering and architecture, where he has guided teams responsible for large-scale cloud platforms supporting critical business operations.
Gregg's expertise includes multi-cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, and GCP), DevOps, cloud security, observability, FinOps. and Agentic AI. Through xStratus, he combines strategic advisory services with hands-on execution to deliver measurable results for clients.
Our Engineers
Our engineering team brings deep expertise across cloud, platform, and DevOps disciplines, with certifications spanning all three major cloud providers—AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Beyond certifications, our engineers have extensive real-world experience designing, building, and operating production cloud environments, helping organizations improve reliability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Our capabilities include Kubernetes and container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), serverless computing, microservices architectures, CI/CD pipeline development, cloud security and compliance best practices, observability and monitoring, cloud cost optimization (FinOps), disaster recovery, high-availability architectures, and modern DevOps methodologies. We combine architectural expertise with hands-on execution to help clients move quickly from concept to production while maintaining security, reliability, and operational excellence.