Meet Our Team
Calibyr's leaders engage, equip, and empower others.
Maria Jones
Co-Founder | President | CEO
Maria Jones is the President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Calibyr. Maria leads Calibyr’s strategic growth, partnerships, and delivering value to our employees and our customers. She manages our Employee Experience and Candidate Experience programs, which deliver concierge-level support and tailored opportunities to our employees.
Maria has been advancing secure software solutions for the Intelligence Community for over a decade as a systems engineer and project manager. As a leader, she leverages each team member’s strengths to deliver innovative capabilities and grow high-performing, high-morale teams. Maria has a track record of initiating and executing cross-organizational innovations to advance mission success. Known for her ability to communicate technical concepts to any audience, she has presented at over a dozen industry and Intelligence Community conferences.
Recognized as a rising leader in Maryland, Maria was named to the Daily Record's 2023 Leading Women under 40 list for professional achievement, community service, and commitment to inspiring change.
Maria earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a Minor in French, Summa Cum Laude, from Mount St. Mary’s University, where she now serves on the Board of Advisors for the School of Science, Mathematics, and Technology. Maria was inducted into the University’s Academic Circle of Excellence Alumni Hall of Fame in 2024.
Seth Marple
Co-Founder | Chief Technology Officer
Seth Marple is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Calibyr. Seth leads Calibyr’s technical direction and skills development of Calibyr engineers, and manages Calibyr’s cybersecurity posture and compliance to Government contracting requirements.
As an innovative and adaptable software engineer, Seth has over a decade of experience developing high quality web applications and services for government customers. Committed to driving mission outcomes, he advances the rapid and scalable development of key capabilities. His technical expertise includes full-stack development, DevOps, architecting Cloud solutions (AWS, Azure), and developing capabilities that enable cross-domain technology transfer. Seth has been recognized by teammates, leadership, and stakeholders for commitment to excellence, efficiency, and innovation.
Seth earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and English from McDaniel College, and earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University.
Our Values
Our corporate values align with our vision that Calibyr is a leader in both technical success and corporate culture and ethics. We create high performing teams by valuing and embodying Respect, Integrity, Transparency, Autonomy, Continuous Improvement, and Innovation.
Foundational Values
At Calibyr, we believe that every member of our team is a leader, regardless of their formal role on the team. Each team member contributes to the team’s culture and our shared success. We value and leverage each individual’s strengths, providing them the opportunity to grow and contribute in a way that best serves not only the team but their individual growth as a professional.
- Respect
- We respect our customers, our employees, our partners, and our communities. We recognize that without mutual respect and openness to ideas, trust and innovation cannot thrive. We actively collaborate with our customer to achieve successful outcomes.
- Transparency
- Our Customers trust us to deliver results. Successful delivery is built on a foundation of trust, communication, and accountability. As Agile leaders leveraging Project Management Professional (PMP) skills, we provide project monitoring and controlling that provides our stakeholders with the most accurate project status information they need, when they need it.
- Integrity
- Success for our Customers is built on trust. We believe that upholding our values, demonstrating transparency, and communicating proactively are the essential foundation for building and keeping that trust.
Technical Excellence Values
We believe that success is a reflection of a team’s culture. Where each person creates:
- Autonomy
- Excellence and accountability: We ensure that each employee is engaged, equipped, and empowered to make decisions and drive results. We closely vet all candiidates to staff our teams with the best professionals. Therefore, we trust each membr of our team to utilize their autonomy as they perform their best work towards individual and shared goals.
- Continuous Improvement
- Experts in Agile software development, our team is fully engaged in driving continuous improvement. We are not afraid to embrace new technologies or methodologies if it will enable us to better serve our Customers and our people. Continuous improvement means ongoing retrospection to discover areas for growth, being engaged in the continually evolving technological landscape in order to identify opportunities, and encouraging every member of the team to be bold in sharing their feedback and ideas.
- Innovation
- Encouraging and embracing diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, and problem solving are not only strengths but are necessary in providing the best solutions for our Customers. At Calibyr, we empower our team to innovate by creating a culture that breeds innovation. Our engineers contribute to open source projects, stay up-to-date on emerging technologies, and get excited about best practices because we are passionate about what we do. Encouraging this passion, creativity, and curiosity is what drives our innovative approaches to solving our customers’ complex challenges.
Say Hello!
Send us a note at hello@calibyrcorp.com to learn more about Calibyr.
