Factory Hires Connor Maloney as Head of Federal to Push Into Public Sector

A federal hire with agency and industry experience

According to Factory's announcement, Maloney joins from Rubrik, where he was Vice President of Federal. He began his career as a Program Manager at the Department of War before moving into industry, where he built and led teams at ServiceNow and DataRobot.

Factory says this background gives him a clear understanding of how agencies assess new technology, how to build partnerships that last, and what is at stake for the people those agencies serve.

In the announcement, Maloney said: "Federal agencies need both cutting-edge software capabilities and the ability to access them in the most secure, regulated environments." He added that Factory "is built from the ground up to meet the needs of modern commercial and defense software engineering teams and is a step change in ability at a critical time."

Matan Grinberg, Factory cofounder and CEO, said: "We help federal teams modernize while keeping the security controls their programs require." He described Maloney as "mission-aligned and focused on delivering outcomes in the public sector." Factory also recently announced a partnership with Carahsoft.

What Factory offers government and enterprise teams

Factory says it is reshaping how organizations such as NVIDIA, Blackstone and RBC build and manage software. Its approach is a system in which engineers define intent and govern outcomes, while autonomous software factories handle execution and ongoing improvement.

The company says the platform rests on three principles:

• Model independence: enterprises can choose the best model for each task.
• Sovereign intelligence: customers control where the system runs and retain what it learns.
• Continual improvement: work across code review, security, deployment, and incident response makes the whole system more capable.

For deployment, Factory says teams can run it as Factory Managed, as Factory Private in their own cloud or on-premises, or fully air-gapped. Org-wide policies set what Droids can access, run, and change, and who approves each release. Sensitive code and data stay inside the customer's own environment, according to the company.

Growth backdrop and what it means

The appointment follows other recent company news. Factory says it opened offices in Japan and closed a $200 million funding round at a valuation of $5 billion. It is hiring across engineering, sales, marketing, and operations, with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Japan, and other locations.

For public sector buyers, the hire signals that Factory is building a dedicated federal business. The deployment options it lists, including air-gapped operation and private environments, line up with the security and regulatory needs Maloney and Grinberg cite. The announcement gives no details on specific agency customers, certifications or timelines for the federal push.