Chris Battarbee
Chief Executive Officer at Metoro (YC S23) - Instant Observability For Kubernetes
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Battarbee is a CEO and software engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade backend and observability systems, currently leading Metoro (YC S23) to deliver instant, eBPF-powered observability for Kubernetes. A former Palantir engineer who worked on Foundry’s compute platform and forward-deployed engagements, he combines deep systems and SRE thinking with product-led startup execution. Trained at Imperial College London with top honours and a President’s Scholarship, he pairs academic rigour with hands-on delivery from internships at Improbable and Netcraft to enterprise engineering. Based in London, he’s focused on making cluster-wide instrumentation effortless—turning what typically takes weeks of setup into minutes—and remains actively engaged with the developer community as a founder-engineer.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Imperial College LondonA Levels and GCSEs, A Levels and GCSEs at Bolton School Boys' Division
Github Skills (47)
extender10
api8
ai8
scheduler8
spark8
zero-code8
temporal8
kubernetes7
scheduling7
opentelemetry6
workflow-management6
k8s6
backend6
golang6
gpu6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
metoro-io/metoro-helm-charts
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Helm charts for metoro
Contributions:46 releases, 2 reviews, 31 PRs in 10 months
metoro-io/statusphere
Mar 2024 - Nov 2024
Batteries included open-source api-first status page aggregator
Contributions:256 releases, 1 review, 10 PRs in 8 months
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