Summary
Johnny Graettinger is a seasoned founder and CTO with 16 years building distributed, high-scale, low-latency streaming systems, primarily in advertising and marketing technology. As Co-Founder & CTO of Estuary and creator/committer of the Gazette Project, he architects cloud-native streaming platforms that have supported production workloads at millions of messages per second. His background includes leading publisher engineering at LiveRamp, founding Arbor (acquired by LiveRamp), and core systems work at Invite Media and Google where he implemented SPDY/HTTP2 networking in Chrome. Johnny blends hands-on systems engineering with product-minded platform design, focusing on operability and developer ergonomics for streaming data. He holds an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and brings a rare combination of research-grade rigor and practical, revenue-driving operational experience. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of shipping interoperable infrastructure that lets independent teams safely coordinate through a shared streaming catalog.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University