Kolton Andrus
Chief Executive Officer at Gremlin
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKolton Andrus is a seasoned software leader and founder with over a decade of experience building resilient, large-scale systems and reliability products. As CEO and Founder of Gremlin, he pioneered commercial Reliability Management tooling that helps organizations avoid outages and harden production systems. His background spans hands-on engineering and management roles at Netflix and Amazon, giving him deep expertise in distributed systems and operational excellence. Based in the Denver area, he pairs technical rigor from an MS in Computer Science with entrepreneurial grit, having transitioned between CTO and CEO roles as Gremlin scaled. Less obvious: his career path reflects a recurring focus on turning failure-mode thinking into productized practices that make complex systems observable, testable, and safer in production.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (8)
latency10
fault-tolerance10
isolate10
cascading10
fault10
points10
hystrix9
distributed-systems7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KoltonAndrus/Home
Nov 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 31 pushes in 2 years 2 months
KoltonAndrus/Hystrix
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 months
isolatehystrixpartytolerancefault
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