The New Standard for Observability
Everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo.
The way we challenge the status quo is by reimagining observability with simplicity and innovation.
Our mission is to make observability radically simple, fast, and cost-efficient for every company and engineer on the planet.
Our Journey
Observability is a complete mess in many companies.
Observability is crazy expensive! Companies are spending millions on observability and hiring whole teams to manage observability internally. Do you realize it is the 3rd highest engineering spend after people and cloud infrastructure cost? and it's growing 2x faster than your AWS bill. That's insane! What's even more insane? 95% of collected data is never queried.
Observability is complicated! You require an army of developers to set up and operate when running self-hosted because open-source tools like Prometheus tend to break at any meaningful scale. When using commercial tools, it is very difficult to determine what to keep and what to discard.
Observability data is growing exponentially! and MTTR is going uphill. Companies are forced to make hard choices between visibility and cost introducing business risk. Just like how data lakes grew by 10-100x, observability has become a data problem. We believe Observability costs should be based on consumption, not on ingestion.
Observability tools have annoying lock-ins! Migrations are extremely painful. There is no easy way to switch between vendors, you don't own your data, no (open source) compatibility - people think in quarters and years, not days, weeks, or months.
Vijay and Kiran personally experienced this firsthand as a buyer of a high-scale company (Rubrik) for five years. We led multiple (painful) migrations and evaluated several open-source tools and commercial vendors. None of them met our needs regarding cost efficiency, scaling reliably with low management overhead, and debugging customer impacting issues quickly. Then, we looked at every critical design decision from first principles to come up with a remarkably better cloud-native architecture (think order of magnitude) that leverages separation of Storage and Compute, Serverless, and AI.
We strongly believe this will become the new standard for observability, unlocking new use cases not possible before. This unique architecture will go a long way towards delivering cost-efficiency (sublinear pricing), speed (ability to debug) and simplicity (ease of operations) to our customers.
Built for the best.
Backed by the best.
Ashmeet Sidana
Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital, ex-Managing Partner at Foundation Capital ($2B+ fund)
Arash Afrakhteh
General Partner at Pear VC, Co-founder, Cariden Technologies (Acq. by Cisco)
Kevin Mahaffey
Founder SNR.VC, Founder Lookout, ex-YC Partner, investor in 9 unicorns
Investors and Advisors
Anurag Gupta
Founder/CEO, Shoreline, ex-VP at AWS
Andrew Miklas
Founder PagerDuty, Partner at YCombinator
Sanjay Beri
Co-founder and CEO, Netskope
Sumanth Sukumar
ex-VP of Infrastructure at Coinbase, Uber and Meta
Our Culture: Operating Principles
Team Oodle
Our team has built and launched world-class products like Rubrik Security Cloud, AWS S3, DynamoDB, and Snowhouse at Snowflake. The team has not only co-founded startups but also understands how to scale them.
Kiran Gollu
Co-founder & CEO
Kiran Gollu
Co-founder & CEO
Head of Cloud Platform Engineering at Rubrik, scaling $5M to $600M ARR. Cofounder/CEO of Neptune.io (YC-backed observability startup). Early Engineer at AWS S3, DynamoDB. Tennis and snowboarding fanatic.
"The score takes care of itself"
- Bill Walsh
Vijay Karthik
Co-founder & CTO
Vijay Karthik
Co-founder & CTO
Distributed databases expert at Rubrik, architected petabyte scale file system (also works on Object Storage) supporting 5K+ enterprise customers, tech lead of bidding and relevance engines (ML models) at Inmobi, a gold medalist at IIT Madras, and an avid online gaming enthusiast.
"Do or do not. There is no try"
- Yoda
Akhilesh Krishnan
Sr. Software Engineer
Akhilesh Krishnan
Sr. Software Engineer
Worked at Rubrik in both product and cloud platform engineering teams. Played an instrumental role in architecting the metadata sync engine between the data plane and control plane for Rubrik Security Cloud. An avid hiker - the world takes on a whole new dimension at higher altitudes.
"Just Do It."
- Nike
Cal Chan
Senior Product Designer
Cal Chan
Senior Product Designer
Founding designer at SignalFx (acquired by Splunk). Spent the last decade designing observability experiences for companies and developers.
"If everything is smooth and under control, then you’re not going fast enough."
- Andretti
Tao Wan
Staff Engineer
Tao Wan
Staff Engineer
Worked at Snowflake as a Staff Engineer/Tech Lead for the Snowhouse team (lakehouse for all Snowflake customer data). 15+ years of experience at Amazon, Roku, and EDA/chip design startups.
"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."
Jerry Adaji
Product Engineer
Jerry Adaji
Product Engineer
Worked at early-stage startups like PreQL. Loves delivering delightful experiences for customers. Self-taught Figma user. Fascinated by robotics and autonomous machines. MS in Business Analytics, BS in CS.
"A Setback is Nothing But a Setup for a Comeback."
- Willie Jolley
Sai Prameela Konduru
GTM Generalist
Sai Prameela Konduru
GTM Generalist
Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce, and a Security startup. She was also CEO of the BITS Pilani Alumni Association for 3 years comprising 100+ volunteers. Board member at BITSAA International and Nirmaan Non-profits. Passionate about Kuchipudi dance and driving.
"Be persistent and resilient in the face of challenges, for they are the building blocks of success."
- Ratan Tata
Gaurav Maheshwari
India Site Technical Lead
Gaurav Maheshwari
India Site Technical Lead
Principal Engineer/Tech Lead of Performance Engineering Group at Rubrik, prior experience in leading Cloud Data Protection at Rubrik and Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs. Poetry, theater, and cricket enthusiast.
"A body of clay, a mind full of play, a life of a moment - that's me"
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Sujeet Gholap
Sr. Software Engineer
Sujeet Gholap
Sr. Software Engineer
Wore many hats at Rubrik as an early engineer: security, dev-tools, core libraries, Rubrik Security Cloud. International Astrophysics Olympiad silver medalist.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"
- Issac Asimov
Anirud Samala
Sr. Product Engineer
Anirud Samala
Sr. Product Engineer
Led the development of Coinbase’s chatbots for hundreds of institutional clients (10M+ in AUM). At Rubrik and PayPal, he led major UI initiatives, mentored over 15 engineers.
"I’m a big fan of anime."
