Kolton Andrus

CEO

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Gremlin

Kolton Andrus is the CEO and founder of Gremlin, the world's first Reliability and Chaos Engineering platform, helping companies avoid outages and build more resilient systems. Prior, he focused on building and operating reliable systems at Netflix and Amazon. At all companies, he has managed systems at scale, company-wide incidents, and built reliability programs and platforms.

Featured Blogs

Chaos Conference 2018: A Day of Chaos Engineering, Resilient Systems, and Antifragility

March 28, 2018

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1 min read

We’re excited to announce the first ever Chaos Conference on September 28th at the Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco. Join us for a full day of Chaos Engineering, good food, and drinks on the house at #ChaosConf2018.

Introducing Gremlin: Orchestrating Chaos

December 12, 2017

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2 min read

Today is an exciting day for our team at Gremlin. After nearly two years in the making, we're proud to share that Gremlin's "Reliability as a Service" is publicly available! We're also excited to announce our $7.5M Series A funding, led by Index Ventures and Amplify Partners, as well as several customers leveraging Gremlin to increase their system's reliability, including Twilio, Expedia, Confluent, and Remind.

Why CTOs And CIOs Should Care More About The Cost Of Downtime

January 21, 2019

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2 min read

Originally published on Forbes.com.

Introducing Scenarios to prepare for real-world outages

September 26, 2019

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3 min read

Since 2017, Gremlin has offered a platform to run Chaos Engineering experiments, enabling our customers to increase the reliability of their applications. Gremlin provides a variety of different failure modes across state, resource, network, and application to test your reliability. However until now, while running a single Chaos Engineering attack has been simple, we’ve received many customer requests to simplify planning and tracking an experiment to simulate a real-world outage.

How To prepare for online disasters remotely

April 28, 2020

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4 min read

This article was originally published on TechCrunch.

Announcing Chaos Conf 2020 (online): Be prepared for moments that matter

July 16, 2020

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2 min read

We’re excited to announce the third annual Chaos Conf! Given the events with Covid-19 this year, we will be holding this event fully online for the health and safety of attendees. The unforeseen impact of this virus on our lives, our businesses, and our software highlights the importance of preparing for the unexpected. Our theme for this year highlights this: