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Director of Comms @astronomerio | formerly @confluentinc, @splunk and @HobartSoccer | Dangerously optimistic @ManUtd devotee
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2015
we built one of these. our data team is cracked
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How Astronomer built Kepler, an internal Slackbot and CLI tool that answers ad hoc data questions using LLMs, hybrid search, and code context.
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🏆 We are proud to be once again named by @Forbes and @StatistaCharts as one of America's Best Startup Employers in 2026! This award is a testament to our team staying true to our value of keeping customers first and providing the leading unified orchestration platform powered
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🎙We invest in teams we believe will drive their mission forward through any storm and @astronomerio did just that. CEO @petedejoy joined @ethanjb on Running Through Walls to talk resilience, leadership, and how their technology empowers data engineers: https://t.co/yVmYa4vS7D
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Carter Page, EVP of R&D at Astronomer, writes in @CIOonline today about why the real AI edge is about how well a model understands your business, fits into daily work and runs on your unique data. "The companies seeing real impact tend to make deliberate choices about what their
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Steven Hillion, SVP of Data and AI at Astronomer, went on the @awscloud for Software Companies Podcast to discuss how organizations like @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @lyft and @Uber rely on #ApacheAirflow to orchestrate AI and ML pipelines at scale. The episode also discusses how
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Carter Page, EVP of R&D at Astronomer, writes in @ComputerWeekly why the orchestration layer is the practical hygiene layer for data teams to reduce cloud spend. An orchestrator sees which pipelines run, when they run, what resources they consume and whether their outputs are
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🏆 Congratulations to the winners of our annual customer awards program, the Astronomer Data Excellence Awards! The Astronomer Data Excellence Awards recognize the innovative projects and talented individuals who are redefining what's possible with orchestration using Apache
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🔥 Upgrading to Airflow 3 is like evolving your Charmeleon into Charizard. Ash Berlin-Taylor, Director of Airflow Engineering at Astronomer and #ApacheAirflow PMC member, is speaking at the London Airflow @Meetup about the recent release of the State of Apache Airflow 2026
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❓ We asked 5,800+ data engineers how they're using Airflow. Find out what they had to say. Join us on February 5 to learn: → Latest trends in how teams are using Airflow today → Emerging use cases from the annual Airflow survey → How to make the most of Airflow for data
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📕 The State of #ApacheAirflow 2026 Report is here! Drawing on insights from 5,800+ data practitioners worldwide, this is the largest data engineering survey ever. - Airflow drives business: 89% of Airflow users expect to use Airflow for more revenue-generating or external
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😵💫 AI agents hallucinate without operational context. The fix? Use your data orchestration metadata as a "flight recorder" to ground AI in reality. @JulianLaneve, CTO at Astronomer, shares with @thenewstack why "treating orchestration telemetry as strategic, and exposing its
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🏆 We're proud to be recognized as a 2025 #Fast500 winner by @Deloitte as one of the fastest growing companies in North America! This award is a testament to the booming popularity of #ApacheAirflow and Astro amidst the rise of LLMs, as part of a major shift in how organizations
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After an extensive search process, we are excited to share that the Board of Directors has appointed @petedejoy as CEO of Astronomer, effective immediately. As CEO, Pete will also become a member of Astronomer’s Board of Directors. Pete, an 8-year Astronomer veteran and
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“The type of agents we are talking about here don’t know what data tables are reliable, they don’t know which data pipelines are breaking, who owns what, or how changes ripple through the system. Unsurprisingly, the orchestration layer turns out to be where all this crucial
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🔐 Introducing Astro Private Cloud! This release represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises deliver data orchestration at scale within their own infrastructure. For data platform teams managing hundreds of Airflow deployments across several teams or applications, Astro
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🤔 What is the best way to think about hybrid cloud application deployment? @JulianLaneve, CTO at Astronomer, shares his perspective on why smart data orchestration is the key with Runtime's @jenguevin: https://t.co/1A3V9T5wjg
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For companies with sensitive data requirements or substantial investments in data centers, a hybrid cloud strategy offers the best of both worlds — and a significant management challenge. Eight...
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A significant blocker keeping most organizations from unlocking the full value of AI is the lack of a context layer. What if switching between models and providers doesn't mean having to start from scratch, reminding AI tools who you are, or what your preferences are?
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Yesterday, @petedejoy jumped on with @tbpn to cover: - The early days of Astronomer and the rise of Apache Airflow - How Astronomer powers GenAI use cases @tryramp for everything from automating GTM workflows to fraud detection - Where we’re steering the business through 2025
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🚀 New short course: Orchestrate GenAI workflows with Apache Airflow Notebooks are great for prototyping, but what happens when your GenAI app needs to scale, run reliably, and recover from failure? In our new short course built in collaboration with @astronomerio, learn to
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2 Critical Dimensions of Data Engineering: Orchestration and Observability with @astronomerio — https://t.co/6wAufNZLBJ + Apache Airflow Best Practices — Practical Guide to Orchestrating Data Workflow with Apache Airflow: https://t.co/6NWnQ4JafT v/ @PacktDataML #ad
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