Our Board of Directors has concluded its CEO search and I’m humbled and proud to have been picked to lead Astronomer as its next CEO.
In many ways, Astronomer feels like a part of my identity – I grew up at this company, starting 8.5 years ago with an incredible team of people spending our days preaching the good word of Apache Airflow. It’s been the journey of a lifetime since, fueled by an incredible team of folks who have joined the fray and helped drive Astronomer to the next level. While much has changed, much has stayed the same – as AI fundamentally transforms how we all interact with and derive value from data, we remain committed to raising the ceiling for data engineers.
I did some math – I’m now in my 34th fiscal quarter working on Astronomer. I must admit, this one was a bit different from the rest. We kicked things off navigating a moment of uncertainty for the company, but the team here remained unequivocally committed to focusing on our customers, our product, and each other.
Thanks to incredible execution across every single department, this wound up becoming the biggest bookings quarter in Astronomer’s history.
A few highlights that led us to such an outstanding result:
- A wave of recent major product updates our product and engineering teams have been shipping. The work data engineers do is critical at every organization, and our team is building incredible things to help them work faster and smarter:
- Astro IDE - Our code agent and editor to help data engineers ship 10x faster, moving from prompt, to pipeline, to sandboxes for testing and deployment in seconds.
- Astro Private Cloud - Brings enterprise-grade security, unified governance, and proven scalability to on-prem environments.
- Apache Airflow 3.1 - Improved support for AI workflows, a new plugins interface, human-in-the-loop capabilities, and synchronous DAG execution.
- World-class execution from our GTM team, prioritizing customer value and delivering results at every turn for organizations like Ramp, Autodesk, Northern Trust, and Texas Rangers Baseball Club.
- A community that’s only continuing to pick up steam: With 43,000+ GitHub stars, Apache Airflow is one of the most popular Apache projects of all time. It was incredible hearing from teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub, and more at the recent Airflow Summit – orchestration is the backbone to data and AI, and we’re privileged to serve such an incredible community of data engineers.
- A move into our new and improved NYC HQ! Vibes in the new space are great. Shoot me a note if you are ever in Flatiron and want to stop by or cowork!
Much work to be done, but the future here at Astronomer is bright.
And now, back to work…
After an extensive search process, we are excited to share that the Board of Directors has appointed Pete DeJoy 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 co-founder, most recently served as Chief Product Officer before taking over as interim CEO in July.
The work of data engineers is more important than ever, and Astronomer remains focused on continuing that success and delivering game-changing results to our customers.
