About Meltano

Meltano is built by a global community united by a shared mission to unlock data, fuel creativity, and move innovation forward together.

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Meltano's Mission

Our mission is to remove the barriers between teams and the data they depend on. To make it accessible, trusted, and understood at every stage of growth. No unnecessary complexity. No unfair cost. No excuses.

Meltano's Story

Aaron Phethean spent two decades building the data infrastructure that runs behind some of the world’s most-used software. Integration engines, data access layers, marketplace platforms. Code that more than a billion people rely on, across thousands of organisations, including 41 of the top 50 global banks. The kind of work that’s invisible when it works and catastrophic when it doesn’t.

Through all of that, one thing kept coming up. The same problem, in different versions, in every company he worked with: data was everywhere, but the people who needed it couldn’t get to it. Not because the technology didn’t exist, but because the tools around it were too expensive, too complicated, or too locked down to be useful to anyone outside a specialist team.

In 2019, Aaron founded Matatika to fix that. The idea was straightforward: build a platform that makes data accessible, trusted, and understood by the people who actually need it. Not just data engineers. Everyone. From analysts building models to leadership making decisions, the goal was the same. Remove the barriers. Reduce the cost. Make it work.

Matatika grew steadily, earning a reputation for doing the hard, unglamorous work of data integration properly. Hands-on support. Honest pricing. Solutions that actually solved the problem instead of creating three new ones. Customers didn’t just use the platform. They relied on it.

Then came Meltano.

Meltano had built something remarkable: the largest open source connector library in the world, a thriving community of over 5,500 data professionals, and a developer-first approach to data integration that had earned genuine loyalty. What it needed was the commercial platform, the operational rigour, and the leadership to turn that community into a company that could serve teams at every scale.

Aaron saw the fit immediately. Matatika’s platform expertise and Meltano’s open source ecosystem weren’t competing visions. They were two halves of the same one. In 2026, the two came together under the Meltano name, combining Matatika’s capability with Meltano’s community, connectors, and credibility.

Today, Meltano is one company with one mission: to make data accessible, trusted, and understood by every team that depends on it, at every stage of growth. No unnecessary complexity. No unfair cost. No barriers between your people and the decisions they need to make.

We’re a seed-funded team with customers across retail, media, marketing, logistics, and beyond. We’re growing fast, shipping constantly, and building toward something that matters. The story is still being written, and the best chapters are ahead of us.

Meltano's core values
are as follows

Believe in better

We hold ourselves to a high standard and we're honest when we fall short. Everything we build is a work in progress. We take responsibility for our mistakes, learn from them, and move forward together. Being a good company means doing good for our customers, our community, and the people we work with.

Together we thrive

We believe that more and diverse voices lead to better results, that the best tools are built in close collaboration with their users, that open source software is a force for good, and are on a mission to unlock data and spark creativity in everyone – paying customer or not.

Progress over perfection

We work in small steps, ship early, and learn from what we find. Mistakes are not failures they are how we get better. Critical feedback is welcomed, not avoided. We are building for the long term, which means investing in our people, our community, and our products with patience and purpose not chasing short-term wins at the expense of what matters.

Matatika in Practice

Matatika means honest, fair, equitable, and upright. It is not just our name, it is our expectation of ourselves. We do the right thing even when it is inconvenient. We are transparent about what we do well and equally clear about what we do not. We say what we mean, own our decisions, and treat customers, colleagues, and community with the same standard of fairness. Trust is not built through positioning. It is built through consistent action. That is the bar we hold ourselves to.

Meet the team

Built by a global community of engineers and contributors, Meltano exists because we believe data work is better when it is open, collaborative, and built together.