About Meltano

Meltano's all-remote team and community of thousands are on a mission to accelerate innovation by unlocking data and sparking creativity

Meltano's Mission

Our mission is to help data engineers build their data platforms like software projects, to achieve our vision of accelerating innovation by unlocking data and sparking creativity.

Meltano unlocks software development workflows for data movement and gives data engineers complete control and visibility of their pipelines, delivering unparalleled efficiency and confidence in every change. With Meltano, data teams can fetch data from anywhere, send data anywhere, and transform their data their way.

To support this model, Meltano offers the largest connector library in the world and continues to be committed to open source. Meltano is used today by thousands of organizations, including GitLab, HackerOne, Netlify, Remote.com and Zapier. Join our community on Slack and GitHub to help make data engineering fun again.

As an early engineer at GitLab, I saw first-hand the massive efficiency and confidence that open source and DevOps bring to software teams. Now we’re unlocking these advantages for data teams that used to have to rely on black box UIs and custom scripts, and make changes live without version control or testing.

Douwe Maan, Founder & CEO

Meltano's Story

While at GitLab, Meltano founders Douwe Maan and Taylor Murphy realized that while software teams had gained massive efficiency and confidence through the adoption of open source and DevOps, many data teams still relied on black box UIs and custom scripts, making changes live without version control or testing.

They knew that as an organization’s reliance on its data platform grows, it’s crucial to be able to respond quickly to evolving needs and have full confidence in the results.
Data engineers needed a tool that brought these software development tools, workflows, and best practices to every part of their data platform.

With a growing open source community of over 3,500, they built Meltano. With a workflow built around Git, YAML, and a CLI, and a library of 600+ open source connectors, Meltano gives data engineers and analysts complete control and visibility of their pipelines, delivering unparalleled efficiency and confidence in every change.

Meltano's core values
are as follows

Believe in better

Believe in better

We have high aspirations and the drive to exceed them, consider everything a “work in progress”, strive to be a net-positive company that makes net-positive actions, and are accountable for our mistakes and focus on learning from them and moving forward together.

Together we thrive

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

Progress over perfection

We work in small iterations so we can add value quickly, and take a better-informed next step based on feedback. We see mistakes as essential to progress, and critical feedback as valuable learning opportunities. We maintain a measured mindset to continue to grow for years to come, and invest in our people, community, and products for the long term.

Kindness is key

Kindness is key

We recognize that everyone is trying their best and it’s human to occasionally fall short. We bring empathy, humility, trust, honesty, and an assumption of good faith to all of our interactions. We consider our people our most valuable asset, treat them with kindness and respect, and believe that happy and well-rested employees do the best work.

Learn more about how we work behind the scenes in our company handbook

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Meet the team

Meltano is built by an all-remote team spread over 5 countries and a community of contributors around the world.

Braedon Leonard
Braedon Leonard

Ottawa, ON, Canada 🇨🇦

Senior Software Engineer

Cody Hanson
Cody Hanson

Chicago, IL, USA 🇺🇸

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Douwe Maan
Douwe Maan

Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽

Founder & CEO

Edgar Ramírez Mondragón
Edgar Ramírez Mondragón

Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽

senior software engineer

Ken Payne
Ken Payne

London, UK 🇬🇧

senior software engineer

Leo Roese
Leo Roese

Austin, TX, USA 🇺🇸

Software Engineer

Melissa Greenbaum
Melissa Greenbaum

Lexington, SC, USA 🇺🇸

staff platform & reliability engineer

Pat Nadolny
Pat Nadolny

New York City, NY, USA 🇺🇸

senior data engineer

Samantha Kanak
Samantha Kanak

Whitefish, MT, USA 🇺🇸

Chief of Staff

Sven Balnojan, PhD
Sven Balnojan, PhD

Leipzig, Germany 🇩🇪

SENIOR DATAOPS EVANGELIST

Taylor A Murphy, PhD
Taylor A Murphy, PhD

Arlington, TX, USA 🇺🇸

co-founder & cpo

Will Da Silva
Will Da Silva

Ottawa, ON, Canada 🇨🇦

Staff Software Engineer

Our investors

Meltano is backed by the following VC firms as well as dozens of angel investors from the data and software engineering space.