Necessity is the mother of invention

In 2009, the founders of Giant Swarm weren’t the founders of Giant Swarm. They were the founders of Adcloud, a real-time data-driven ad exchange. Fast-forward to 2011 and they were already competing with the likes of Google servicing more than 10k transactions per second. Operating at this scale demanded that they move fast and innovate even faster. To achieve this they did something quite unconventional at the time — they adopted microservices architecture.

Creating solutions for the future

Pioneering this path paid off, but soon they were quickly outgrowing different PaaS solutions while still seeking the freedom needed for their use-case. They searched for a tried-and-tested, flexible solution but this was unsuccessful simply because no solution on the market existed — unless they created one. And so, that’s exactly what they decided to do: build and maintain microservices infrastructure themselves.

Turning challenges into opportunities

However, the team became painfully aware of how much time and energy was needed to do this. With at least ⅓ of the engineers’ workday being spent on just building and maintaining the infrastructure, it was obvious that while the solution might be right, the approach was not sustainable. This was especially true since their core business remained something other than this ever-increasing and complex task.

But this raised the question; what if they used their experience to solve this problem for other companies?

The Giant Swarm difference

The common denominator with all the ventures they had, also happens to still be one of the main differentiators of Giant Swarm: rapid innovation. Founded in 2014, Giant Swarm is the cumulation of all their best knowledge related to building and running infrastructure along with the actual applications. They started Giant Swarm to help companies focus on developing their products rather than being distracted by the mammoth task of managing the underlying cloud-native infrastructure.

With Giant Swarm, they built the solution to the problems they encountered with their former venture Adcloud, and because they had firsthand experience, there were certain non-negotiables that defined their approach.

Team Atlas 🗺️

Team Atlas’ mission is to provide observability solutions on top of Kubernetes.

Théo Brigitte

Platform Engineer

Michael Gliwinski

Platform Engineer

Quentin Bisson

Solution Architect

Snizhana Dynnyk

Product Owner

Snizhana Dynnyk

Product Owner

Joe Salisbury

Product Owner

Joe Salisbury

Platform Architect

Ross Fairbanks

Platform Engineer

Łukasz Piątkowski

Kubernetes Platform Architect

Łukasz Piątkowski

Kubernetes Platform Architect

Paweł Kopiczko

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Jakub Soboń

Platform Engineer

Adrian Barsan

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Christian Bianchi

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Jose Armesto

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Nikola Prokopić

Platform Engineer

Václav Rozsypalek

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Antonia von den Driesch

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Nick Jüttner

Platform Engineer

Alex Dabija

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Tobias Bradtke

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Cedric Kaufmann

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Gerald Pape

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Oshrat Nir

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Timo Derstappen

Co-Founder and CTO

Timo Derstappen

Co-Founder and CTO

Fernando Ripoll

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Marian Steinbach

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Marcel Müller

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Zach Stone

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Eric Graf

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Henning Lange

Co-Founder and CEO

Henning Lange

Co-Founder and CEO

Franz Schubert

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Ben Rain

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Salvatore Mazzarino

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Thomas Fussell

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Yulia Nedyalkova

Platform Engineer

Simon Weald

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Simon Weald

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Thea Hüttenberger

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Anna Löw

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Mirco Hellekes

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Anna van Dillen

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Oliver Thylmann

Co-Founder and CCO

Oliver Thylmann

Co-Founder and CCO

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Marcus Noble

Platform Engineer

Joshua Olson - Kerrigan

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Pau Roselló Van Schoor

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Tobiasz Kukawka

Solution Engineer

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Cornelius Keller

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