Read about Chronosphere’s origin story and learn more about our vision, mission, leadership and investors.
Our Company and Vision
Read about Chronosphere’s origin story and learn more about our vision, mission, leadership and investors.
Chronosphere is the only observability platform that puts you back in control by taming rampant data growth and cloud native complexity, delivering increased business confidence. Chronosphere is backed by venture capital investors Greylock, Lux Capital, General Atlantic, Addition, and Founders Fund.
The team is distributed, with major hubs in New York, Seattle and Vilnius.
Our Vision and Mission
Vision
Our vision is to accelerate global innovation by providing organizations with the building blocks to achieve higher operational excellence.
Mission
Our mission is to guide modern businesses to leverage observability as an essential competitive advantage.
The Story So Far
The founders and engineers architected, developed, and scaled Uber’s monitoring platform. As the company’s cloud native journey began and adoption of microservices and container based infrastructure grew, it became obvious that no solution, open source or vendored, was scalable, reliable or cost efficient enough.
The answer was to build from within, with a focus on tackling the unique challenges cloud native applications created for monitoring. The outcome was the metrics engine – M3 – which was developed in open source from day one to ensure it would not only solve the problem for a single company, but help the broader community as well.
M3 scaled to power one of the largest production monitoring use cases in the world, ingesting billions of data points per second and serving hundreds of thousands of dashboards and alerts. It was also adopted by other household brands such as Walmart, FedEx, and Comcast.
As the open source community grew, so did the next layer of questions from large organizations and fast growing tech companies that needed more than what the open source project had to offer.
It only felt right to take this as an opportunity to build upon the technology and the experience gained to go on a mission to create the world’s most scalable, reliable, and customizable cloud monitoring solution for the rest of the companies that are embarking on their cloud native journeys.
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Martin Mao is the co-founder and CEO of Chronosphere. He was previously at Uber, where he led the development and SRE teams that created and operated M3. Prior to that, he was a technical lead on the EC2 team at AWS and has also worked for Microsoft and Google. He and his family are based in our Seattle hub and he enjoys playing soccer and eating meat pies in his spare time.
Rob Skillington
CTO / Co-Founder
Rob Skillington
CTO / Co-Founder
Rob Skillington is the co-founder and CTO of Chronosphere. He was previously at Uber, where he was the technical lead of the Observability team and creator of M3DB, the time series database at the core of M3. He has worked in both large engineering organizations such as Microsoft and Groupon and a handful of startups. He and his family are based in NYC where he mainly spends weekends exploring all of New York’s playgrounds and also following his wife’s jazz adventures.
Matt Mihic
Global Head of Engineering
Matt Mihic
Global Head of Engineering
Matt Mihic is the Head of Engineering at Chronosphere, where he’s responsible for ensuring the team is building the right thing, in the right way, with the right support. Before Chronosphere, he led engineering at Okta, Square, and Uber, bringing them through their early and hyper growth phases. He joined Chronosphere having previously built the observability organization at Uber, where he experienced first-hand the business needs that led to M3. Outside of work, he spends his time cooking, dog fostering, and enjoying life in New York.
Jeff Cobb
Global Head of Product & Design
Jeff Cobb
Global Head of Product & Design
Jeff Cobb is Head of Product. He listens to Chronosphere’s users, focuses product priorities, and guides us toward lovable software. Previously Jeff built customer-development-driven product teams for Qumulo and LiveStories. At APM pioneer Wily Technology, Jeff was the architect of the flagship product Introscope. Jeff is a Little League umpire, a fly fisherman, and a bass singer.
Gabriela Serret-Campos
Global Head of People
Gabriela Serret-Campos
Global Head of People
Gabriela Serret-Campos is responsible for supporting people through the entire employee life cycle across People, Talent and Operations. Gabriela has focused her career on connecting people to purpose in order to strategically and efficiently scale organizations. Previous to Chronosphere, she was SVP of People Operations at Drizly and saw them through 5x growth and 1B+ acquisition by Uber. Previous to this, Gabriela ran a boutique leadership development company which focused on post series B and series C hyper-growth companies to support the growth and development of Boston’s top talent. In her personal time, Gabriela enjoys spending time outdoors in the greater Boston area, cooking and when able traveling with her two children.
Scott Mersy
Global Head of Marketing
Scott Mersy
Global Head of Marketing
Scott Mersy joins the company with over two decades of marketing leadership experience at prominent SaaS companies including ServiceNow and Webex, and most recently serving as Chief Marketing Officer at BigID. Scott will be responsible for leading Chronosphere’s marketing strategy, with plans to globalize the company’s reach to drive revenue.
Bryan Dell
Global Head of Revenue
Bryan Dell
Global Head of Revenue
Bryan Dell is responsible for shaping, leading, and scaling Chronosphere’s go-to-market strategy including Sales, Sales Engineering, Revenue Operations, Field CTOs, and Global Alliances. Prior to joining Chronosphere, Dell was the Chief Revenue Officer of BigPanda, and held a number of sales leadership roles at hyper-growth companies including Medallia, AppDynamics, and Lacework. Dell’s initial focus will be on continuing to expand the company’s customer base, ensuring a world-class customer experience from pre to post-sales engagement, and recruiting top talent to expand the team.
Adrian Seet
Global Head of Finance
Adrian Seet
Global Head of Finance
Adrian Seet is responsible for leading Chronosphere’s Finance and Accounting teams to deliver business insights to guide strategic decision making. Prior to Chronosphere, Adrian held various positions with high-growth SaaS companies such as Sumo Logic, CommerceIQ and Shogun Labs. Adrian started his finance career as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley, spending time in New York and Hong Kong.
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