#215 Matt Fornaciari - Co-Founder & CTO at Gremlin

Today we are talking to Matt, the CTO and Co-Founder of Gremlin. And we discuss what the day was like when he decided to found his own company, how Gremlin is using Chaos Engineering to make systems more resilient, and why introspection is the key to evolution.

All of this, right here, right now on the Modern CTO Podcast!

About Matt:

Matt started experimenting with computers as a child largely due to an intense aversion to repeating tasks manually. This experimentation quickly blossomed into a passion and after a formal education, into a career which began with making Amazon.com more reliable. Since then Matt has decided to take what he learned at Amazon.com and apply it to the internet at large, allowing on-call engineers everywhere to rest more easily.

Previously, he was a Senior Platform Engineer at Salesforce, where he led the charge to bolster the experience of viewing and editing each and every record. Before that he improved the reliability and customer experience of the Amazon Retail website, where he founded the ’Fatals‘ team which reduced the number of website errors by half in its first year.

About Gremlin:

Downtime is expensive and can hurt your brand. Gremlin provides engineers with the framework to safely, securely, and easily simulate real outages with an ever-growing library of attacks. Turn failure into resilience with chaos engineering