Kolton Andrus

Kolton Andrus

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Chief Executive Officer
Colorado, United States

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  • Gremlin
    Chief Executive Officer
    Gremlin
    Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)
  • Gremlin
    CTO and Founder
    Gremlin
    Feb 2022 - Jun 2025 (3 years 5 months)
  • Gremlin
    CEO and Founder
    Gremlin
    Jan 2016 - Feb 2022 (6 years 2 months)
    - Built the first iterations of the product by hand
    - Led the sales operation and closed initial deals
    - Developed the branding concepts and initial product-market fit
    - Raised funding from Amplify, Index, and Redpoint
  • Netflix
    Senior Software Engineer
    Netflix
    Sep 2013 - Jan 2016 (2 years 5 months)
    - Hyper-focused on fault tolerance, resilience, and performance
    - Managed the resolution of large scale production incidents
    - Maintained the existing Netflix API and built the next generation API
    - Designed 'FIT' -- Netflix's failure injection service testing
  • Amazon
    Software Development Manager
    Amazon
    May 2012 - Aug 2013 (1 year 4 months)
    - Optimized the Retail Website and built tools to identify regressions
    - Managed a team of engineers and analyzed potential improvements
    - Delivered several optimizations which reduced wait time for millions of customers
  • Amazon
    Software Development Engineer
    Amazon
    Jul 2009 - May 2012 (2 years 11 months)
    - Senior engineer on the Retail Website Availability and Latency teams
    - Responsible for the reliability and performance of all Amazon websites
    - Designed and implemented Amazon's Failure Injection Service
    - Managed the resolution of Retail Website incidents
    - Investigated and engineered solutions for complex failure modes
    - Worked across teams and systems to improve the customer experience
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    Software Engineer
    Mindshare Technologies
    May 2007 - Jul 2009 (2 years 3 months)
    - Responsible for hundreds of thousands of reports nightly
    - Wrote a system to analyze a customer’s experience in real time
    - Implemented custom reporting for the McDonald’s pilot
    - Provided a consistent user experience across web and PDF views
  • M
    Software Engineer
    Meridias Capital
    Jun 2005 - May 2007 (2 years)
    - Created a compliance rules engine for validating processed loans
    - Migrated the mortgage processing system from Java Swing to a web interface
    - Automated flood certification and real-time interest rate collection
    - Designed and implemented commission calculation logic
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  • University of Utah
    MS, Computer Science
    University of Utah
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2007 (2 years 1 month)
  • University of Utah
    BS, Computer Science
    University of Utah
    Jan 2001 - Jan 2005 (4 years 1 month)
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    Awards verified_user 0% verified
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      College of Engineering Clyde Christensen Scholarship
      Issued by University of Utah
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