Kolton Andrus

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Kolton Andrus is the founder and CEO of Gremlin Inc., which provides ‘Failure as a Service’ to help companies build more resilient systems. Previously he was a Chaos Engineer at Netflix improving streaming reliability and operating the Edge services. He designed and built F.I.T., Netflix’s failure injection service. Prior he improved the performance and reliability of the Amazon Retail website. In both companies he has served as a ‘Call Leader’, managing the resolution of company wide incidents. Kolton is passionate about building resilient systems, as it lets him break things for fun and profit.

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Breaking Things on Purpose