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Kolton Andrus

Kolton is the co-founder and CEO of Gremlin. Previously, he was a senior software engineer at Netflix focused on improving the reliability and resilience of the company’s core streaming technologies. While at Netflix, Kolton was a part of the Edge services team, and spent time developing the next-generation Netflix API, and pioneered F.I.T., Netflix’s failure injection service. Prior to Netflix, Kolton was a senior engineer at Amazon, working on performance and reliability of the company's Retail website. At both companies, he served as a ‘Call Leader,’ managing the resolution of companywide incidents.

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Three Truths About AI SRE

The current enthusiasm for AI in Site Reliability Engineering (AI SRE) is well-founded. We are seeing incredible advancements in agents that can ingest alerts, parse logs, and propose rapid solutions to outages. They are becoming increasingly confident when it comes to suggesting bug fixes, patching vulnerabilities, and helping coordinate around incidents. But there is a […]

Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min

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Why Reliability Guardrails Are Needed in Every AI Coding Pipeline

We’re in the middle of a reliability reckoning. Thanks to AI, companies are shipping code much faster than before. But if there’s anything to learn from the surge in high-profile outages over the last couple of years, it’s that with more code comes more reliability risks. And when those risks do lead to an outage, […]

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