About
Galen Marchetti is Co-Founder and CEO of AstroBee, a data tooling company that connects AI to source systems to generate data pipelines for analytics, automated workflows, and agentic applications. He studied physics and computer science and spent five years at Palantir working in backend infrastructure before founding Kurtosis, an open-source devtool used to test blockchain systems; AstroBee is a rebrand of Kurtosis following its pivot into the data space.
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Edgar Gomes de AraujoFounder
Experience
- AstroBeeCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentNew York, NY
- Kurtosis TechnologiesCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2020 — present
- Palantir TechnologiesForward Deployed Engineer2015 — 2020Greater New York City Area
- Cornell UniversityStudent Researcher2014 — 2015Cornell University, Department of Computer Science
- Cornell UniversityStudent Researcher2013 — 2014Cornell University, Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics (LEPP)
- Cornell UniversityCS 3110 Functional Programming Teaching Assistant2013Cornell University, Department of Computer Science
- Cornell UniversityStudent Researcher2012Cornell University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
- SLAC National Accelerator LaboratorySummer Research Intern2013Stanford University
Skills & more
JavaUnixPythonScalaMatlabLaTeXC++GitHadoopJavaScriptData AnalysisResearch
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Apache SparkBig DataTypeScriptJavascript/Coffeescript/TypescriptLanguages English · Portuguese · Spanish
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- Who is Galen Marchetti?
- Galen Marchetti is Co-Founder and CEO of AstroBee, a data tooling company that connects AI to source systems to generate data pipelines for analytics, automated workflows, and agentic applications. He studied physics and computer science and spent five years at Palantir working in backend infrastructure before founding Kurtosis, an open-source devtool used to test blockchain systems; AstroBee is a rebrand of Kurtosis following its pivot into the data space.
- Where does Galen Marchetti work?
- Galen Marchetti is Founder of Astrobee.
- What companies did Galen Marchetti found?
- Galen Marchetti founded Astrobee.
- Where did Galen Marchetti go to school?
- Galen Marchetti studied at Cornell University (Bachelor's degree, Physics, Computer Science).
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