Where does Rob Skillington work?

Rob Skillington is Venture Partner at Black Nova VC and Co-Founder & CTO at Chronosphere.

What companies did Rob Skillington found?

Rob Skillington founded Chronosphere.

Rob Skillington

InvestorUnicorn founder

Venture Partner at Black Nova VC · Co-Founder & CTO at Chronosphere

New York, New York, United States

FoundedChronosphere$3.4B

About

Co-founder and former CTO of Chronosphere (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) and creator of M3DB; previously led observability at Uber.

Co-Founder & CTO at Chronosphere

Intro paths

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In turn, Rob can intro founders to Chronosphere's investors below.

Chronosphere's investors · 20

ACTAI VenturesSan Francisco AdditionNew York · $1M – $500M checks AntiSan Juan · $250K – $30M checks Basis Set VenturesMenlo Park · $1M – $3M checks Carbide VenturesPalo Alto Cardinia Ventures Founders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checks General AtlanticNew York · $10M – $1B checks General PartnershipSan Francisco · $1M – $30M checks Geodesic CapitalFoster City Glynn Capital ManagementMenlo Park GreatPoint VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $20M checks Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks GV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checks Kleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks Lux CapitalNew York · $100K – $100M checks Pathlight VenturesOld Bridge · $500K – $5M checks Rackhouse Venture Management LpSan Francisco · $250K checks Sierra VenturesSan Mateo · $10M checks Thursday VenturesBrandon

Co-founders at Chronosphere

MARTIN CHEN MAOExecutive Officer, Director

ROBERT JAMES SKILLINGTONExecutive Officer, Director

Martin MaoCo-Founder & CEO (now SVP, GM Observability, Palo Alto Networks)

Ashley AlexanderChief People Officer

Margaret DawsonGlobal Head of Marketing

Bill HinelineField Chief Technology Officer

Ian SmithChief of Staff to the CEO and Head of Strategy

Seong ParkGlobal Head of Customer Success and Solution Engineering

Experience

Palo Alto NetworksVP, Fellowcurrent2026 — present
ChronosphereCo-Founder/CTO (acquired by Palo Alto Networks)2019 — 2026
UberStaff Software Engineer2017 — 2019Greater New York City Area
UberEngineering Lead2014 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
GrouponEngineering Lead2013 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
Omny StudioFounding Engineer2012 — 2013Melbourne, Australia
MicrosoftEngineer Office 365 Directory Platform2011 — 2012Redmond, WA
MicrosoftIntern2010 — 2011Redmond, Washington, United States
University of MelbourneAcademic Tutor2010Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
JB InteractiveDeveloper2008 — 2010Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Education

University of MelbourneBachelor of Engineering with Honours, Software2006 — 2011

Skills & more

Software Engineering44Software Design27Web Applications27Python13Subversion9jQuery11Java7C#5C4Node.js7Mobile Applications14Git5

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ProgrammingiOS developmentJavaScriptUMLPHPAndroid DevelopmentWindows AzureRedisCoffeeScriptDependency InjectionAmazon EC2NUnit

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Colleagues at Black Nova VC

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Head of Talent at Black Nova VC

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Alok Kulkarni

CEO, Cyara at TiE Women Global Pitch Competition

Andrew Nash

Venture Partner at Black Nova VC

Anthony Woodward

Venture Partner at Black Nova VC

Bill Trestrail

Venture Partner at Black Nova VC

Cheryl Mack

Venture Partner at Black Nova VC

Chris Petzoldt

Venture Partner at Black Nova VC

Frequently asked questions

Where does Rob Skillington work?: Rob Skillington is Venture Partner at Black Nova VC and Co-Founder & CTO at Chronosphere.
What companies did Rob Skillington found?: Rob Skillington founded Chronosphere.

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