Pulumi Revenue & Funding (2024)

Joe Duffy

CEO

Founder and CEO of Pulumi, a startup in Seattle. Pulumi's cloud engineering platform helps developers and infrastructure teams collaborate to build, ship, and manage modern cloud applications and infrastructure. Pulumi is open source, with an easy-to-use SaaS for teams. Before Pulumi, he was Director of Technical Strategy and Engineering at Microsoft, spanning developer and cloud tools, programming languages, and advanced technologies. He created the Compiler and Language Group to bring together all language, IDE, compiler, and static analysis products, across many languages (C++, C#, Visual Basic, F#), platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android), and architectures (x86, x64, ARM32, ARM64). In addition to building and managing a world-class team, he remained hands-on with product strategy, architecture, quality, and engineering. In this role, he led efforts to drive more open source across Microsoft, including stewarding policies and initiating the effort and building the team to open source .NET and take it cross-platform. He was previously Architect and Development Manager for a research operating system, Midori, and created its developer platform and its programming language. he launched, built, and led a team that delivered .NET concurrency, parallel, and asynchronous programming models, advanced safe systems programming in Windows, and rearchitected key aspects Microsoft's internal engineering systems, including source control, package management, and better internal collaboration. He have been a software professional for over 20 years and have over 90 patents. He have written 2 books and enjoy speaking at conferences. His interests include developer tools, of course, but he love all technologies, particularly cloud and distributed computing. Nothing brings him more joy than building amazing teams to create innovative technologies together that solve impactful customer problems.