How it all started
The Akuity Story
Akuity was founded by Argo co-creators Hong Wang, Jesse Suen, and Alexander Matyushentsev. Hong, Jesse, and Alex were founding engineers at Applatix, which open-sourced the Argo project in 2017. After Applatix's acquisition by Intuit in 2018, Argo exploded in growth with the additions of Argo CD, Rollouts, and Events and was accepted as a CNCF incubating project just to graduate in 2022.
Left to right: Hong Wang, Jesse Suen, and Alexander Matyushentsev
The cornerstone
Founders
The team that started our journey
Hong Wang
CEO
Hong Wang is a founding member of Argo Project. Prior to founding Akuity, Hong was the Argo team manager at Intuit and built the control-plane used to manage hundreds of Kubernetes clusters and thousands of namespaces. Hong has extensive experience in distributed system projects ranging from storage to cloud infrastructure at Springpath, Cisco, and Yahoo. Hong received his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Jesse Suen
CTO
Jesse Suen is the co-creator and a project lead on the Argo project. Prior to founding Akuity, Jesse was a Principal Software Engineer and technical lead for the Argo team at Intuit, leading the design and architecture for Workflows, CD, and Rollouts. Jesse was a founding engineer at Applatix (acquired by Intuit), building a platform to help enterprises run containerized workloads in the public cloud. Jesse received his B.A. in Computer Science & Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley.
Alexander Matyushentsev
Chief Architect
Alexander Matyushentsev is the co-creator of the Argo project. Prior to founding Akuity, Alexander was a Principal Software Engineer at Intuit where he led the development of Argo CD. Alexander was one of the founding engineers at Applatix (acquired by Intuit), where he helped create Argo Workflows - the workflows engine for Kubernetes. Alexander is passionate about open-source, cloud-native infrastructure, and tools that increase developers’ productivity.
The backing
Investors and Advisors
We are proud to be working with some of the top minds and innovators in open source.
Stephen Augustus
Head of Open Source at Cisco
Shay Banon
Founder & CEO at Elastic
Kelsey Hightower
Principal Engineer at Google Cloud
Mallik Mahalingam
VP at Intuit
Ram Shriram
Board Member at Google
Greg Schott
Former CEO of Mulesoft
Jon Sakoda
Founder at Decibel Partners
Decibel is an independent venture capital firm created to push the conventional boundaries of early stage investing. Decibel combines the speed, agility, and independent risk-taking traditionally found in the best venture firms, while offering differentiated access to the scale, entrepreneurial talent, and deep customer relationships found in one of the largest tech companies in the world.
Nimay Mehta
Partner at Lead Edge Capital
Lead Edge leverages a group of over 500 strategic individual investors to add value to companies by connecting customers, partners, talent, and advisors to accelerate success. With $5B in capital, Lead Edge has supported phenomenal entrepreneurs to create enduring businesses.
