We're redefining data replication for the modern era
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Where it all began
Hi, I’m Robin, Co-Founder and CTO of Artie. At 22, I built my first large-scale ingestion pipeline while working at a startup in San Francisco. We processed billions of events daily and had to keep everything lean to save time and money—a challenge that shaped my approach to data pipelines
Building foundations
After the startup was acquired by Zendesk, I helped lay the foundation for their CRM offering. We relied heavily on Change Data Capture (CDC) and Kafka, which became integral to Zendesk’s architecture. Zendesk invested in CDC and created Maxwell, an open-source CDC tool for MySQL binlogs, now widely used across the industry
A growing frustration
At a real estate tech startup, I saw firsthand how delays in data ingestion and processing errors hindered productivity. These inefficiencies didn’t just frustrate us—it was clear they were driving up operational costs and holding us back from creating truly powerful data products. That’s when it hit me: unreliable pipelines weren’t just an annoyance; they were a bottleneck for innovation
Taking matters into my own hands
Determined to tackle these challenges, I set out to build my own CDC-based data replication solution. The MVP turned out to be a game-changer, but it quickly exposed the real complexity that every company wrestles with—maintaining consistency, adapting to schema changes, supporting diverse data types, managing stateful datasets, and so much more
Growing the vision
To turn this vision into reality, I teamed up with Jacqueline, my Co-Founder, who took charge of company building and go-to-market strategy while I focused on the product. Together, we joined Y Combinator, onboarded dozens of customers, and received the support of world-class investors
Artie today
Today, we’re more committed than ever to delivering the fastest and most reliable database replication solution. As Joe Reis puts it, “The frequency of ingestion sets a ceiling on downstream frequency.” With Artie, customers are breaking through that ceiling, unlocking new workloads directly from their data warehouses
People behind the pipelines
At Artie, we’re all about playing the long game—building products customers will love for years and a team that makes us wonder how we ever got so lucky. We prioritize sustainability over shortcuts, freedom over micromanagement, and results over fluff
With a no-ego culture, a bias for action, and a commitment to getting 1% better every day, you’ve got a team that’s not just solving tough problems together but having fun doing it. Join us—whether as a customer or a teammate—and let’s create something extraordinary
