Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow, announced that Carter Page has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Research and Development. In this role, Page will lead Astronomer’s global Research and Development organization responsible for bringing DataOps capabilities to market, reporting directly to Astronomer’s CEO, Andy Byron.
“Carter’s deep technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and proven track record of scaling high-performing engineering teams make him the ideal fit to lead our R&D organization,” said Andy Byron, CEO, Astronomer. “His breadth of experience across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and data platforms at massive names like Two Sigma and Google will enable us to accelerate innovation and bring our unified DataOps platform to even more customers.”
Page joins Astronomer from Two Sigma, where he served as Managing Director and Head of Data Engineering. During his tenure, he led a global engineering organization where he oversaw exponential growth in the size and complexity of the company’s data pipelines. At Google, Page was the New York City site lead for the company’s cloud native databases and the founder and leader of Cloud Bigtable – known for its speed and massive scalability. While at Google, Page grew Cloud Bigtable from inception to one of the largest revenue products at Google Cloud, powering companies like YouTube, Spotify, and Credit Karma. He left Google for Two Sigma in order to better understand the business challenges facing modern enterprises. His recognition that the data orchestration layer is the lynchpin of successful AI systems ultimately led him to Astronomer.
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“Top engineering talent is drawn to opportunities to build things that change the way the world works,” said Carter Page, EVP of R&D, Astronomer. “I have built world-class services and business applications and understand that the complexity and size of data needs is growing exponentially inside of companies across every industry. Given the breadth of the point solutions in the data space, there is a deep need to choreograph these capabilities in new ways to meet the growing challenges. The unified DataOps platform we are building at Astronomer will fix this issue for every business and unlock their ability to build data products of the future.”
Page joins Astronomer at a time of tremendous momentum for both the company and Airflow. In FY25 Astronomer saw:
- 100% year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR)
- Over 130% net dollar retention (NDR) rate
- Over 2.6 billion successful task runs on Astro
- The launch of Astro Observe, adding data observability and cost optimization to the Astro DataOps platform
The recently-released 2025 State of Airflow Report clearly showed that Airflow is being used for more business-critical and customer-facing use cases such as AI and MLOps, compliance, and revenue-driving data products. At the same time, Airflow has experienced significant growth in recent years with:
- Tremendous increase in popularity: There were more Airflow downloads in 2024 than all previous years combined.
- A growing contributor community: Airflow has 3,000+ Airflow contributors, the most contributors among all Apache Software Foundation open source projects, including others like Apache Kafka® and Apache Spark®.
- Exponential enterprise adoption: 80K+ organizations are currently using Airflow, compared to 25K+ in 2020.
All of this comes ahead of the anticipated launch of Airflow 3.0 in the coming weeks, the most significant release in project history.
Source: PRNewswire