Duckbill builds Skyway, a consumption-first cloud cost management platform that recalculates billing from scratch and solves the entire cost management domain for large enterprises.
Duckbill builds Skyway, a consumption-first cloud cost management platform that recalculates billing from scratch and solves the entire cost management domain for large enterprises.
Total raised
$7.8M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Mike Julian
Co-founded Duckbill in February 2019 with Corey Quinn. Transitioned into cloud cost consulting from a DevOps/infrastructure background. Author of O'Reilly's Practical Monitoring, previously wrote the Monitoring Weekly newsletter and hosted the Real World DevOps podcast.
LinkedInEric Pullen
Joined Duckbill in July 2024 after nearly a decade at AWS, where he held roles as Cloud Infrastructure Architect (2015–2019), Performance Lead for Well-Architected (2019–2021), and Senior Solutions Architect focused on Healthcare & Life Sciences (2021–2022). Also served as Adjunct Professor at University of Louisville.
LinkedInMike Neff
Product and design leader specializing in complex, technical workflows. Leads Duckbill's product and UX direction for the Skyway platform.
LinkedInCorey Quinn
Widely known in the AWS community for sharp, often comedic commentary on cloud pricing. Hosts the Screaming in the Cloud and AWS Morning Brief podcasts, and curates Last Week in AWS newsletter. AWS has sought Duckbill's input on new features. Primary public voice for the company.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
Joshua Buss
24+ years in general computing; joined Duckbill's engineering leadership in March 2025. Previously built cost engineering infrastructure at Confluent for two years, including fine-grained cost modeling systems. Also held roles at Pinecone building early vector database infrastructure and at Citadel LLC in data and cloud engineering.
LinkedInJim Moses
Former AWS private pricing negotiator, bringing insider knowledge of AWS contract terms and EDP/PPA negotiation dynamics to Duckbill's enterprise clients.
Charles Qian
Listed on Duckbill's About page as part of the core team.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
