Astronomer builds and maintains Astro, a unified data orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow, designed for data teams running mission-critical analytics, AI, and data engineering workloads. More than 900 enterprises rely on Astro to build and operate their data pipelines at scale.
Astronomer's work is closely tied to Apache Airflow, the open-source orchestration tool it has helped shape since 2018. The company's engineers hold 18 of the project's top committer seats and 10 Project Management Committee (PMC) positions, and have contributed over 3,200 commits to the codebase. Astronomer has driven 100% of Apache Airflow's releases. The project itself is widely adopted, recording 324 million annual downloads, 44,000+ GitHub stars, and contributions from more than 3,600 developers.
Beyond its platform, Astronomer runs Astronomer Academy, an educational offering covering Apache Airflow and data orchestration concepts that has reached 57,000 students to date.
The company operates across the enterprise data segment, serving teams working in analytics, AI, and machine learning - domains where reliable, scalable pipeline orchestration is a foundational requirement.