How we got here
The team behind KernelRun spent years managing cloud infrastructure at high-growth companies. We saw the same problem everywhere: cloud costs were climbing fast, nobody had a clear picture of why, and the native tools from cloud providers were either too narrow or required a full-time analyst to interpret.
In 2022, David Okonkwo and a small group of infrastructure engineers decided to build something better. Not another cost reporting dashboard — something that actually reduced spend automatically, without requiring engineers to babysit schedules or write custom automation for every environment change.
We spent the first year building for ourselves and a handful of design partners. By mid-2023 we had a product worth putting in front of real teams. Today, KernelRun monitors over 500,000 resources across 200+ engineering organizations.
