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Gareth Watts

Gareth Watts

Co-founder & CTO at Atolio — enterprise search and knowledge

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Nashville, Tennessee
Joined October 2025
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Seasoned engineering leader focused on search, observability, and building scalable backend systems. Gareth’s career spans senior engineering roles at Splunk and SourceForge followed by leadership at Anki and co-founding Atolio, where he drives the technical vision for an enterprise knowledge/search product. atolio+2
Open-source practitioner and tooling author — maintains several public projects (jquery.sparkline, pinfinder, Go utilities) that reflect hands-on software engineering across frontend micro-libraries and systems tooling. github+2
Remote-first engineering and collaboration advocate who emphasizes efficient distributed workflows and tooling. As Atolio CTO he has discussed and adopted tools (Zulip, CoScreen) and practices to enable a distributed team to build a product that connects enterprise apps and documents into searchable knowledge. zulip+2
Public-facing technical leader and community engager — maintains a personal site and GitHub profile, is active on X (Twitter), and hosts/co-hosts Atolio’s podcast series interviewing CTOs and engineering leaders. gwatts+2

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Active open-source maintainer and contributor (personal projects and tooling). github+1