Astronomer provides Astro, a unified orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow, designed to help data teams build and run mission-critical analytics, artificial intelligence, and data-driven software. The company is trusted by more than 900 of the world's leading enterprises to manage their data pipelines and orchestration needs.
Since 2018, Astronomer has served as a driving force behind Apache Airflow, the world's most widely used open-source tool for orchestrating data pipelines. The company maintains significant influence over the project: its team includes 18 of the top committers and 10 Apache Software Foundation Project Management Committee members, has contributed 3,200 commits to the codebase, and drives 100% of the project's releases. Apache Airflow itself commands substantial adoption, with 324 million annual downloads, 44,000 GitHub stars, and over 3,600 contributors.
Beyond its commercial platform, Astronomer operates Astronomer Academy, an education programme that has trained over 57,000 students in data orchestration and engineering practices. This combination of commercial software, open-source stewardship, and educational outreach positions the company at the centre of the data orchestration ecosystem.
