--- title: "About" id: "9273" type: "page" slug: "about" published_at: "2025-10-07T20:29:06+00:00" modified_at: "2026-09-03T16:59:29+00:00" url: "https://www.duckbillhq.com/about/" markdown_url: "https://www.duckbillhq.com/about.md" excerpt: "About Duckbill Duckbill is built for the compute economy. We provide the financial control layer that AI-native companies use to negotiate, manage, and forecast their spend across every cloud, model, neocloud, and inference provider. We’re a technology company with deep..." --- [About](#about-anchor) [In the news](#in-the-news-anchor) [Team](#team-anchor) [Assets](#assets-anchor) # About Duckbill Duckbill is built for the compute economy. We provide the financial control layer that AI-native companies use to negotiate, manage, and forecast their spend across every cloud, model, neocloud, and inference provider. We’re a technology company with deep financial expertise on infrastructure, not a financial firm with a technology bolt-on. Informed by tens of billions in negotiated AI and cloud contracts, our software and expertise work in concert to help organizations manage their largest and fastest-growing areas of strategic spend. We bridge the gap between technical complexity and financial reality: consolidating scattered data across providers, providing expert validation that stands up to board-level scrutiny, and providing you systems to model future scenarios so you can catch opportunities and risks in time. Whether you’re sizing a nine-figure commitment or planning next year’s budget, we give you the context and confidence to keep your largest and fastest-growing cost under control. [https://www.linkedin.com/company/duckbillhq/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/duckbillhq/) [https://www.youtube.com/@duckbillhq](https://www.youtube.com/@duckbillhq) [https://luma.com/duckbill](https://luma.com/duckbill) [https://x.com/DuckbillHQ](https://x.com/DuckbillHQ) ## In the news [Duckbill is making what amounts to a high-stakes pivot: transforming into a software company with a new platform called Skyway.](https://www.geekwire.com/2026/cloud-and-aws-cost-consultant-duckbill-expands-to-software-raises-7-75m-for-new-skyway-platform/) [Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout](https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/?td=keepreading) [Joy or horror? Corey Quinn calls it like he sees it in the cloud native world](https://siliconangle.com/2020/08/14/joy-horror-corey-quinn-calls-like-sees-cloud-native-world/) [Amazon says software problem was at root of huge Internet outage this week](https://fortune.com/2021/12/10/amazon-software-problem-cloud-outage-cause/) [As cloud native computing rises, it’s transforming culture as much as code](https://siliconangle.com/2020/07/18/cloud-native-computing-rises-transforming-culture-much-code/) [Amazon adds fear detection and age ranges to its facial-recognition tech as the Border Patrol looks to award a $950 million contract](https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-fear-detection-age-ranges-added-facial-recognition-rekognition-tech-2019-8) [Red Hat Kubernetes security report finds people are the problem](https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/18/red_hat_kubernetes/) [Slack may have been using users’ chats to train its AI models](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/slack-may-have-been-using-users-chats-to-train-its-ai-models/articleshow/110223443.cms) [This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously.](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/technology/corey-quinn-amazon-aws.html) [Podcast: Amazon, AI, and the cloud — a reality check, with Corey Quinn of ‘Last Week in AWS’](https://www.geekwire.com/2025/podcast-amazon-ai-and-the-cloud-a-reality-check-with-corey-quinn-of-last-week-in-aws/) [Hacker slips malicious ‘wiping’ command into Amazon’s Q AI coding assistant – and devs are worried](https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-slips-malicious-wiping-command-into-amazons-q-ai-coding-assistant-and-devs-are-worried/) [10 cloud computing experts you should follow](https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/feature/10-cloud-computing-experts-you-should-follow) [For better or worse, multiple clouds are here to stay](https://siliconangle.com/2019/08/25/many-throats-choke-better-worse-multiple-clouds-stay/) ## Team [https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketjulian/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketjulian/) ### Mike Julian CEO [https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketjulian/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketjulian/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/coquinn/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/coquinn/) ### Corey Quinn Chief Cloud Economist [https://www.linkedin.com/in/coquinn/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/coquinn/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpullen/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpullen/) ### Eric Pullen Principal Cloud Economist [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpullen/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpullen/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hotmessboss/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hotmessboss/) ### April Palmer Head of Sales [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hotmessboss/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hotmessboss/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelneff/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelneff/) ### Mike Neff Head of Product + Design [https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelneff/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelneff/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinhighwater/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinhighwater/) ### Kevin Highwater Software Engineer [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinhighwater/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinhighwater/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhahn123/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhahn123/) ### Alex Hahnenfeld Data Analyst [https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhahn123/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhahn123/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-m-9143aa2/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-m-9143aa2/) ### Jim Moses Director of Hyperscaler Strategy [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-m-9143aa2/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-m-9143aa2/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesqian/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesqian/) ### Charles Qian Chief of Staff [https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesqian/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesqian/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-taylor-codes/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-taylor-codes/) ### Tina Taylor Software Engineer [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-taylor-codes/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-taylor-codes/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-felix/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-felix/) ### Ryan Felix Software Engineer [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-felix/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-felix/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethbourg/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethbourg/) ### Beth Bourg Product Marketing Manager [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethbourg/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethbourg/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylie-dehart-b7a9977a/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylie-dehart-b7a9977a/) ### Kaylie DeHart Software Engineer [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylie-dehart-b7a9977a/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylie-dehart-b7a9977a/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mellodiemaher/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mellodiemaher/) ### Mellodie Maher Enterprise Account Executive [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mellodiemaher/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mellodiemaher/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-riggins/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-riggins/) ### Craig Riggins Software Engineer [https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-riggins/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-riggins/) ## Brand Assets Download and use the logo assets below. 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