Why we run this.
I got into software through open source. As a teenager I built a KDE GUI so I’d stop typing configure, make, make install by hand. In my twenties I maintained IPv6 routing tools.
At Google I saw how much great infrastructure changes the way developers work. Outside a handful of companies, it still doesn’t exist, and maintainers are rarely inside that handful. Slow CI means batched changes, skipped runs, and contributors stuck waiting in a queue.
Much of the code we ship at Namespace lands in Foundation, the OSS platform underlying our services. Everything we run stands on open source: Kubernetes, Postgres, ClickHouse, Bazel, BuildKit.
This program is how we pay it forward. We sponsor the compute, caching, and observability so your pipeline keeps up with your contributors.
If you’re building something open source, we’d love to hear from you.
Hugo Santos
Founder and CEO, Namespace
