About ByLeet
ByLeet started as a weekend hack. In late 2019, three platform engineers — frustrated by the bloated, poorly documented tooling at their respective companies — began collaborating on an open-source Terraform wrapper that made multi-environment provisioning less painful. The repo gained 3,000 GitHub stars in its first month, and the pull requests kept coming from DevOps engineers around the world who shared the same pain.
By mid-2021 the side project had outgrown evenings and weekends. The trio incorporated ByLeet, raised a modest seed round from angel investors who were themselves former infrastructure engineers, and committed to a model where the core tools stay open source and revenue comes from managed cloud services, enterprise support, and premium integrations.
Today ByLeet maintains twelve open-source projects with over 45,000 combined GitHub stars. Our managed platform handles infrastructure provisioning, drift detection, and policy enforcement for more than 600 teams across startups, fintechs, and Fortune 500 companies. We hire from the community, contribute upstream relentlessly, and measure success by one metric: how fast a platform engineer can go from a blank terminal to a fully provisioned, policy-compliant environment.
Our Mission
To give every platform engineer access to best-in-class DevOps tooling by building in the open and shipping relentlessly.
Our Values
Open Source First
Our core frameworks and CLI tools are MIT-licensed and always will be. We believe the best developer tools are shaped by the community that uses them, and we earn revenue by adding value on top — never by locking down the foundation.
Developer Experience
A tool nobody enjoys using is a tool that collects dust. We obsess over CLI ergonomics, error messages, documentation, and terminal UX because we know that developer happiness translates directly into adoption and productivity.
Velocity
Infrastructure bottlenecks do not wait for quarterly release cycles. We ship continuously, iterate publicly, and treat every merged PR as a small bet on making our users faster. If a feature does not reduce time-to-production, it does not ship.