# About Duckbill

We provide financial planning and analysis for your cloud infrastructure.

Informed by tens of billions in negotiated cloud contracts, our expertise and our data platform work in concert to support complex organizations in managing their cloud costs.

We bridge the gap between technical complexity and financial reality — consolidating scattered data, providing expert validation that stands up to board-level scrutiny, and modeling future scenarios so you can catch opportunities and risks on time. Whether you’re answering tough questions or planning next year’s budget, we give you the context and confidence to be the authority on your cloud spend.

## In the news

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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/)

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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)

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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/)

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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/)

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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/)

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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)

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Red Hat Kubernetes security report finds people are the problem](https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/18/red_hat_kubernetes/)

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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)

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This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously.](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/technology/corey-quinn-amazon-aws.html)

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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/)

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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/)

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10 cloud computing experts you should follow](https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/feature/10-cloud-computing-experts-you-should-follow)

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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

### Mike Julian

CEO

[View Mike Julian LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketjulian/)

### Corey Quinn

Chief Cloud Economist

[View Corey Quinn LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/coquinn/)

### Eric Pullen

Principal Cloud Economist

[View Eric Pullen LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpullen/)

### April Palmer

Account Manager

[View April Palmer LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hotmessboss/)

### Mike Neff

Head of Product + Design

[View Mike Neff LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelneff/)

### Joshua Buss

Head of Engineering

[View Joshua Buss LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chicagobuss/)

### Kevin Highwater

Software Engineer

[View Kevin Highwater LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinhighwater/)

### Alex Hahnenfeld

Data Analyst

[View Alex Hahnenfeld LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhahn123/)

### Jim Moses

Director of Hyperscaler Strategy

[View Jim Moses LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-m-9143aa2/)

### Charles Qian

Chief of Staff

[View Charles Qian LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesqian/)

### Tina Taylor

Software Engineer

[View Tina Taylor LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-taylor-codes/)

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