Peter Marton

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

Co-founded OpenMeter, a leading usage-based billing platform.
Led API platform development for Netflix serving 200 million users.
Expert in metering and billing for AI and cloud companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in usage-based billing and API development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Usage-based BillingBillingDatabasesFinopsNode.jsGraphqlObservability

Other Skills

MeteringUsage AnalysisSLOCost EfficiencyUsage BasedServerlessDistributed SystemsTeam ManagementJavaScriptMicroservicesKubernetesMonitoringPrometheus

About

OpenMeter helps developers at AI and cloud companies adopt usage-based billing. Our real-time metering enables billing, usage limit enforcement, and cost use cases. OpenMeter is open-source and available under the Apache 2.0 license. HOW DO WE HELP? OpenMeter streamlines usage-based pricing with per-second granularity, per API, or token usage. We eliminated the heavy lifting of real-time and accurate metering to enable: - Accurate, robust billing on a scale - Adding real-time usage dashboards to your app - Low latency usage limit enforcement WE ARE BACKED BY OpenMeter is backed by YCombinator, Haystack, Sunflower Capital, and angels from iconic companies like Stripe and Netflix.

Experience

10 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Kong inc.

Principal Product Manager (OpenMeter Acquisition)

Sep 2025 – Apr 2026 · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Kong acquired OpenMeter in 2025 to accelerate investment in AI monetization and flexible billing.
By joining Kong, we can bring metering, entitlements, and billing closer to where consumption happens: right at the API and AI layer.
With Kong in front of their applications, teams will get out-of-the-box API and AI gateway capabilities; authentication, developer portals, observability, and now billing—helping the next generation of companies go from zero to production faster than ever before.

Openmeter

CEO, Co-Founder of OpenMeter (Acquired by Kong, Inc.)

Jan 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco, CA

OpenMeter (YC W23) is a usage-based billing platform designed for AI and DevTool companies. It's loved by developers and business teams because they can iterate on pricing and packaging quickly and manage sales deals directly from the dashboard, without the need for coding. OpenMeter enables:
Real-time and scalable usage metering.
Rapid product launches and pricing iterations without code changes.
Using multiple payment providers for billing and invoicing.
OpenMeter is open-source, capable of processing billions of events quickly, and is published under the Apache 2.0 license at https://github.com/openmeterio/openmeter

MeteringBillingUsage-Based BillingUsage Analysis

Stripe

Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Leader at Online Databases:
Owner of Database Efficiency and Cost
Chargeback, metering, and FinOps
Introduced Database SLOs

DatabasesSLOCost EfficiencyUsage BasedFinOps

Node.js

Chairman of Diagnostics Working Group

Jun 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr

Facilitated the group and introduced a more user focused, product driven approach.

Netflix

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2018 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on platform solutions powering the Netflix API for 200 million members, including:
Serverless API platform
Federated GraphQL API and architecture
Device-server interaction and protocol
Product management areas like developer research, user journey mapping and prioritization
The API platform processes and orchestrates the majority of the requests from Netflix clients such as iOS, Android, TV etc. to backend systems - leveraging new technologies like Docker, Node.js, container orchestration, GraphQL, and gRPC. This effort is a significant cross-functional project which requires technical leadership, product thinking, and orchestration between multiple organizations, teams and stakeholders.

Node.jsGraphQLServerlessObservability

Risingstack

CTO, Co-founder

Dec 2014 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Co-founder of the Node.js consulting and observability company trusted by the enterprise.
Head of engineering
Product manager of the Trace by RisingStack observability product

Node.jsObservabilityDistributed SystemsTeam Management