# Adrian Macneil

> Adrian Macneil is the New Zealand-born co-founder and CEO of Foxglove, a San Francisco robotics data and visualization company. After building an e-commerce platform, joining Coinbase early, and leading infrastructure engineering at Cruise as it scaled from prototypes to a large autonomous-vehicle program, he co-founded Foxglove in 2021 to give robotics teams shared tools for recording, searching, visualizing, and debugging multimodal machine data.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Foxglove
- **Organizations:** Foxglove, Cruise, Coinbase, Exp:resso, Roomz, New Zealand Treasury, ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee
- **Nationality:** New Zealander
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Massey University
- **Known for:** Founded Exp:resso, an e-commerce platform acquired in 2014., Served as Coinbase's first Director of Engineering and helped build its digital currency exchange., Led infrastructure engineering at Cruise as the company scaled its autonomous-vehicle program.

## Career timeline

- **2007-2010** — Worked as a software engineer at the New Zealand Treasury.
- **Before 2014** — Founded and led Exp:resso, an e-commerce platform for the ExpressionEngine CMS.
- **2013-2014** — Worked as lead engineer at Roomz.
- **2014** — Exp:resso was acquired; moved from New Zealand to the San Francisco Bay Area and joined Coinbase as a software engineer, later becoming its first Director of Engineering.
- **2016-2021** — Led infrastructure engineering at Cruise, including developer tools and a multimodal visualization platform for autonomous vehicles.
- **2021** — Co-founded Foxglove with Roman Shtylman to build robotics visualization and data infrastructure.
- **2022** — Foxglove joined the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee and raised a $3.7 million seed round followed later that year by a $15 million Series A.
- **2025** — Foxglove hosted Actuate 2025 for more than 500 attendees and announced a $40 million Series B.
- **2026** — Continued expanding Foxglove's physical AI data platform and lowered self-service pricing for its Pro plan.

## Achievements

- Founded Exp:resso, an e-commerce platform acquired in 2014.
- Served as Coinbase's first Director of Engineering and helped build its digital currency exchange.
- Led infrastructure engineering at Cruise as the company scaled its autonomous-vehicle program.
- Co-founded Foxglove and helped develop a platform for multimodal robotics data management and visualization.
- Helped bring Foxglove into the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee.
- Led Foxglove through a $40 million Series B in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Foxglove reduced self-service pricing, renamed its Team plan Pro, and introduced usage-based volume discounts; Macneil authored the announcement.
- **2026-03** — Foxglove announced Actuate 26, its San Francisco developer conference for people building robots, targeting more than 1,000 attendees.
- **2026-01** — Macneil appeared on the Machine Minds podcast to discuss missing infrastructure in robotics, MCAP, hiring, and Foxglove's ten-year vision.
- **2025-11** — Foxglove announced a $40 million Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Eclipse, Amplify, and Icehouse Ventures.
- **2025-09** — Macneil delivered the opening keynote at Actuate 2025 on scaling physical AI infrastructure from prototype to production.

## Links

- Website: https://adrianmacneil.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianmacneil/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/adrianmacneil
- GitHub: https://github.com/amacneil

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Last updated: 2026-08-17