# Kyle Carberry

> Kyle Carberry is the New York-based co-founder and CTO of Coder, an engineer whose route from rural Saskatchewan, Xbox mods, and Minecraft servers to enterprise developer infrastructure began with a persistent question: why should programmers build on one machine and run their work on another? He co-created Coder and code-server, advocates for open source and editor choice, and remains a hands-on programmer as the company expands its governed cloud workspaces from human developers to AI coding agents.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CTO at Coder
- **Organizations:** Coder
- **Known for:** Co-founded Coder in 2017., Co-created and authored code-server and Coder, according to his public speaker profile., Helped bring a full VS Code experience to the browser through Coder’s early product work.

## Career timeline

- **c. 2010** — Met future co-founders John Andrew Entwistle and Ammar Bandukwala online while building and operating game servers as young teenagers.
- **2017** — Co-founded Coder in Austin to build remote, cloud-based software development environments.
- **2018** — Published early work bringing VS Code into the browser and helped launch what became code-server.
- **2019** — Named with his co-founders to Forbes’ 2020 30 Under 30 list in Enterprise Technology.
- **2021** — Presented an editor-neutral vision for cloud development at Cloud IDE Day.
- **2023** — Coder released version 2.0 of its open-source cloud development environment platform.
- **2024** — Explained Coder’s engineering culture, open-source approach, and developer-experience philosophy on the InfoQ Engineering Culture Podcast.
- **2025** — Coder credited him with authoring the bulk of Blink, an autonomous coding agent project.
- **2026** — Coder raised a $90 million Series C to expand secure infrastructure for human and AI development workflows.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Coder in 2017.
- Co-created and authored code-server and Coder, according to his public speaker profile.
- Helped bring a full VS Code experience to the browser through Coder’s early product work.
- Named to Forbes’ 2020 30 Under 30 list in Enterprise Technology with co-founders John Entwistle and Ammar Bandukwala.
- Built open-source developer tools whose flagship repositories have accumulated large global developer communities.
- Helped guide Coder from a consumer-oriented cloud coding product toward a self-hosted enterprise platform.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Coder announced a $90 million Series C led by KKR, with participation from Qube Research & Technologies, Uncork Capital, and existing investors, to expand enterprise AI development infrastructure.
- **2025-06** — Coder marked more than 100,000 combined GitHub stars across its open-source projects.
- **2025-02** — Carberry joined Netflix engineer Aaron Lehmann for a webinar about the strengths and limits of dev containers.
- **2024-05** — He appeared on the InfoQ Engineering Culture Podcast to discuss developer experience, open-source culture, code quality, and leadership.

## Links

- Website: https://carberry.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylecarbs
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/kylecarbs
- GitHub: https://github.com/kylecarbs

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Last updated: 2026-09-28