# Maxime Beauchemin

> Maxime Beauchemin is the founder and CEO of Preset and the original creator of Apache Airflow and Apache Superset, both begun at Airbnb. His career spans data roles at Ubisoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Airbnb, and Lyft; his essays helped articulate the modern data-engineering role. He is now also building Agor, a shared environment for teams working with AI agents.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Preset
- **Organizations:** Preset, Apache Software Foundation, Airbnb, Lyft, Facebook, Yahoo, Ubisoft
- **Known for:** Original creator of Apache Airflow., Original creator of Apache Superset., Founded Preset in 2019.

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Worked in data warehousing at Ubisoft and clickstream analytics at Yahoo, including early Hadoop/Pig use in 2007.
- **Before Airbnb** — Built analytics computation frameworks at Facebook.
- **2014** — Started Airflow at Airbnb in October.
- **2015** — Started the visualization project that became Superset at an Airbnb hackathon; Airflow was publicly announced in June.
- **2017** — Published The Rise of the Data Engineer and The Downfall of the Data Engineer; Superset entered Apache incubation in May.
- **2018** — Published Functional Data Engineering.
- **2019** — Was a senior software engineer at Lyft; founded Preset. Airflow became an Apache top-level project in January.
- **2021** — Superset top-level status announced in January; Preset announced Cloud general availability and a $35.9M Series B in August.
- **2025** — Introduced Agor in October.
- **2026** — Announced Preset's $7.27M Series C in March and Agor Cloud open beta in October.

## Achievements

- Original creator of Apache Airflow.
- Original creator of Apache Superset.
- Founded Preset in 2019.
- Authored The Rise of the Data Engineer, The Downfall of the Data Engineer, and Functional Data Engineering.
- Led Preset through its announced 2021 Series B and 2026 Series C.
- Created Agor for collaborative agent workflows.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — On October 13, announced Agor Cloud open beta, a hosted service for collaborative AI-agent work.
- **2026-07** — Discussed Agor, agent permissions, shared context, and automating CEO work in a July 31 MotherDuck interview.
- **2026-03** — On March 30, proposed the AI Enablement Engineer role in a Preset essay.
- **2026-03** — On March 9, announced a $7.27M Series C led by a16z and reported 400+ customers.

## Links

- Website: https://preset.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximebeauchemin/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mistercrunch
- GitHub: https://github.com/mistercrunch

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Last updated: 2026-10-26