Built for Engineers, by Engineers
We're building the tools we always wished existed. Fast, expressive, and designed for real-world teams. Terrateam helps manage infrastructure with secure, GitOps-native workflows.
We've solved the Terraform pain points no one else would touch
Malcolm Matalka
Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder & Engineering
Josh Pollara
Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder & Operations
The Perfect Combination
Terrateam was founded in 2021 by two longtime friends and collaborators, Malcolm Matalka and Josh Pollara. Malcolm's background is in backend development, programming languages, and building fast, reliable systems. Josh's experience is rooted in technical operations: site reliability engineering, DevOps, and platform engineering.
After decades working across both sides of the dev and ops divide, they realized most Terraform tooling failed to reflect how modern teams actually work. So they built Terrateam to bridge that gap. From day one, the tool was designed around GitOps workflows, clean audit trails, and developer-first automation.
"We didn't want to build another infrastructure platform. We wanted something smaller, faster, and more expressive. Something you could understand and trust."
"Infrastructure should be boring. It should work the same way every time. But it also needs to be flexible enough to reflect the way your team works. Not how some vendor thinks you should."
Our principles
The values that guide everything we build and how we work with our customers
Build Sustainably
We're bootstrapped and independent by choice.
Be Expressive
Terrateam is flexible by design and adapts to your workflows. Not the other way around.
GitOps First
Pull requests, reviews, and policies are the natural way to manage infrastructure at scale.
Clarity Over Complexity
We build with a small, clean codebase written in OCaml to keep the engine fast and correct.
The Terrateam journey
From first commit to industry challenger
2021 — First commit
Terrateam was born from a belief that infrastructure automation should match the rigor of software delivery. The early engine was built in OCaml for correctness and speed, avoiding third-party frameworks.
2022 — First customers
The tool quietly spread among engineering teams struggling with scaling Terraform in monorepos, multi-environment setups, and regulated industries.
2023 — Competing with giants
Terrateam won head-to-head evaluations against much larger companies in the space. Not with funding, but by being more flexible, more PR-native, and easier to adopt.
2024 — Open source release
In December, the team open-sourced Terrateam's engine under MPL-2.0. It was a philosophical decision, grounded in a desire to build transparently and collaboratively. Enterprise features remain proprietary, but the core logic is now maintained in the open.
2025 — GitLab support & fresh UI
Major platform expansion with GitLab support, bringing Terrateam's powerful automation to GitLab users. Launched alongside a completely refreshed user interface that makes infrastructure management even more intuitive and accessible.
How we work
We are a small team of engineers and operators building the future of infrastructure automation. We believe in transparency, velocity, and quality.
Daily Releases
Ship fast, ship often. We release new code every day, getting improvements and fixes to users immediately.
20,000+ Tests
Every change runs through our comprehensive test suite of over 20,000 checks to ensure reliability.
Building in Public
Open source core, transparent development, and direct customer support. No black boxes.
Open source at our core
We believe in building in the open. Our core platform and tools are open source, enabling transparency and community contributions.
Trusted by teams that run infrastructure at scale
From startups to enterprises, teams rely on Terrateam to manage their critical infrastructure
Join our team
We're looking for engineers who are passionate about infrastructure automation, OCaml, and building developer tools that users love.
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