Eric Allam

Eric Allam is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Trigger.dev, an open-source background jobs and automation framework based in Orlando, Florida. Under his technical leadership, the developer tools startup participated in the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch, secured a $3 million seed funding round in mid-2023, and achieved 50% month-over-month growth through rapid product iteration. Previously, Allam served as the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Code School, a technical education platform that was acquired by Pluralsight for $36 million in 2015. In addition to his corporate ventures, he created JSON Hero, a widely utilized open-source viewing tool that has accumulated thousands of stars from developers. His professional background centers on building scalable open-source infrastructure, workflow automation systems, and specialized software engineering tools designed to improve the overall developer experience across the technology industry.