James Ritchie

James Ritchie is the co-founder and frontend engineer at Trigger.dev, an open-source developer platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Before launching the enterprise in 2022, he served as a product lead at multiple venture-backed startups and created JSON Hero, a widely utilized open-source developer tool. Possessing deep domain expertise in frontend engineering and product management, he helped the startup participate in Y Combinator's W23 batch, achieving the biggest Show HN post from a YC company in the past year. After initially raising $500,000 in seed capital, the framework secured a $16 million Series A funding round led by Standard Capital to scale its background jobs automation infrastructure. Today, the robust platform supports a growing user base of over 30,000 software developers and seamlessly processes hundreds of millions of monthly agent executions.