# Alan Shreve

> Alan Shreve is the founder and CEO of ngrok, the secure ingress platform he wrote while teaching himself Go. He bootstrapped the project to roughly five million developers before raising a $50 million Series A in 2022, building one of the rare developer tools that engineers cite by name.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at ngrok
- **Organizations:** ngrok, equinox.io
- **Nationality:** American
- **Known for:** Built ngrok to roughly 5 million users while bootstrapped., Raised $50M Series A in December 2022., Maintains ngrok (24k+ GitHub stars), go-update (2.3k stars), log15 (1.1k stars), and other widely used Go libraries.

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Joined Twilio as one of the first engineers; helped build the messaging team.
- **career** — Engineering roles at Microsoft, VMware, Fog Creek, and Keen IO.
- **2013** — Released ngrok as an open source Go project after struggling to test Twilio integrations locally.
- **co-founded** — Co-founded equinox.io for building, packaging, and distributing self-updating Go applications.
- **2013-2022** — Bootstrapped ngrok with no outside funding; reached approximately 5 million users.
- **2022-12** — Raised $50M Series A to expand ngrok into a unified ingress platform.
- **2023** — Speaker at QCon San Francisco and QCon New York.

## Achievements

- Built ngrok to roughly 5 million users while bootstrapped.
- Raised $50M Series A in December 2022.
- Maintains ngrok (24k+ GitHub stars), go-update (2.3k stars), log15 (1.1k stars), and other widely used Go libraries.
- Cited by the Go community as a model for product-driven open source.

## Latest updates

- **2023-10** — Speaking on developer infrastructure at QCon San Francisco 2023.
- **2022-12** — Closed $50M Series A for ngrok.

## Links

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

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Last updated: 2026-05-15