# Alex Solomon

> Alex Solomon co-founded PagerDuty in Toronto in 2009 with Andrew Miklas and Baskar Puvanathasan after working as a software engineer at Amazon. He led PagerDuty as its founding CEO, recruited Jennifer Tejada to succeed him in 2016, and subsequently served as CTO and General Manager of Flexible Platform. His employment ended in July 2024 and he retired from the board in December 2025. His public interviews explore on-call ownership, company culture, and the practical decisions involved in scaling a developer-focused business.

- **Role:** Software engineer, entrepreneur, and angel investor
- **Organizations:** PagerDuty, Amazon, Intersect Inc.
- **Education:** Bachelor of Software Engineering (B.S.E.), University of Waterloo
- **Known for:** Co-founded PagerDuty and served as its founding CEO through July 2016., Helped build PagerDuty from its initial alerting product into an incident management business that listed on the NYSE in April 2019., Joint recipient with Jennifer Tejada of the 2018 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year award in Northern California’s Infrastructure & Operations category.

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Graduated from the University of Waterloo and began working full time at Amazon.
- **2009** — Co-founded PagerDuty in Toronto with Andrew Miklas and Baskar Puvanathasan; the company launched its paid product in December.
- **2010** — PagerDuty participated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2010 batch; Solomon joined the board in November.
- **2014** — PagerDuty raised a $27.2 million Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
- **2016-07** — Jennifer Tejada succeeded Solomon as CEO; he became CTO.
- **2018-06** — Solomon and Tejada won EY Entrepreneur Of The Year in Northern California’s Infrastructure & Operations category.
- **2019-04** — PagerDuty went public on the New York Stock Exchange.
- **2021-01** — Moved from CTO to General Manager of Flexible Platform.
- **2024-07** — Employment at PagerDuty ended on July 2, 2024.
- **2025-12** — Retired from PagerDuty’s board on December 30, 2025.

## Achievements

- Co-founded PagerDuty and served as its founding CEO through July 2016.
- Helped build PagerDuty from its initial alerting product into an incident management business that listed on the NYSE in April 2019.
- Joint recipient with Jennifer Tejada of the 2018 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year award in Northern California’s Infrastructure & Operations category.

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Retired from PagerDuty’s board effective December 30, 2025; the company said the resignation did not result from disagreement over its operations, policies, or practices.
- **2026-05** — PagerDuty’s 2026 proxy confirmed that his employment ended July 2, 2024 and his board service ended December 30, 2025.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexsolo
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/alxsolomon

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