# Andrew Miklas

> Andrew Miklas co-founded PagerDuty with two Amazon colleagues in 2009, built the original high-availability architecture as founding CTO, and shepherded the company from a Hacker News beta post to a $1.8B NYSE IPO. After a stint as an early-stage investor at s28 Capital, he returned to Y Combinator - where PagerDuty got its start in the Summer 2010 batch - as a General Partner in May 2025, fifteen years after first walking through YC's doors as a founder.

- **Role:** General Partner at Y Combinator
- **Organizations:** Y Combinator, PagerDuty, s28 Capital
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** Bachelor of Software Engineering, University of Waterloo, Master of Science, University of Toronto
- **Known for:** Co-founded PagerDuty (YC S10), now a publicly traded company (NYSE: PD) used by half the Fortune 500, Designed PagerDuty's original product architecture and high-availability systems as founding CTO, Scaled PagerDuty's engineering team from 0 to 70+ people

## Career timeline

- **~2007-2009** — Software Engineer at Amazon, Toronto - witnessed the company's shift to microservices and on-call engineering culture
- **2009** — Co-founded PagerDuty with Alex Solomon and Baskar Puvanathasan in Toronto; pushed first commit to GitHub on February 18, 2009
- **2009** — Launched PagerDuty beta on Hacker News; early beta testers became first paying customers
- **2010** — Accepted into Y Combinator Summer 2010 batch; relocated company from Toronto to San Francisco
- **2010** — Raised $1.9M seed funding from angel investors
- **2013** — Raised $10.7M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz
- **2013-2018** — Scaled PagerDuty engineering team to 70+ people; designed original high-availability architecture; company reached $100M+ ARR and 10,000+ customers
- **2019** — PagerDuty IPO on NYSE (ticker: PD) at $1.8B market capitalization
- **2019-2024** — Early-stage investor at s28 Capital; backed Clerk, CaptivateIQ, Teleport, and others
- **2024** — Joined Y Combinator as Visiting Group Partner; worked closely with hundreds of founders across multiple batches
- **2025-05** — Promoted to General Partner at Y Combinator alongside Jon Xu

## Achievements

- Co-founded PagerDuty (YC S10), now a publicly traded company (NYSE: PD) used by half the Fortune 500
- Designed PagerDuty's original product architecture and high-availability systems as founding CTO
- Scaled PagerDuty's engineering team from 0 to 70+ people
- Guided PagerDuty from a Hacker News beta post to a $1.8B NYSE IPO in 2019
- PagerDuty reached 10,000+ customers and $100M+ in annual recurring revenue
- Early-stage investor at s28 Capital backing companies including Clerk, CaptivateIQ, and Teleport
- Appointed YC General Partner in May 2025 - one of the first YC alumni to return as a full General Partner
- Named among YC's most trusted voices in the startup community across multiple partner batches

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Named General Partner at Y Combinator alongside Jon Xu, fifteen years after attending YC as a founder
- **2025-04** — Promoted YC-backed AI agent hackathons in San Francisco as part of his GP role
- **2024** — Served as Visiting Group Partner at YC, working closely with hundreds of founders across multiple batches

## Links

- Website: https://www.ycombinator.com/people/andrew-miklas
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amiklas/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/amiklas
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l22jp_yrOiw

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Last updated: 2026-05-09