About ngrok

ngrok is the leading way to make any application, device, or service securely available on its global edge in seconds. ngrok wraps the complexity of authentication, remote management, load balancing, and networking into a programmable component embeddable into any stack. ngrok is used by over 5 million developers and is recommended by category leaders including Twilio, GitHub, Okta, Microsoft, Zoom, and Shopify.

ngrok is pronounced 'en-grok'.

Our vision

Increase the pace of innovation on the internet

Our mission

Build the unified ingress platform that wins the hearts and minds of developers

Our core values

We are customer obsessed

We delight customers, solve for customer challenges, and drive better customer outcomes.

We are owners

We are accountable, build with high quality, and take pride in being empowered to go above and beyond what is expected.

We lead with empathy

We are empathetic, inclusive and kind in our interactions. We seek to understand others’ point of view even when they challenge our own.

We learn fast

We are curious, take risks, learn from failure, and approach problems with an open mind. We hold strong opinions, lightly.

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We win as one team

We support each other and leverage our diversity to win together. We align and commit on challenges, with the intent to learn and iterate.

Meet the leadership team

Alan Shreve

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Alan Shreve is no stranger to building distributed systems at scale. He organically grew ngrok from zero to 5 million users before raising a $50 million Series A. He’s dedicated to empowering developers to build a safer and more secure internet.

Heather McLinden

Chief People Officer

Heather McLinden has more than 20 years of experience creating award-winning organizational cultures at HoneyBook, Sauce Labs, Twilio, Intel, and HP. She’s an advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in tech.

Peter Shafton

Chief Technology Officer

Peter Shafton has extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems, cloud computing, and digital media applications at industry-defining companies like Twilio and Cisco. He’s a leader, a fixer, and an architect at heart.

Zubin Tavaria

Chief Marketing Officer

Zubin Tavaria is an award-winning marketing leader with more than 20 years of experience at enterprise technology companies, including F5. He’s a strategist, a collaborator, and a numbers guy.

ngrok investors

Guru Chahal

Partner at Lightspeed

Founder, now Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Focused on early stage investments in cybersecurity, cloud, DevOps and infra. Previously, co-founder at Avi Networks, a network security and services company. Passionate about helping build great products, teams, and businesses - with experience in building category defining products in cyber security and cloud infra!

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