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Infrastructure beloved by developers. That's the job.

From secure tunnels, to a universal gateway, to the infrastructure layer for a world where developers and their agents ship software faster than ever before.

(psst! it’s pronounced “en-grok”)
Vision

Increase the pace of innovation on the internet.

Mission

Build networking tools that win the hearts and minds of developers.

Our values

How we sweat the small stuff.

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.

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.

Leadership

Just a few of the folks behind ngrok.

Alan Shreve

Alan Shreve

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Alan Shreve is no stranger to building distributed systems at scale. He organically grew ngrok to 5 million users before raising its $50 million Series A.

Heather McLinden

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.

Peter Shafton

Peter Shafton

Chief Technology Officer

Peter Shafton is experienced in large-scale distributed systems, cloud computing, & media applications at industry-defining companies like Twilio & Cisco.

Sam Richard

Sam Richard

Chief Revenue Officer

Sam Richard lives and breathes product-led growth.

Investors

And the people who’ve backed us.

Lightspeed Venture PartnersCoatue
Guru Chahal

Guru Chahal

Partner at Lightspeed

Founder, now Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Focused on early stage investments in cybersecurity, cloud, DevOps and infra.

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