Trunk
At Trunk, our goal is to help teams build software better, faster by creating a holistic developer experience toolkit.
At a Glance
- Engineering teams
- Growth-stage startups
- Large enterprises
- GitHub users
AI Tools by Trunk
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CI Reliability and Merge Queue
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A unified linter and formatter tool that integrates with VS Code and CI to provide consistent code quality feedback.
A high-scale merge queue for GitHub that protects the main branch, automates merges, and reduces CI costs through batching and parallelism.
An AI-powered product that detects, quarantines, and eliminates flaky tests from codebases to improve CI reliability.
Market Position
Trunk positions itself as a unified DevEx platform that solves specific engineering bottlenecks (testing, merging, linting) more effectively than native GitHub tools, focusing on speed and reliability at scale.
Leadership
Founders
Eli Schleifer
Founder and CEO. Previously Autonomy Staff Software Engineer at Uber ATG and Software Engineer at Google.
David Apirian
Founder and Co-CEO. Previously Head of Autonomy Infrastructure at Uber ATG and Software Engineer at Google.
Matt Matheson
Founder and CTO. Previously Senior Software Engineer at Uber and Microsoft.
Chris Clearwater
Founder. Previously Staff Software Engineer at Uber ATG and Software Engineer at Google.
Executive Team
Eli Schleifer
CEO / Founder
Previously Uber ATG, Google.
David Apirian
Co-CEO / Founder
Previously Uber ATG, Google.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
The founding team worked together at Uber ATG and Google, where they saw firsthand how engineering friction slowed down large-scale development. They started Trunk to bring world-class developer experience tools to every engineering team.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based SaaS model with per-committer pricing.
Pricing Tiers
Up to 5 repo committers, core Flaky Tests, Code Quality, and Security features.
Unlimited committers, Merge Queue, Slack notifications, and admin tools.
Includes SAML SSO, on-premise deployment, and early access to features.
Target Markets
- Engineering teams
- Growth-stage startups
- Large enterprises
- GitHub users
- Reducing CI costs and wait times
- Quarantining flaky tests in large monorepos
- Automating pull request merges at scale
- Standardizing code quality checks across teams
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- Vanta
- Faire
- Gusto