Matt Aitken
Founder, CEO at Trigger.dev
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Aitken is a founder and CEO with eight years of engineering leadership experience, currently building Trigger.dev, an open-source platform for background jobs and AI infrastructure that simplifies durable workflows and API-driven automation. Based in London, he blends product-minded front-end craftsmanship—contributing UI improvements and integration features to the trigger.dev repo—with CEO-level strategy and fundraising experience from prior startups backed by Upfront and Lightspeed. Before Trigger.dev he served as CTO at consumer-focused startups (Spoof, Solve) that scaled creative mobile experiences to millions of users, and earlier led design and product teams at Touchpress. He moves between design, front-end engineering, and systems thinking comfortably, shipping polished user experiences while owning reliability and developer ergonomics. An architect-by-training, Matt brings a design-led sensibility to developer tools, favoring clear UX in complex engineering products.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BArch Architecture, BArch Architecture at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (9)
css10
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
triggerdotdev/trigger.dev
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Trigger.dev – open source background jobs and AI infrastructure
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 425 reviews, 1002 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the web application's front-end development, focusing on UI improvements and implementing features related to the project's integrations. The commits demonstrate the addition of new components, modifications to existing ones, and styling adjustments using Heroicons and CSS. The user's work included the introduction of new UI elements and enhancements to the application's overall user experience.
eventsorchestrationschedulerapisautomation
triggerdotdev/docker
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
Docker templates for self-hosting and running the Trigger.dev platform locally
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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