CURRENTLY — Co-founder & CTO @ BizTrip.ai · San Francisco, CA
Scott Persinger
Four-time founder with two acquisitions and 25+ years shipping software. I originated Heroku Connect (via my startup CloudConnect, acquired by Salesforce), built Stripe's global alternative-payments rails, ran a 100-engineer org at Tatari — and now I'm building BizTrip.ai, an agentic AI travel planner grounded in real fare data.
Experience
a quarter-century of shipping1 yr 4 mo
BizTrip AI Co-founder & CTO Current
Business travel, reimagined as a conversation. Building an agentic AI trip planner that's grounded in real fare and availability data — with an AI teammate ("Bizzybot") doing PR reviews and shipping code alongside the humans.
advisor
Supercog AI Advisor
Advising on the future of application integration with AI — agent frameworks, tooling, and connecting LLMs to real enterprise systems.
4 yr 8 mo
Tatari SVP, Engineering
Built and led a 100-person engineering org powering data-driven TV advertising — product, platform, ML/AI, data engineering, and DevOps. Drove the migration from data warehouse to a Spark/Databricks lakehouse, unifying the company's data platform.
6 mo
Uplevel Technologies Principal
Engineering consulting between chapters — advising Bay Area teams on architecture and engineering leadership.
2 yr 6 mo
Stripe Head of Alternative Payment Methods
Built the team that took Stripe beyond credit cards — ACH, SEPA, BECS, Alipay, WeChat Pay and more — hiring engineering teams across SF, Seattle, Dublin, and Singapore, and holding both EM and PM responsibilities for the portfolio.
4 yr
Heroku Senior Director, Engineering
Ran Platform Services — Dashboard, CLI, the Heroku API, CI, Metrics, and the core control plane. Grew the Heroku Connect business from zero to >$10M ARR while the platform itself grew more than 5× in size and revenue.
1 yr 3 mo
CloudConnect Co-founder & CTO Acquired by Salesforce
SaaS platform for customer-data synchronization — inaugural class at the Heavybit incubator. Acquired by Salesforce in 2013 and relaunched as Heroku Connect, still a flagship Heroku product a decade later.
5 yr 3 mo
Remixation Co-founder & VP Engineering Acquired by Vevo
Built Showyou, the social video app Apple featured among its best iPad apps of 2011 and 2012, and Vodpod — scaled to 10M visitors/month, powering video widgets for Time Inc. and the New York Times blogs. Showyou was acquired by Vevo.
1 yr 6 mo
GoFish Technologies VP Engineering
Hired and built engineering and network operations from the ground up for one of the early online-video networks, driving rapid product innovation and traffic growth at gofish.com.
2 yr
webMethods Senior Architect
Architect and team lead for the webMethods BPM solution — later acquired by Software AG, where the product remains a profitable business line.
Projects
products founded & open source
BizTrip.ai
An agentic AI travel planner for business trips. Chat with an agent that searches real flights and fares, plans multi-leg trips, and books — grounded by async "route reports" computed with frontier reasoning models so the real-time planner stays fast and smart.
Bizzybot
The open-source AI teammate at BizTrip — runs Claude Code as its brain, lives in Slack, and does real work: PR reviews with full app testing, website edits, and issue investigation.
Portfolio Builder
AI prompts and skills for generating personal portfolio sites with Claude Code. Yes — this very page was built by it. Fork it and make yours.
Supercog
Application integration rebuilt for the AI era — agents that connect LLMs to enterprise systems.
Heroku Connect
Bi-directional Salesforce ⇄ Postgres sync. Born as CloudConnect, still a flagship Heroku product today.
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Where the platform-building habit started. Go Bears. 🐻
A little more
Scott Persinger
Bay Area native, father of three
Based in
San Francisco, California
Founder of
Alier · Remixation · CloudConnect · BizTrip — four companies, two acquisitions.
Writing about
AI agents & loop engineering — building self-improving development loops with coding agents, on scottpersinger.com and LinkedIn.
Team roster
Humans, Bizzybot & Potato — a coding agent with its own Claude license, and a 7-year-old orange tabby serving as Chief Productivity Officer.