Where does Eric Rowell work?

Eric Rowell is Founder of Second and Founder at Wayline.

What companies did Eric Rowell found?

Eric Rowell founded Second, Wayline.

Where did Eric Rowell go to school?

Eric Rowell studied at Y Combinator (S25); Y Combinator (W23); Y Combinator (W21).

Eric Rowell

Founder

Founder at Wayline · Founder at Second

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedSecond · YC Wayline · YC

About

Eric Rowell is co-founder and CTO of Wayline (YC S25), and previously founded Second (YC W23), a company that raised $1.9M for enterprise codebase maintenance tools. He was co-founder and CTO of Uiflow (YC W21), which secured $21M in funding, developed a no-code platform for enterprises, and was acquired by Workday; prior to that, he held roles as Head of Data Visualization at Workday, UI architect at LinkedIn and Yahoo, and authored technical books and open source libraries in visualization and web technologies.

Founder at Wayline YC S25

Intro paths

Eric went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer — the partner who ran Wayline's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Eric can intro founders to Wayline's investors below.

Wayline's investors · 3

Moonfire VenturesLondon Valia VenturesLondon · $50K – $50M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Wayline

Jason OkraFounder

Founder at Second YC W23

Intro paths

Eric went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer — the partner who ran Second's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Eric can intro founders to Second's investors below.

Second's investors · 2

IFCAuburn · since 2026 Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023

Experience

WaylineCo-founder & CTO (YC S25)current2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
SecondFounder & CEO (YC W23)2023 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
UiflowCo-founder & CTO (YC W21)2020 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
WorkdayHead of Data Visualization2018 — 2020San Mateo, CA
WorkdayPrincipal UI and Data Visualization Engineer2016 — 2018San Mateo, California
PlatforaPrincipal Data Visualization Engineer2014 — 2016San Mateo, CA
Html5CanvasTutorialsFounder2010 — 2015
MeteorCharts, Inc.Founder & CEO2013 — 2014Sunnyvale, CA
LinkedInSenior Frontend Engineer2012 — 2014Mountain View, CA
KineticJSFounder2011 — 2014Silicon Valley
Yahoo!Frontend Engineer2011 — 2012Sunnyvale
BNSF RailwaySenior System Developer2009 — 2011

Skills & more

Dust1Coffee1JavaScript62HTML 546CSS37HTML16jQuery11HTML59Node.js6JSON4REST3LAMP4

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Eric Rowell?: Eric Rowell is co-founder and CTO of Wayline (YC S25), and previously founded Second (YC W23), a company that raised $1.9M for enterprise codebase maintenance tools. He was co-founder and CTO of Uiflow (YC W21), which secured $21M in funding, developed a no-code platform for enterprises, and was acquired by Workday; prior to that, he held roles as Head of Data Visualization at Workday, UI architect at LinkedIn and Yahoo, and authored technical books and open source libraries in visualization and web technologies.
Where does Eric Rowell work?: Eric Rowell is Founder of Second and Founder at Wayline.
What companies did Eric Rowell found?: Eric Rowell founded Second, Wayline.
Where did Eric Rowell go to school?: Eric Rowell studied at Y Combinator (S25); Y Combinator (W23); Y Combinator (W21).