6x founder

Eric Rowell

Wayline (YC W25). 3x YC Alum. Follow me to learn about startups, AI, graphics, and web.

Co-founder

Second· Winter 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

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2025Co-founder· Wayline

Founder · since 2010

Company

Wayline

Role

Co-founder & CTO (YC S25)

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

Profile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact

Second

AI-Native Enterprise Codebase Maintenance

Winter 2023

Experience

Career

Wayline
Co-founder
Co-founder & CTO (YC S25) · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Second
Founder
Founder & CEO (YC W23) · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – 2024
2023
Uiflow
Co-founder
Co-founder & CTO (YC W21) · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020 – 2022
2020
Workday
Head of Data Visualization · San Mateo, CA · 2018 – 2020
2018
Workday
Principal UI and Data Visualization Engineer · San Mateo, California · 2016 – 2018
2016
Platfora
Principal Data Visualization Engineer · San Mateo, CA · 2014 – 2016
2014
Html5CanvasTutorials
Founder
Founder · 2010 – 2015
2010
MeteorCharts, Inc.
Founder
Founder & CEO · Sunnyvale, CA · 2013 – 2014
2013
LinkedIn
Senior Frontend Engineer · Mountain View, CA · 2012 – 2014
2012
KineticJS
Founder
Founder · Silicon Valley · 2011 – 2014
2011
Yahoo!
Frontend Engineer · Sunnyvale · 2011 – 2012
2011
BNSF Railway
Senior System Developer · 2009 – 2011
2009

Bio

Co-founder & CTO of Wayline (YC S25). I was previously the founder & CEO of Second (YC W23) where I raised $1.9M to build enterprise codebase maintenance tools. Before that, I was the co-founder and CTO of Uiflow (YC W21) where I raised $21M, built a no-code platform for enterprises, and was acquired by Workday. Before that, I was the Head of Data Visualization at Workday, UI architect at LinkedIn and Yahoo, author of HTML5 Canvas Cookbook, and created several popular open source libraries.