Eli Schleifer
Founder and CEO of Trunk, formerly built developer infrastructure at Microsoft and worked on engineering systems at Google and Uber ATG, focused on CI reliability, merge queues, and fixing flaky tests.
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Mar 10, 2026 • 39min
Trunk: Fixing CI at Scale (Merge Queues, Flaky Tests, and Shipping Code)
Eli Schleifer, founder and CEO of Trunk who built developer infrastructure at Microsoft, Google, and Uber, talks CI reliability at scale. He covers why CI becomes a bottleneck as teams grow. He explains merge queues, flaky tests, batching and anti-flake tactics. He also discusses AI-driven fixes, dynamic parallelism, and the build vs buy tradeoffs for developer tooling.
