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Tom Trahan

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SVP Business Development at CircleCI
📍 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Tom Trahan is the SVP of Business Development at CircleCI, where he leads the strategy for strategic partnerships and ecosystem growth. He leverages his expertise in business and IT strategy, honed by an MBA from the University of Washington, to build and empower high-functioning teams.

Outside of work, Tom is a family-oriented person who spends his free time with his wife and two sons. He is actively involved in his community by coaching youth sports and also enjoys traveling and playing the guitar.

He was instrumental in a key growth initiative at CircleCI: the acquisition of the Dutch release orchestration platform, Vamp.io.

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Experience
34 Years
Current Role
SVP Business Development
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Strategic Partnerships
His career focus is identifying and driving strategic partnerships to grow the company's ecosystem globally with technology companies, open-source developers, and service providers.
DevOps Ecosystem
He is focused on improving the developer experience through integrations, such as the native support for GitLab SaaS and expanding partnerships with AWS, Azure, and Red Hat.
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Career

Work history

2-2023
SVP Business Development
CircleCI
10-2019 - 3-2023
VP Business Development
CircleCI
7-2018 - 10-2019
Head of Business Development
CircleCI
1-2018 - 6-2018
Consultant
Self
12-2014 - 12-2017
VP of Business Development
Shippable, Inc.
In the press

Media appearances

Why AI teams write more code but ship less – Roundtable featuring Tom Trahan, SVP of Business Development – CircleCI. Featured in Sifted Summit 2026
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Education
1994 - 1997
MBA
UW Foster School of Business
1987 - 1991
BS
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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