Lew Cirne
Founder And Chairman at New Relic, Inc.
Marble Falls, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLew Cirne is a seasoned technology founder and entrepreneur with over 18 years of leadership in software and performance intelligence. As founder and CEO of New Relic since 2007 and now its Executive Chairman, he built a widely adopted observability platform that serves developers, operations, security, and business teams. He is currently guiding The Gamaliel Project while maintaining leadership at New Relic, continuing his focus on data-driven software performance. Based in Marble Falls, Texas, his career spans CTO roles at Wily Technology and a formative stint at Apple, underscoring a deep track record of hands-on product development and company building. An active philanthropist, he co-founded the Beloved in Christ Foundation to support disadvantaged communities, and he is known for the playful maxim that New Relic is an anagram of his name. His contributions to core performance tooling, including early work on the New Relic Ruby Agent, reflect a practical impact on software at scale.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (10)
ruby10
apm-agent10
ruby-on-rails9
rails9
rails59
ruby-on-rails-79
ruby-rails9
database-design7
newrelic6
rpm6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Jul 2007 - Sep 2009
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:233 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Lew primarily worked on the core agent functionality for the New Relic RPM Ruby Agent. Their contributions involved modifying the `init.rb` file to include or exclude the agent based on the environment. The user implemented new features like CPU sampling and a comprehensive metric graph. Further, the user refactored the agent's structure by moving code into plugins and implemented agent configuration and caching.
agentrpmapm-agentrubyruby-agent
cirne/ingestimator
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Estimate New Relic One ingest costs per host
Contributions:39 commits, 18 pushes in 7 months
hostcostsestimaterelicnew-relic
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