Richard Ortenberg
Summary
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RockstarRichard Ortenberg is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with over 10 years building scalable, secure full‑stack systems focused on APIs, automation, identity, and performance. He launched Sentry's Crons product and re-architected its event processing to handle hundreds of millions of check-ins and new issue types, while contributing front- and back-end fixes to the widely used open-source Sentry project. As an early engineer at Foxpass he helped grow ARR 50x and led end-to-end integrations across RADIUS/LDAP/SAML/OAuth and major cloud providers. Comfortable from Linux services and distributed pipelines to customer-facing UIs, he combines pragmatic short-term delivery with long-term architecture and hands-on operational and mentorship experience.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
javascript9
python9
javascripts9
react9
typescripts8
performance-tuning8
performanceanalytics8
performancemonitor8
django8
django28
performance-analysis8
api8
typescript-types8
typescript8
performance-measurement8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:824 reviews, 51 commits, 459 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on front-end and back-end tasks within the Sentry project. Their contributions included fixing UI copy on data forwarding pages, implementing integration UI changes, and refactoring event management code to support multiple issue types. Additionally, the user worked on refactoring and modularizing post-process group functions, addressing various performance issues and contributing to ongoing performance refactoring efforts. The contributions show a significant focus on both UI and back-end codebases.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
getsentry/hackweek-uptime
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
Uptime monitoring
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 days
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