Brian Rue
CEO And Co-founder at Rollbar
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Rue is a veteran software leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms and developer tools from San Francisco. As CEO and co-founder of Rollbar, he blends rapid software development, flow optimization, and machine-learning–driven error grouping to help thousands of teams reduce debugging time and deploy with confidence. He’s hands-on across backend, DevOps, and QA—contributing to core open-source Rollbar libraries (including the widely used rollbar-gem and rollbar.js) by fixing bugs, hardening tests, and improving integration patterns. Brian’s background as a founder and CTO at multiple startups gives him rare product-and-engineering fluency, and he often focuses on practical automation that turns operational noise into actionable workflows. A Stanford-educated technologist, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a penchant for building resilient developer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Management Science and Engineering Computer Science, B.S. Management Science and Engineering Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (26)
error-reporting10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
jquery10
testing10
configuration-management10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
exception-handling10
crash-reports10
test-automation10
observability9
error-handling9
version-control9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rollbar/rollbar-gem
Oct 2012 - May 2018
Exception tracking and logging from Ruby to Rollbar
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 179 commits, 25 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the Rollbar gem by addressing multiple areas, including fixing bugs, enhancing functionality, and improving the codebase's robustness. They modified code related to request data extraction, configuration, and versioning, demonstrating a deep understanding of the gem's internal workings. They also made improvements to the test suite and initializer templates, which reflects involvement in both development and deployment processes. Their work included adding features like custom data methods and fixing compatibility issues, showcasing a broad impact on the gem's overall functionality and maintainability.
uncaught-exceptionserror-monitoringobservabilityloggingexceptions
rollbar/rollbar.js
Feb 2013 - Mar 2018
Error tracking and logging from Javascript to Rollbar
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 56 commits, 30 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the testing of the jQuery plugin, focusing on ensuring the correct behavior of error handling and event handling within the context of the Rollbar.js library. Their work involved writing and improving tests to verify the capturing of HTTP verbs and URLs for AJAX errors, and to ensure correct callback execution. They also addressed an issue related to incorrect test logic in the jQuery plugin, making it more robust, and updated the version of the plugin.
reactexpressjsloggererror-monitoringjavascript
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