Cory Virok
Co-founder, Board Member at Rollbar
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCory Virok is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 14 years of professional experience and nearly two decades of hands-on engineering depth, best known for shaping Rollbar from MVP to a market-leading error monitoring and observability platform. As Rollbar's founding CTO he led architecture, product engineering, and a culture of pragmatic collaboration that helped the product scale into Fortune 500 deployments. He blends full-stack development skill—demonstrated by contributions to popular open-source projects like analytics.js and Rollbar client libraries—with board-level strategic thinking as Rollbar’s current co-founder and board member. Prior roles at VMware, Lolapps, and Lumosity reinforced his expertise in scalability, performance, and growth engineering across web and mobile. Based in San Francisco, Cory pairs a developer’s attention to code quality (notably improving cross-version Ruby/JRuby compatibility and JS integrations) with the strategic instincts needed to influence an entire industry category.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyKingston University
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Github Skills (25)
monitoring10
error-reporting10
javascript10
integrate10
rollbar10
testing10
typescript10
integrations10
ruby10
exception-handling10
error-log10
typescript-types10
crash-reports10
typescripts10
coding-style10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rollbar/rollbar.js
Dec 2012 - Jun 2017
Error tracking and logging from Javascript to Rollbar
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:439 commits, 69 PRs, 137 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Cory focused on improving the codebase through a series of refactoring changes. The user's primary contributions revolved around consistent code style implementations, including modifications based on JSLint recommendations. The commits demonstrate an emphasis on maintainability by making numerous styling changes.
reactexpressjsloggererror-monitoringjavascript
rollbar/rollbar-gem
Jul 2013 - Jun 2017
Exception tracking and logging from Ruby to Rollbar
Role in this project:Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to the Rollbar gem by fixing bugs and addressing code style issues. Their work focused on resolving test failures across different Ruby versions and environments, particularly focusing on JRuby compatibility. The user also made improvements to the codebase to address style issues identified by Codacy, improving the overall quality and maintainability of the project.
uncaught-exceptionserror-monitoringobservabilityloggingexceptions
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