Lew Cirne
Founder And Chairman at New Relic, Inc.
Marble Falls, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLew Cirne is a veteran technologist and serial founder with 18+ years building observability and performance software, best known for founding New Relic and leading its product and engineering vision. He combines deep hands-on engineering—contributing to core agents like the New Relic Ruby RPM—with executive leadership across startups, venture, and enterprise roles from Wily to CA. Now based in Marble Falls, Texas, he chairs the Gamaliel Project and several philanthropic and cultural initiatives, blending product-focused entrepreneurship with mission-driven giving. A Dartmouth computer science alumnus whose first computer arrived in 1982, he brings both historical perspective and ongoing curiosity to modern cloud and AI-era challenges.
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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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (8)
apm-agent10
ruby10
ruby-rails9
ruby-on-rails9
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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