Ralph Bodenner
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRalph Bodenner is a senior product manager and seasoned software leader based in Portland, Oregon, with over 16 years of hands-on experience delivering customer-focused SaaS and observability products. He’s driven cross-functional strategy from engineering to go-to-market at New Relic—leading initiatives that grew OpenTelemetry adoption 5x, increased Logs MAU by >30% annually, and launched a low-cost archival storage product. Comfortable alternating between code and product, he has contributed backend improvements to the widely used New Relic Ruby agent, optimizing CPU and memory sampling. Known for getting things done with limited resources, he blends deep technical literacy (from early engineering roles and Amazon SDE work) with pragmatic product vision that wins executive buy-in. After a modern sabbatical of ultrarunning, drumming, and language study, he’s returned to product leadership with renewed energy and a knack for translating complex telemetry challenges into simple, valuable customer outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Duke University
English, German, Japanese, Ukrainian
Github Skills (6)
agent10
apm-agent10
jruby10
performance-optimization10
ruby10
activerecord8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Sep 2009 - Jun 2010
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ralph primarily contributed to the New Relic Ruby Agent, focusing on improvements to CPU and memory sampling. They addressed bugs related to JRuby CPU usage, implemented platform-specific checks, and optimized the agent's performance. The commits show modifications to the agent's controller instrumentation and included changes to the memory sampler, external service instrumentation, and AR instrumentation, highlighting their work on agent functionality and accuracy.
newrelicrubyagentapm-agent
rkbodenner/dotfiles
May 2016 - Oct 2025
Contributions:5 pushes in 9 years 6 months
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