Richard Roggenkemper is a Senior Software Engineer at Sentry with six years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing analytics for a widely used error tracking and performance platform. He’s worked across Sentry’s Issues and Discover teams, modernizing analytics and replacing deprecated functions to improve observability workflows. Based in New York and grounded in a BA in Computer Science and Data Science from UC Berkeley, he combines strong engineering chops with teaching experience as an instructor and mentor at Berkeley. Richard has a track record of shipping features from internship to senior roles at the same company, and he’s recently applied LLM-based approaches to issue management—bringing emerging ML tools into production developer tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic implementer who values clear analytics and incremental improvements that scale.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Data Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Data Science at University of California, Berkeley
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bellarmine College Preparatory
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1058 reviews, 50 commits, 900 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard's commits primarily focused on converting and improving Discover analytics within the Sentry platform. They updated analytics tracking by replacing deprecated functions with new ones and made specific changes to the codebase. The changes were related to implementing new features for the "Discover" section of the platform, touching several frontend files.
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Richard Roggenkemper - Senior Software Engineer at Sentry