Lew Cirne
| Lew Cirne | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 21, 1970 Canada |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | US Citizen |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Occupation | Computer Scientist, CEO |
| Employer | New Relic |
| Known for | Application Performance Management |
| Website | lewsblog |
Lewis Karl "Lew" Cirne (born February 21, 1970) is a Canadian-American Silicon Valley-based technologist and entrepreneur who promotes software analytics technology.
Cirne pioneered application performance management (APM) software technology as the founder and CEO of Wily Technology, which was acquired by CA, Inc. in March 2006. Cirne founded the company New Relic in 2008.
Lew Cirne was raised in Port Hope, Ontario. His parents, Geoff and Jean Cirne, were immigrants to Canada from Manchester, England. Cirne attended Trinity College School and in 1993 received an A.B. from Dartmouth College with a major in Computer Science. After college, Cirne held senior technical positions at Apple and Hummingbird Communications.
In 1998, Cirne founded Wily Technology. He was responsible for developing Wily Technology's vision of enterprise class application performance management and is credited with bringing it to the Java platform. Cirne was one of the chief technologists and driving force in enterprise application performance and availability. He served as Wily Technology's President and Chief Executive Officer until October 2001.
In 2008, Cirne began focusing on the software as a service model while an entrepreneur in residence for Benchmark Capital and founded New Relic. New Relic is a SaaS provider of Web application performance management. New Relic's technology monitors Web and mobile applications in real-time that run in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.
"New Relic" is an anagram of Lew Cirne's name.
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