Education
Cirne attended Trinity College School and in 1993 received an Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College with a major in Computer Science.
Cirne attended Trinity College School and in 1993 received an Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College with a major in Computer Science.
Cirne founded the company New Relic in 2008. Lew Cirne was raised in Portuguese Hope, Ontario. 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.