About FiveRuns

FiveRuns delivers elegant and affordable products helping developers monitor, analyze, troubleshoot and simply improve the performance and availability of their Ruby on Rails applications.

Our Raison D’être

Our mission is to deliver simple, intuitive user experiences where important product benefits can be attained in minutes. Our software products are designed to mask the complexity of what they do because we don’t believe that complex management requires complex monitoring tools, nor streams of meaningless data.

Our products are written in Ruby and Ruby on Rails and delivered to market by an experienced management team and expert Ruby developers. Our goal is to further the adoption of Ruby on Rails by offering a suite of products that delight and add compelling value to both Rails developers and systems administrators alike.

Board of Directors

FiveRuns was founded in 2005 and is based in Austin, Texas.

The Team

The FiveRuns team is made up seasoned Ruby developers, web application, and systems management experts who actively participate in the regional and international Ruby communities — at Ruby and Rails conferences, local user group meetings or by sponsoring projects and other important industry events.

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Todd Barr
Open source is a force that is changing the software industry forever and Todd is excited to be at the intersection of where communities and companies meet.
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Todd Barr

VP Business Development

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Dean Cruse

Dean has been leading marketing teams for software and Internet companies for over 24 years now, and has become even more passionate about marketing in the Ruby on Rails space. In addition to running point on all of FiveRuns inbound marketing and outbound business development efforts, Dean leads the company's charge in using social media technologies and other communications tools to build digital relationships with the Rails community.

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Dean Cruse

VP Marketing

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Brian Dainton
A ten-year veteran of Austin high-tech startups, Brian has taken over a dozen commercial applications from napkin sketch to general availability. Originally a Java developer of 12 years, he began working with Rails in late 2006 and later joined FiveRuns to develop Ruby professionally.
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Brian Dainton

Software Developer

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Eric Falcao
Eric is a software developer at FiveRuns who has a passion for Internet startups and the business of software. Formerly of the .NET world, Eric is glad to be a part of the Ruby and Rails community and an advocate for the great startup climate in Austin.
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Eric Falcao

Developer

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Rachel Gallaway
Rachel has been running Support, and now Services, at FiveRuns since 2006 and lives for the occassional tweet about how great it is to deal with the FiveRuns Support team.
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Rachel Gallaway

Director of Support Services

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Theo Kambouris
Theo started his kick boxing training early. A Southern California Native, his early days were spent on the beach of Huntington... Looking for a fight. For money, he worked in the music industry as sales rep for a major guitar manufacturer. Just as things were going well, Theo’s girlfriend was kidnapped and taken to San Francisco. He knew he would have to save her... The old fashioned way. He entered a kick boxing circuit and knew if he made it to the top, he could bring her home.
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Theo Kambouris

Evangelist

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Adam Keys
Adam Keys is a software developer, entertainer and lover of animals. He's written software in too many languages to name at startups, small businesses and Fortune 100 giants. His philosophy of coding is to write less code and have more fun writing it. 
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Adam Keys

Rubyist/Raconteur

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Mindy Klement
Mindy has helped Fortune 500 and start-up companies optimize their marketing strategies, communications and brands throughout her fifteen year career.  She is excited to be applying this knowledge in the Rails space, working with FiveRuns. 
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Mindy Klement

Director of Marketing Communications

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John Payton
John is basically a wannabe techie.  He is analytical by nature and wants to make sure that he gets the best answer for his prospects and customers.  With a background in marketing and sales, and a passion for entrepreneurship, John enjoys working in the Rails space. 
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John Payton

Evangelist

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Mike Perham
Mike built his first open source application in 1995 using C and Win32.  He's a member of the Apache Project and recently starting working with Ruby and Rails professionally after a decade in the J2EE world. 
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Mike Perham

Software Developer

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Mark Reynolds
Mark has worked with Austin technology startups for the last 13 years.  Collaborating with IT, Support and Dev teams has always been exciting, but now it's even more fun using Ruby, Rails and OSS to take over the world. 
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Mark Reynolds

Knowledge Curator

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Steve Sanderson
Steve is a maker of software products. With an emphasis on products that are simple and elegant, he blends his passions for solving problems in software, creating something of true value and working with bright and creative people to lead those product development efforts.
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Steve Sanderson

VP Development & Technology

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Oliver Schmelzle
Oliver loves creating and delivering new software products in fast-paced, emerging markets. He has worked in various product management roles for small and large software companies alike. Before joining FiveRuns, he was a Group Product Manager in Symantec's Norton consumer security division which had acquired local Austin company WholeSecurity.
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Oliver Schmelzle

Director of Product Management

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Matt Swain

Matt has been a long-time *nix geek and loves trying to automate himself out of a job.  He enjoys working very closely with developers on custom applications, and he has been doing exactly that since 2001.  A recent veteran of Symantec's anti-phisihing 24x7 ops team, Matt currently manages FiveRuns's internal and external computing infrastructures.

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Matt Swain

Information Services Manager

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Oliver Thierry
The opportunity to apply over thirty years of successful software industry experience and leadership to new avenues of technology is what motivates and inspires OT. He is passionate about building and driving high-performance teams to achieve extraordinary results for customers, employees and shareholders alike.
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Oliver Thierry

President & CEO

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Greg Willis
"So, how much software do you want to buy?"  Actually, no, that's not how FiveRuns Evangelist Greg Willis rolls.  In fact, it was the used car sales approach that turned Greg away from such empty smarmy-ness and into an arena where building relationships, making friends, and understanding the demands of a new market actually help people grow their businesses from the ground up. 
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Greg Willis

Evangelist