Patrick Lightbody talks to us about Synthetics.

A crash test dummy for your software.

http://newrelic.com/synthetics

Come join us as we kick off 2015!!

New location! We are back downtown thanks to CrowdCompass by Cvent. I can't wait to see their new digs!

Awesome speaker! Patrick has been super busy since he moved back to Portland. Come join us has he tells the story of Synthetics and how to tackle the tough quality & test automation problems.

Patrick Lightbody Vice President of Product Management

Patrick came to New Relic after founding several startups, most recently BrowserMob (acquired by Neustar), a cloud load testing and monitoring service. Previously he’s held management and engineering roles at Jive Software, Gomez (acquired by Compuware) and Cisco Systems.

Patrick is an avid open source contributor, most notably helping launch the Selenium browser automation project and Apache Struts 2.0. He’s also published two books on open source development. Patrick holds a BS in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego.