James Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of Bugsnag, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.
Previously, he was the CTO at Heyzap where he was instrumental in scaling the three person company to the world’s largest mobile gaming community and mobile ads platform with over 10 million users. He also worked at Bloomberg and has created a number of popular open source projects, which are used by companies such as Twitter, Pinterest and Trello.
Bugsnag is a provider of application stability management, empowering software development, client observability, and release management teams to make data-driven decisions on when to build features versus fix bugs. The company processes over 1 billion crash reports every day from applications worldwide and more than 5,000 industry leading brands including Airbnb, Slack, Pinterest, Lyft, Yelp and Pandora use Bugsnag as their daily dashboard.
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