Company & Team Info
RescueTime is a privately held and company in the Seattle area with 3 owner-operators (and the occasional contractor). We were funded by YCombinator in Jan. 2008, and secured Series A Financing led by True Ventures in Sept. 2008. For more information, please feel free to drop us a line.
 
Team
Tony Wright, CEO (personal site at Tony Wright dot com / on Twitter @webwright)
Tony has built and sold two web companies and has consulted with a gaggle of startups and Fortune 500 companies. His last entrepreneurial effort (Jobby - now retired) was sold to Jobster in 2006. For RescueTime, Tony works on the design/UI (with lots of feedback!), writes all of the (shamefully bad) copy, wrangles the CSS, works with Flash, dabbles in Rails code, and writes an occasional check. Tony does a mess of public speaking on information overload, productivity, and entrepreneurship. You can see Tony in action in this interview with Robert Scoble.
Joe Hruska, CTO (personal site at Joe Hruska dot com / on Twitter @JoeHruska)
Joe has a long history with multi-platform environments, having been responsible for networks that included mission critical Unix based applications, Windows desktops, and Linux database servers. His clients have included Fortune 100 companies like British Petroleum, the SAFE project for the State of Utah, Division of Child & Family Services, and non-profits like AREA - Alaska Robotics Education Association. Prior to co-founding RescueTime, Joe was the President and CTO of Integrity Solutions, Inc. a custom ISV and software integration company. ISI was successfully acquired by investors in November 2006. For RescueTime, Joe builds the data collectors for both the Mac and the PC, works on the REST web service, and does magical things with MySQL.
Brian Fioca, CIO (personal site at Brian dot Fioca dot com / on Twitter @bfioca)
Brian has over ten years of experience in architecture, design, and development of web based consumer products and enterprise services in Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Before joining RescueTime, Brian was the Lead Software Developer for the Platform team at Jobster, and contributed a large amount to the consumer-facing profiles and networking features of the site. Prior to Jobster, he served as the Chief Scientist at PangoMedia, a web design and development firm in Anchorage, Alaska, where he built Jobby, Inc. with co-founder Tony Wright - a tag based resume builder and search engine which was acquired by Jobster in 2006. Before moving to the west coast, he worked as a software developer at IBM, UPS, and Employease, in Atlanta, GA. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Southern Polytechnic State University.
Montana Low, Senior Software Developer
Montana created a company to produce point of sale systems for restaurants when he was 21 years old. More recently, he helped Brian launch the Jobster Platform, and then continued working on Natural Language Processing problems, to find innovative ways to match resumes and employment positions. At RescueTime, he plays with statistics in our massive data set, and tends to the odds and ends of running a rails based website, including new feature development. Montana studied Machine Learning and was awarded a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Portland State University.
Mark Wolgemuth, Chief Architect ( on Twitter @wogg)
Mark Wolgemuth has been holding forth on the right way to build scalable,
reliable, cheap, and fast web applications since he stuck his hands in
the engine of Employease, Inc. (acquired by ADP, Inc. 2006) in 1996. Through the years, he walked the stack from the web front door to the database by way of every system in between, and seeks to maintain a complete and comprehensive view of complex systems to improve and simplify them. With a hybrid background in operations and development, he served most recently as Manager of Production Architecture and Chief Architect for the HRB (Employease) product at ADP. He currently maintains technical chops in automated datacenter deployment and operations code, as well as application development in the Python based Django framework and Apache APR. He is also the author and maintainer of the open source mod_athena load balancer for Apache httpd. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College.
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