Russel Estardo

Foodie. AI Technologist. Human.

[Rootly @rootlyhq]

Toronto Tech Week is a marathon. Back-to-back sessions, late nights, and a calendar that doesn't breathe.

So Rootly did doing something different. A yoga session with airess, built for women in tech who need a moment to recharge before charging back in.

Thank you to everyone who showed up and got on the mat with Rootly 🧘

[Rootly @rootlyhq]

Toronto Tech Week 2026 is taking over the city next week. And Rootly is hosting 5 events throughout the week.

🛠️ Sun May 24: @TechTO Hackathon. 12 hours, theme is AI personal assistants, with @rootlyhq, @ElevenLabs, blackoboardio, Motion, Codalio, and Tangerine.

🚀 Mon May 25: Toronto Tech Week 2026 Kickoff. Secure and reliable infra night with @Tailscale, @posthog, Ribbon, and Rootly. 331 going, currently waitlist only.

📈 Tue May 26: Scaling Engineering After Product-Market Fit. Panel with engineering leaders from Microsoft, Maple, commonsku, and Rootly. Moderated by Catherine Graham (CEO, commonsku).

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

If you're in the Bay Area and want to level up your #reliability game join us next week. #incidentmanagement #sre

[Rootly @rootlyhq]

Ian Sinnott joined @AnthropicAI six months ago at $9B in ARR. The company just passed $30B.

That's not a marketing number. That's a scaling problem.

April 28 in SF. He's on a panel with three engineering leaders who've lived their own version of it:

– @quentinrousseau, CTO of @rootlyhq
– Zhen Lu, CEO of @runpod
– @ekampf, VP Eng at @TwingateHQ

Four stacks. Four bottlenecks. One conversation about what breaks when the curve goes vertical.

RSVP → https://t.co/c3KBUWDdRc

[patricia_dugan @patricia_dugan]

2/26 📺 Join me for our next Publisher Connect Meetup covering Best Practices for API Growth!

Speakers:
Ming Zhu, Solutions Architect, @awscloud
@SylvainKalache, Head of AI Labs, @rootlyhq
@PhilippeOzil, Principal DA, @SalesforceDevs

Sign up here: https://t.co/pzzZrxYEjm

[Rootly @rootlyhq]

We’re hosting Toronto’s first OpenClaw demo night! We’ve got an exciting lineup with leaders sharing how they’re taking OpenClaw beyond an ‘interesting toy’ (and how they’re doing it safely).

– Agent coordinating content production, open source contributions, and engineering projects w/ Nicole Bu (Windriver)
– Gathering incident responders' health and adjusting on-call rotation w/ @SylvainKalache (Rootly)
– “Enterprise” OpenClaw: how to set it up on AWS with IAM rules w/@sergical (Sentry)
– Clawcity demo and building apps for OpenClaw agents w/ Michael Shimeles (Convex)
– Helping plan buy, manage inventory for an upcoming firstborn with w/ @surim0n (Red Brick Labs)

We’ll giving away a Mac mini and Claude Code subscriptions to attendees. DigitalOcean will be offering free credits!

[JJ Tang (Rootly) @jjrichardtang]

Pricing is broken (seriously).

So today, @rootlyhq is making a big, unconventional bet.

If you’re <25 employees: 𝐏𝐚𝐲 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐂𝐚𝐧—$25, $10, or even $1 if you’re really early. You decide.

Why?

Because building a startup is brutal. I’ve lived it.

You get nickel-and-dimed at every turn. Shipping is hard. Iterating is hard. And making things reliable on top of that? Even harder.

And honestly — we don’t make our money on startups. We grow with enterprises. Customers like @Cisco, @SailPoint, and @elastic are what make this possible.

That puts us in a position to give back.

We are truly making reliability accessible to everyone and putting our money where our mouth is.

All the details are on our startups page 👇

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

Being on call is often the most stressful part of an engineer's job. The 3:00 a.m. pages, alert fatigue, and the "always-on" anxiety can lead to #burnout faster than almost any other factor in #SRE. @rootlyhq is tackling this head-on with: On-Call Health.

[Sylvain Kalache @SylvainKalache]

We are launching the largest open-source initiative in @rootlyhq's history: On-Call Health

It helps engineering teams ensure their on-call responders aren't overworked or at risk of burnout.

Try it right now at https://t.co/Cxu20mdVJ2. We provide mock data, no setup required.

[Santiago @svpino]

This is a billion-dollar idea!

This is an open-source tool that detects signs of burnout in employees before it becomes a problem.

The project is called On-Call Health, and here's how it works:

It combines two types of signals:

1. Objective data from tools like PagerDuty, Slack, GitHub, Linear, and Jira. Think of incident volume, after-hours pages, number of tasks, etc.

2. Self-reported check-ins. These are short surveys asking engineers how they actually feel.

Based on both, the application computes a burnout risk score.

For example, if you have someone on your team who's been troubleshooting multiple incidents outside working hours, the tool will signal you should check in with them.

Something that's really interesting:

The tool measures everything against individual and team baselines. It tracks trends over time rather than comparing people against each other.

They also use LLMs to summarize changes and give managers a quick readout before weekly reviews.

While none of this is medical advice, and scores are purely indicative, a tool like this can surface patterns that you wouldn't notice otherwise.

100% free. You can self-host it or use their hosted version.

I'm linking to it below:

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

@nayaraisin @MongoDB @rootlyhq @nayaraisin , happy to chat! https://t.co/BfASUyTcr4

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

The #SuperBowl LX vibe in SF w/ @rootlyhq , @mintlify, &amp; @braintrust boba pop-up and it’s peak "Founder Mode." 🧋🏈 #OnlyInSF #AI #BobaVibes

[Jonathan Chang @thechangj]

Only in SF will the boba shops be sponsored by tech companies

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

@liminalsunset_ @thechangj It was free if you follow @rootlyhq for more pop-up events! https://t.co/tvvKobbt1w

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

@nayaraisin @thechangj @MongoDB @MongoDB , we'd be down to collab for @rootlyhq events! 😍

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

@wildpinesai @thechangj @dromarin It was all @rootlyhq marketing team! 🧋

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

@thechangj I'm glad you stopped by there! Follow-up for more pop-up's like this one. https://t.co/tvvKobbt1w

[Rootly @rootlyhq]

This Friday @rootlyhq, @mintlify, and @braintrust are taking over Feng Cha Teahouse in Yerba Buena Gardens to serve free bobas to all Super Bowl LX fans! 🎉

Stop by, say hi, and grab a Purple Pager boba while you’re enjoying the Super Bowl Week festivities in the heart of the city.

RSVP here: https://t.co/lxI2mbFE1a

[Rootly @rootlyhq]

What a way to kick off KubeCon! Huge thanks to the 300+ Cloud Native builders who joined us to share challenges, lessons, and what’s working for them in the AI and reliability era.

Appreciate our partners @cloudsmith, @authzed, @checklyHQ, @itmethods, and @atolio for making the night possible.

[Rootly @rootlyhq]

Find the Rootly crew at KubeCon NA! Swing by our booth (#2050) to talk all things reliability and learn how you could win a pair of AirPods Max!

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

It was great seeing you @techgirl1908 ! :)

[Rootly @rootlyhq]

Thanks to the 300+ engineering leaders who joined us for our Happy Hour during LeadDev NYC!

You could feel the energy in the room. AI is reshaping how engineering organizations build, collaborate, and lead, and it was incredible to hear firsthand how teams are adapting to this new era.

Shoutout to our partners from @blocks @goose_oss for making this event possible!

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

Come join us for a #HappyHour w/ @techgirl1908 (@blocks) for #LeadDev #NYC!

[Rootly @rootlyhq]

Attending LeadDev NYC? Join us for a Happy Hour with our friends from @blocks Goose at a chic restaurant in Times Square 🗽 for gourmet bites, craft drinks, and great conversations.

We’re thrilled to welcome @techgirl1908, VP of Engineering at Block, as our special guest. Angie will be giving a talk at LeadDev on AI tooling and adoption. If you attend her session, don’t miss this chance to continue the conversation.

Join us and connect with fellow engineering leaders who are shaping the future of the industry.

[Russel Estardo @restardox]

If you’re diving into Site #Reliability Engineering, this list of folks is a goldmine of insights. They’re shaping the future of reliability, scaling systems, and sharing hard-won lessons from the trenches. #SRE #Observability

[Rootly @rootlyhq]

Modern tech stacks are a tower of dependencies: AI models on orchestration frameworks on GPU clouds on global networks. Pull one link and the whole illusion crumbles.

The Reliability Top 50 honors the people who keep that tower upright: translating SLOs into uptime, turning postmortems into industry standards, and teaching us how to fail more gracefully.

They’re the reason “always-on” is possible. This is their year.