Brian, grinding coffee on a 2 day rock climb in Yosemite Valley

Brian was bitten by the coffee bug during the summer of 2002 while on a three month rock climbing vacation in Grenoble, France. Over the next few years, the bug drove him into home roasting, coffee school, SCAA conventions, roasting classes and eventually roasting on a Diedrich IR7. In 2008, he realized the need for a professional logging system for coffee roasters. Since then he's been focusing on building the RoastLog team and product.

Brian is the driving force behind the company, moving the business forward and providing the engineering and programming skills that are the backbone of our applications. His background is in engineering and software development. When not working on RoastLog, you can probably find him rock climbing, cycling or at some nerdy software conference.

Brian lives in Alameda, CA with his lovely wife, their twin boys and cat, Captain.

Linsey drives company strategy, sales and marketing at RoastLog. He's believed in the potential of RoastLog from the start. After a brief hiatus, Linsey rejoined the team and never looked back.

Over the last 15 years, Linsey has served in management roles leading marketing, sales and service operations. Early in his career, Linsey worked directly with customers to identify solutions that would advance their science. These experiences shaped his perspectives around product usability and design while helping him establish a successful track record of introducing disruptive technologies.

For over half his career, Linsey contributed to the development of hardware, software and biological reagents used in biomedical and life science research laboratories. While finding it tremendously fulfilling, recent changes in the industry and working in a corporate environment made him fully appreciate the hard work, discipline and rewards of working in a start-up.

A California native, Linsey enjoys cycling the hills around the San Francisco Bay Area, spending time in the Sierra Nevada mountains and doing just about anything with his wife, toddler and their geriatric Chinook - as long as it's outdoors.

Linsey, at a *secret* camping spot in the Sierras.

Ryan, helping a small child with snow gear

Ryan is in charge of User Experience and User Interactions at RoastLog. What the heck does that mean? What he builds is what you see when you use RoastLog. He realizes that the coolest software which can do the most amazingly useful things is pretty useless if it, well, sucks to use. Ryan believes in designing software for the people who use it, and he will not stop until he sees people using RoastLog with happy looks on their faces.

Brian and Ryan met in the computer science program at San Francisco State University where they partnered in an operating systems course. They kept infrequent contact until Brian was looking for some programming help on a little project which is now RoastLog.

Ryan lives in Alameda, CA with his wife and two children. He started drinking coffee after starting work with RoastLog and still at times likens it to licking a tree.