Jordan RitterFounder

United States - Seattle, Washington

I’m an accomplished software architect and technical entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building some of the world’s most well-known software. I’m a pragmatic leader with a diverse breadth of engineering and management experience, recognized for building great teams and products users love. My passion for excellence is a point of pride that motivates and inspires others around me to exceed themselves.

Engineering
- Built 20+ commercial & open-source products across 12 programming languages, and familiar with more
- Built 3 sophisticated cloud-based architectures, each scaling to support millions of users/transactions
- Extensive first-hand experience building & managing complex applications, services and systems, from 0-scale
- Broad experience across a diverse range of platforms and programming paradigms

Management
- Experienced technical executive who still loves to code, with proven leadership & management capabilities
- Respected leader able to recruit, retain & inspire top technical & management talent (Seattle’s 100 Best Places to Work 2015 & 2016)
- Built & managed 5 engineering, 2 product and 2 executive teams across 5 companies
- International experience with building teams, shipping products, and language & cultural integration
- Companies have raised a combined total of 80MM
- Companies have made a combined total of 500MM+