Jordan Ritter

Early life Jordan Ritter was born in Northridge, California and grew up in Texas and Florida. Ritter skipped the 5th grade when he was 10, and later went on to graduate from the International Baccalaureate Program at Hillsborough High School. Ritter attended college at Lehigh University on scholarship, starting as a sophomore and pursuing a double major in music and computer science. He dropped out in 1998, relocating to Boston, Massachusetts At the time, this affected approximately 80% of all computers on the Internet.

Early in 1999, Netect was purchased by BindView. Ritter was retained in the acquisition.

Napster While working for BindView, Ritter met Shawn Fanning online through an IRC channel for computer hackers called #!w00w00. In May 1999, Fanning began soliciting Ritter and several other w00w00 members for help. Ritter also oversaw the Moderator Community, a group of individuals who volunteered their free time to help moderate the various socially-focused portions of the Napster service. the CME Board of Directors voted to terminate all R&D projects in March 2008.

Ritter left CME in April 2008.

Zivity After returning from Japan, Ritter was asked by Zivity Founders Scott Banister and Cyan Banister to advise the company on internal engineering management issues. Shortly afterwards, Ritter joined as CTO in order to overhaul the engineering organization while a CEO search was being conducted. In December 2008, a new CEO was appointed and Ritter left the company.

Ritter is an investor in Zivity.

CloudCrowd/Servio Ritter founded crowdsourcing company CloudCrowd with Alex Edelstein in April 2009. 6 months later, CloudCrowd officially launched its work platform on Facebook. In December 2010 the company renamed itself Servio while retaining the CloudCrowd brand, in order to more effectively differentiate the value propositions between online work and the crowdsourced work product.

As CTO, Ritter oversaw all architectural design and development of the company's services, systems and production infrastructure. As Head of Engineering, he also directly managed all Engineering, Ops, IT and QA personnel.

Ritter left Servio in December 2012.

Atlas Recall Atlas Recall is a search engine for an individual's information normally stored in different email and storage systems.

Other accomplishments Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Most Brilliant Companies", June 2010 Nominated for Software Designer of the Year, WIRED Rave Awards, 2002 Interviewed in Playboy Magazine, April 2001 Member of InfoWorld CTO Advisory Council, 2001 Co-author of 4 US patents and 2 EU patents

Open-source Ritter is a lifelong contributor to open-source software and the free software movement.

Notable software projects include: ngrep orapp mongo-locking distributed locking service in Ruby for MongoDB DataObjects SQL API layer for Ruby DataMapper ORM framework for Ruby DataMapper Salesforce adapter