Jordan Ritter
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJordan Ritter is a Seattle-based technology executive, entrepreneur and advisor with 25 years of experience building high-performance engineering teams and scalable platforms. He co-founded Napster and served as its chief server architect, architecting systems that supported millions of users, and earlier worked as a senior security researcher who disclosed a remote privilege escalation that impacted roughly 80% of the Internet at the time. More recently he has founded and led AI-focused startups, driving product pivots, SOC 2 readiness, and integrations across multiple acquisitions to deliver enterprise-ready, AI-powered productivity and security solutions. A hands-on technologist, he contributes to low-level tooling and observability—work shown by contributions to the ngrep packet analyzer and instrumentation in the New Relic Ruby agent—bridging network/security depth with application-level monitoring. He combines technical rigor with commercial instincts, repeatedly positioning ventures for growth, revenue, and acquisition.
25 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (25)
datamapper10
network-analysis10
instrumentation10
filters10
c1110
ruby10
c1710
ip-filter10
regular-expression10
filter10
regular-expressions10
filtering10
apm-agent9
vlan9
ipv69
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jpr5/ngrep
Sep 2000 - Jan 2019
ngrep is like GNU grep applied to the network layer. It's a PCAP-based tool that allows you to specify an extended regular or hexadecimal expression to match against data payloads of packets. It understands many kinds of protocols, including IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw, across a wide variety of interface types, and understands BPF filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 359 commits, 5 PRs in 18 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `ngrep` tool, which is a command-line network packet analyzer. Their commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing core functionality, fixing bugs, and optimizing performance. The user modified and extended the codebase to add support for new features such as IPv6 and VLANs, and refactored parts of the code for improved maintainability.
bpfpacketssniffingipv4traffic-analysis
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Sep 2010 - Oct 2010
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:Jordan's primary focus was on instrumenting the DataMapper ORM within the New Relic Ruby Agent. They refactored existing instrumentation, added method tracers to various DataMapper classes and instances to capture database operations. The user also worked on logging SQL queries, and incorporating metrics. There was an emphasis on adapting the instrumentation to align with existing AR instrumentation within New Relic.
agentrpmapm-agentrubyruby-agent
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