Brian Ritter
Staff Software Engineer (frontend) at Homeward
Flat Rock, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ritter is a Staff Frontend Engineer with 15 years of experience building web products and leading engineering teams, currently shaping React-driven experiences at Homeward. A co-founder and former CTO of AMBR Detroit, he led delivery for nearly 100 clients and 500+ releases, blending hands-on development with client-facing product strategy. He brings full-stack fluency—modern frontends, Node.js backends, AWS infrastructure—and a long habit of owning architecture, sprint planning, and developer onboarding. Brian takes particular pride in code reviews and knowledge sharing, actively mentoring engineers and improving team practices. His background includes leading a ground-up rebuild of Domino’s online ordering and building prototype TV-to-mobile web platforms at Backboard, showing a knack for pragmatic innovation across consumer and enterprise products. Based in Flat Rock, Michigan, he combines entrepreneurial experience with steady execution on production-grade, user-facing systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E, Computer Engineering, B.S.E, Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (65)
expressjs10
rest-api10
backend10
relay10
graphql-api10
mbaas10
pinch10
parse-platform10
rotate10
gestures10
parse-server10
object-storage10
graphql-relay10
multi-touch10
nodejs10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
simplrteam/SimplrJS
May 2011 - Mar 2015
Contributions:99 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 3 years 10 months
javascript-frameworkjavascriptframeworkmvcmvc-architecture
AMBRDetroit/starters
May 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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