Lincoln Ritter
Chief Technology Officer at Supply Trace
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLincoln Ritter is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with two decades of experience designing mission-critical systems and scaling teams for high-growth organizations. He specializes in enterprise integration, data engineering, and cloud architecture, and brings deep Ruby/Rails and service-oriented architecture expertise to distributed production systems. As an early engineer and principal at FireHydrant, he helped build the incident management plumbing used by companies like Asana and CircleCI, including high-volume paging and rich tool integrations that prioritize user experience during crises. At Animoto he founded the data engineering and analytics practice, drove a shift to service-oriented design, and twice steered engineering through pivotal transitions as Interim Head of Engineering. Comfortable at both hands-on implementation and strategic technical leadership, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a strong focus on operational resilience and measurable business impact. Outside core responsibilities he has a history of shipping early-stage, user-focused products—from the original Walk Score iPhone app to pioneering NLP-based recruitment tooling—revealing a knack for turning research and prototypes into widely used software.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science and Engineering - Graphics, MS Computer Science and Engineering - Graphics at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Oberlin College
English
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Github Skills (37)
rails8
ruby8
mvc7
ruby-on-rails7
html7
activerecord6
flash6
iphone6
amazon-web-services6
javascript-client6
browser5
javascript5
ruby-wrapper4
syntax-highlighting4
php3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
animoto/platform_engineer_interview
Sep 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 7 months
laravelphpweb-service
lritter/lritter.github.io
May 2019 - Jun 2024
Github Pages repository for this account
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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