Ritchie Martori
Chief Architect at Voxel51
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRitchie Martori is a seasoned software architect with 15 years building developer-facing platforms and realtime APIs, currently serving as Chief Architect at Voxel51. He co-created the influential Node.js frameworks Deployd and LoopBack, contributing deep core and datasource improvements that helped shape modern API tooling. His career blends startup founding experience with enterprise UX and API leadership at IBM, demonstrating an ability to scale both codebases and teams. Comfortable across back-end and front-end stacks, Ritchie has driven TypeScript refactors, routing/binding design, and UI refinements for project sites. Based in Phoenix, he combines pragmatic engineering with a penchant for clean framework design and developer ergonomics. An often-understated strength is his track record of turning prototype toolkits into widely adopted open-source frameworks.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Phoenix College
Github Skills (36)
application-framework10
apim10
javascript10
website-development10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
css10
app-framework10
typescript10
j10
orm10
api10
loopback10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
deployd/deployd
Sep 2011 - Nov 2013
a toolkit for building realtime APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:552 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ritchie's contributions focused on implementing and refining back-end functionality within the "deployd/deployd" repository, a toolkit for building real-time APIs. They were responsible for initial documentation, including the addition of files like `lib/controller/user.js`. Key contributions involved refactoring Model inheritance and adding tests within the model code.
apirealtimeclient-libraryjavascriptwebsocket
loopbackio/loopback-datasource-juggler
May 2013 - Jun 2016
Connect Loopback to various Data Sources
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ritchie primarily contributed to enhancing the Loopback data source functionality. Their work involved adding features to attach data sources to existing models, including defining and mixing in data access object methods. They also added an example of attaching a data source to an existing model and made updates to remoting signatures for DAO methods. This indicates a focus on improving the core data source capabilities of the Loopback framework.
ormdata-sourcessourcesloopback
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