Ben Ritter

Co-Founder

Seattle, Washington, United States18 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in launching networking software products.
  • Proven track record in network performance optimization.
  • Authoring a book on TCP/IP network performance.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Networking and SaaS Product Management expert.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product Strategy

Other Skills

Network SecurityNetworkingLinuxFirewallsInformation SecurityTCP/IPBorder Gateway Protocol (BGP)Software as a Service (SaaS)Distributed Systems

About

I'm a product and engineering leader with a proven track record of launching and scaling networking software products and operating global networks. My experience spans network performance optimization, data center routing and overlays, internet and WAN edge networking, latency reduction, and security insertion. What drives me is the unique blend of diving into technical details with engineering while navigating the broad, dynamic demands of product management. No two days are ever the same. Outside of work, I'm writing a book on TCP/IP network performance and latency, exploring interactions between TCP congestion control and network device queueing. I am a self-described network and product nerd.

Experience

18 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Amazon

Product Management

May 2024Present · 2 yrs · Redmond, WA

  • Network Products at Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper), B2B Private Networking

Cloudflare

3 roles

Product Management

Nov 2022May 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Product Manager for Magic Transit (an anycast L3 DDoS mitigation product)
  • Product Manager for Cloudflare Network Interconnect
Product Strategy

Product Management

Jan 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Product Manager for IP Address Management, Bring your own IP Address (BYOIP), Static IP, and GeoIP products.
  • Special Project: China Network Performance
Product Strategy

Edge Network Engineering

Apr 2019Jan 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • BGP traffic engineering, anycast, network automation for multiple network routing platforms, point of presence architecture and expansion, TCP congestion control optimization

Cumulus networks

Manager Network Consulting

Nov 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • (Cumulus Networks developed a Linux based whitebox network operating system for the data center and was acquired by Mellanox and NVIDIA)
Product Strategy

Cisco systems

2 roles

Technical Lead

May 2016Nov 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Network Consulting Engineer

Jul 2013Jan 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

Sourcefire

Network Security Engineering Lead

Jan 2015May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Isaac robotics, llc

Co-Founder

Mar 2012Mar 2014 · 2 yrs · Los Angeles, CA

Trailer park

Linux Systems Administrator

Jul 2011Jul 2013 · 2 yrs · Los Angeles, CA

Glendale unified school district

IT Technician

Jul 2007Jul 2011 · 4 yrs · Glendale, California, United States

Education

California State University, Northridge

Bachelor of Science — Information Systems

Pasadena City College

Information Systems

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