Jordan Mendelson

Current

• Senior Product Manager at LinkedIn
• Fellow at Science Commons

Past

• Founder & CEO at Heavy Electrons, Inc.
• Founder & Chief Architect at SNOCAP
• Chief Architect at Napster

• Founder & Systems/Network Administrator at Web Services, Inc.
• Senior Systems Administrator at Thidwave Information Services

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Jordan Mendelson’s Summary

I'm best known for building the Napster backend software including real-time search and chat and scaling it up to 80 million users.

I've founded multiple companies. My last one was SNOCAP. It was a real-time copyright clearinghouse that allowed P2P systems to identify content, retrieve licensing information for it and make payments. SNOCAP became the primary MySpace storefront for music.

At heart I'm a problem solver and strive to improve things around me. I've managed engineering teams, implemented agile project management, worked in product development and operations.

I enjoy building companies that I can be passionate about and I make it a point to pick up whatever slack exists. That has led me to being very well rounded. I have experience in all aspects of business, product and technology development.

Jordan Mendelson’s Specialties:

scaling very large software systems, product development, agile project management, user generated content systems, software engineering, server architecture, business development, search algorithms, information retrieval, web technologies, music copyright law, network administration, systems administration, recommendation systems, cryptography, trust management, c++, c, python, php, java, perl, pl/sql, sql, django, linux

Jordan Mendelson’s Experience

• Senior Product Manager

  LinkedIn

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  June 2009 — Present (2 months)

• Fellow

  Science Commons

  (Non-Profit; Internet industry)

  May 2009 — Present (3 months)

• Founder & CEO

  Heavy Electrons, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  October 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 9 months)

  Startup focused on building strong online communities around conversations. Forums 2.0.

• Founder & Chief Architect

  SNOCAP

  (Privately Held; Music industry)

  August 2002 — October 2007 (5 years 3 months)

  I worked on all key aspects of the business including business plans, finance forecasting, prototype development, patents, investment pitches, project management, engineering management, software architecture, copyright law, engineering management, database design, systems administration, network administration, security analysis and hiring.
  
  I designed the technology for SNOCAP including a real-time file identification service for P2P services designed to handle 3 million lookups per second, a collaborative music file identification system to recommend works a music label may own and a real-time rights management system for music labels.

• Chief Architect

  Napster

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; NAPS; Internet industry)

  August 1999 — August 2002 (3 years 1 month)

  Designed, implemented and operated Napster's backend server software. At its peak it handled 80 million registered users with 2.3 million users using the service simultaneously and growing at 1 million users every 4 days. The software utilized a fault-tolerant architecture running off of low-end commodity hardware on Linux.
  
  Projects included a real-time search engine (17.6 million files indexed and de-indexed per second), collaborative filtering system for recommendations, court-ordered filtering systems for copyright management, passive and active abuse monitoring systems, a complete chat/instant messaging system able support millions of users simultaneously, service available monitoring systems, kernel debugging, search optimization based on network distance and scaling our web servers systems to support the significant traffic we encountered.
  
  I was also involved in evaluating third-party technologies and companies for acquisition, patents and hardware and software purchases.

• Founder & Systems/Network Administrator

  Web Services, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 1 month)

  Systems and network administration for a tri-state Internet Service Provider with multiple physical locations. I handled all manner of open source software for NFS, mail, name servers, shell servers, transparent web caches, web servers and dial-up servers.
  
  I was deeply involved with the open source community and constantly supplied patches and changes necessary to help their software scale and work for our needs including virtual POP support, SQL-backed RADIUS AAA, transparent web caching failover and OSPF routing interoperability with Cisco equipment.
  
  I handled all network administration including abuse reports, security violation reports, security auditing and was involved with the internet security industry.
  
  I also handled network bandwidth acquisition, point to point network drops, telco support and monitoring.

• Senior Systems Administrator

  Thidwave Information Services

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 1994 — August 1996 (2 years 1 month)

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