RampRate Team
Steve Hotz
Chief Technology Officer
As Chief Technology Officer of RampRate, Steve Hotz is responsible for aligning RampRate’s service offerings to address emerging technology standards and best practices, and providing key analysis of client’s performance, scalability and reliability requirements. Additionally, Steve leads the effort to extend and productize RampRate’s internal SPY Index into the SPY Dashboard: an outward-facing suite of tools that enables both buyers and vendors to access a more fluid IT sourcing market by merging RampRate’s proprietary data and evaluation process with best in class performance tools.
Steve brings to RampRate over twenty years of experience in Internet research, software development, and technology operations. He possesses strong ability to distill and model business requirements and deliver technology solutions that meet the needs and constraints of the client. He is a product technology leader with a track record of developing innovative technology solutions, as evidenced by patented technologies in multiple areas of distributed systems and several market-leading products.
An accomplished research scientist and systems architect, Hotz has an extensive knowledge of Internet architecture, routing protocols and the DNS system. His first commercial project was to architect HopScotch, the flagship product and one of the earliest CDNs, for Genuity Networks (acquired by BBN). He went on to serve as Chief Scientist for CenterGate Research where he led development of several product technologies, including UltraDNS. He left Centergate to become the founding CTO of UltraDNS (acquired by Neustar NYSE: NSR). Steve moved on to take the CTO/VPeng role and help turn around IdeaLab’s New.net (acquired by Vendare Media); as VP/R&D at Vendare, he built a successful forward-looking technology team. Most recently, Steve has been active as both a founder of and consultant for companies in the Internet advertising space.
