About

I am currently the CEO of JanRain, Inc., the creator of fine software products utilizing the OpenID specs.

My Professional Life Story in Three Paragraphs

A native of the Mid-West I moved out to Oregon in 1980 with my family and never looked back. Graduated from Beaverton High School in 1992 and Oregon State University in 1997 (once a Beaver, always a Beaver I suppose). I worked for a couple of dot com’s (amazon.com, rulespace.com, pdaverticals.com) and returned to OSU to start the Open Source Lab.

The Open Source Lab was a culmination of OSU’s use, development and hosting of open source projects. While at the OSL we engaged in software development projects like Maintain, Ockham, Kuali and many others. We also built a massive hosting infrastructure to support the Mozilla Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation, the Linux Kernel and many, many others. I really enjoyed building the OSL and working with everyone there; it was an amazing team that did something that everyone said we couldn’t do.

In the Spring of 2006 I met Larry Drebes the founder of JanRain. Fruitful discussions led me down the path of deciding to make the jump and “get off the sidelines” to become a part of the JanRain team.

Memberships

• Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE).
• Board of Technical Advisors, LinuxFund.org
• Technical Board of Advisors, Open Technology Business Center

Professional Bio

I’m sometimes asked to provide a professional bio for conference websites or publications. I’m doing that here so I can direct people to it in the future:

“Scott Kveton is the CEO of JanRain, Inc., the maker of fine identity software products. He is passionately focused on building successful teams and bridging communities. Scott’s experience with companies like Amazon.com and Rulespace have given him a pragmatic understanding of the fast-paced IT industry. Scott returned to his alma mater Oregon State University in 2001 to head up their open source efforts in the form of the Open Source Lab. Scott is an active member of the Portland Open Source Software Entrepeneurs organization and was named one of InformationWeek’s ‘Top 10 People to Watch in 2006′.”