I’m Raymond Riter. I live in Medina, Ohio — and I’ve been taking things apart since I could hold a screwdriver.

I’ve always had a passion for creating and tinkering. When I was younger, I loved playing with — and eventually repairing and modding — my Xbox. I wrote my first substantial program just after high school: a replica of the Windows calculator in C# and WPF, finished within a few weeks of starting college. It worked. I also smuggled in an Easter egg that insults you for dividing by zero. That sense of “wait, I can just make this” never went away.

At Cleveland State I studied computer science and led a senior design team building a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency we called Viking Coin. In 2021 I left school to take a full-time development job and moved my family to Medina. Since then, I’ve raised kids, learned to cook everything I’d previously been ordering, and used my off-hours to ship the things you see in /projects.

Stylistically: I prefer local models to API calls, vertical integration over duct-taping six SaaS tools together, and shipping a rough thing today over polishing a perfect thing forever. Most of what I build runs on my own hardware first — an RTX 3090, a Tailscale mesh between my desktop and a MacBook, and a Traeger pellet grill that doesn’t technically run code but has produced some excellent beef jerky.

I’m a Christian; helpmetopray.org and the sermon RAG I built for Grace Bible Church are outgrowths of that. My son Jace has a tiny outreach CRM I built him because he wanted free swag from companies. My wife indirectly steers half my project list. That’s the honest shape of things.