Christopher Aamold

Christopher Aamold

Co-Founder and CEO

Christopher oversees the business efforts at RSpond, bringing years of experience in technical operations. He began his career in the telecommunications industry, working with both billion-dollar corporations and smaller startups over 16 years. As a technical consultant, he led one of the largest data transformation projects in the State of Texas. Christopher also co-founded Media Driver, a startup known for supporting major Apache ActiveMQ implementations, and successfully shifted its focus from consulting services to product sales, laying the foundation for HYTE Technologies.

Matt Pavlovich

Matt Pavlovich

Co-Founder and CTO

Matt leads the HYTE Product Development Team and brings over 20 years of experience in the Open Source Software communities. Serves as an Apache ActiveMQ PMC Member. Matt has led the development on major initiatives, including leading the JMS 3.1/2.0, Jakarta migration, and driving efforts in observability and modernization. As a hands-on technical leader, he has managed the largest and most recognized ActiveMQ implementations worldwide.

Jonathan Locke

Jonathan Locke

Co-Founder & Principal Software Engineer

Jon worked on Windows at Microsoft and Java at Sun Microsystems, and originated two top-level Apache projects. He co-founded several startup companies and is a technical author. He has deep technical expertise in software reusability, object-oriented programming and distributed systems, and is passionate about open source and creating great developer experiences. Jon writes music and plays bass and guitar and sings.

Advisors & Contributors

RSpond is an open source project. As our community grows, contributors and advisors will be listed here.