posted by admin on March 4, 2009 01:11 AM

American Idol may have added a fourth judge this season, but I bet they don’t know about the fifth judge who resides at TrackVia. What better time to expose the judge then when he is out of the office at the VCIR Winter conference. Who is the TrackVia American Idol judge?

The latest American Idol judge is TrackVia’s co-founder and CTO, Matt McAdams. When he is not leading the development team on the charge to build cool new features and enhancements, he is maintaining his American Idol database. He is so inspired by the show that he occasionally sings to his developers (I will publish a MP3 of that in a future post. In the meantime, check out his vocals on the 12 Days of Data Video).

He gave me access to his online database, so I took the liberty to post his commentary on Round Three Contestants. You can expect him to provide periodic American Idol updates throughout the season now that his cover has been exposed. Stay tuned. Selfishly, we just hope that Fox does not decide to hire him away for Season 9. I know it would be a tough decision for a rock star trapped in the body of a data geek.