John Swiderski (born May 15, 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) founded Mean Hamster Software in 1985 at the age of 10.
John took a hiatus from programming in 1993 when Commodore went bankrupt and opened a retail computer store in Deer Park, Washington.
In 1999, Swiderski began working on new Atari 5200 game cartridges for the newly popular retro-gaming surge.
In 2004, Swiderski began work on Myst for Pocket PC as lead programmer.
John Swiderski was a board member of the WMMFA, the Washington Materials Management and Funding authority.