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title: Me, Professionally date: 2016-07-26 modified: 2023-09-20 author: john melesky
category: about
I've been in the industry since before the dot-com boom of the late nineties (I almost said "late twentieth century" there, but that makes me sound much older than I'd like to be).
I have a long history of working with large, often unstructured data, starting with the set of member pages at Tripod.com. I have a background in machine learning, mostly around document classification, though I'm a quite behind the current state of the art at this point. I've written a number of reporting systems, and am comfortable enough with databases that I spent a few years working as a DBA.
Nowadays, although I have capable technical chops, my strengths lie in management. In particular, I enjoy growing groups of individuals into high-performance teams. I pay attention to research, and found the recent paper on Developer Thriving very insightful.
At the moment, I'm looking for work! If you have need of a manager of software developers or infrastructure engineers, then I might fit the bill. Here's a recent resume (PDF format), which includes contact information.