Tom Melendez

Sr. Engineering Director, Data Products @ MethaneSAT

About

I have a particular interest and expertise in Climate, Science and mathematically-complex data and workloads that drive real impact. I build organizations the best engineers want to work in - Mission Driven, tackling Hard technical problems with a deep commitment to DEI and Work/Life balance. Although I appreciate requests to connect, I only connect with people that I have _actually_ interacted with (i.e. spoken to or emailed with). I do this because I reach out to my network often and this help keeps the integrity of my network high. If you'd like to connect and we don't have a previous relationship, please request a time for us to have a 15 minute conversation about a topic relevant to both of us and we'll go from there.

Country

United States

City

Seattle

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Communication, Strategic Leadership, Research and Development (R&D), Engineering Leadership, Negotiation, Technical Design, Budgeting, Team Management, Team Building, Software Systems, Team Leadership, System Development, Computer Science, Technical Vision, Leadership, Technical Leadership, Go, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Scalability

Experience

Sr. Engineering Director, Data Products

MethaneSAT

2019-10 - Present · 7 yrs

I'm hiring!! Want to work for an organization that 1. Really makes an impact on the world, tackling climate change? 2. Supports SV software engineering rigor and best practices, without having to relocate? 3. is building a one-of-a-kind, greenfield project, in a small team that celebrates diversity? Hiring Platform, Backend and Frontend software engineers and Product Managers. Ping me.

Senior Software Engineer

Google

2014-8 - 2019-10 · 5 yrs 3 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Geo: Satellite Imagery Analytics; Open Source: Ansible, LibCloud, Saltstack; Cloud: Commerce, 3rd Party integrations, GCP/AWS co-deployment. TLM, IC and completed Product Manager rotation. Over 250 technical interviews.

Technical Lead/Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Terra Bella (a Planet company)

2011-11 - 2014-8 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Leading a team of the best and brightest in Silicon Valley, I architect, design and deliver a Hadoop-based platform and framework for processing binary and geospatial data.

Senior Platform Software Engineer

Terra Bella (a Planet company)

2011-1 - 2011-11 · 11 mos

Big Space Data with Hadoop/Lucene/NoSQL

Tech Lead, Grid Programming, Media

Yahoo

2010-6 - 2011-1 · 8 mos

Hadoop in all its Grooviness.

Cloud Computing Engineer, Media

Yahoo

2009-8 - 2010-6 · 11 mos

Technical Yahoo! - News

Yahoo

2007 - 2009-8 · 2 yrs

Adjunct Instructor, Computer Systems Department

Farmingdale State College

2002-9 - 2007-6 · 4 yrs 10 mos

Farmingdale, New York, United States

Courses taught: * BCS 215: Intro to UNIX I * BCS 185: Programming in Visual Basic * BCS 350: Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL * BCS 301: Systems Analysis and Design