Summary
Skye Bender-demoll is a senior software engineer with 16+ years of experience delivering scalable data-intensive platforms across media, music, and research domains. He specializes in data engineering, server-side development, and ML/AI data infrastructure, having led multi-disciplinary teams at Gracenote, UnitedMasters, and Meedan to transform prototypes into production-grade pipelines and services. At Meedan, he built the Timpani ML infrastructure to support social listening workflows and scalable misinformation response, and helped transition research prototypes into production code. He also drove regional data expansion, fraud reduction, and AWS RDS modernization at UnitedMasters, and has a track record in designing testing frameworks, CI/CD tooling, and maintainable architectures. His career spans leadership roles in fast-paced startups and established tech companies, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration, mentorship, and ethical engineering. Based in Oakland, California, he brings a hands-on, data-driven approach to building reliable, scalable systems that balance business needs with user trust.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer