Joseph Turian is a seasoned technology leader and founder with nearly two decades of experience building data-centric software and advisory services. As Founder and President of MetaOptimize since 2008, he designs and implements data monetization strategies that blend large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and practical engineering. He previously led ML tooling at Workday as Principal Engineer and founded UPSHOT Data, which was acquired by Workday, underscoring a proven track record of turning data into value. A deep learning and NLP specialist, he did a postdoctoral fellowship at Université de Montréal under Yoshua Bengio and is an ACL 10 Year Test of Time Award lead author. Based in San Francisco, he is an active open-source contributor with backend/DevOps contributions (including ArchiveBox) and a track record of shipping reliable systems at scale.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at New York University
AB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Harvard University
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on updating dependencies, adding utilities for media extraction, and improving the error logging within the ArchiveBox project. They also addressed several issues related to the `yt-dlp` integration, including updating flags and configurations. Furthermore, the user addressed code quality issues and fixed bugs by adding missing migrations.
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