Justin Demaris
SVP, Consumer Engineering, BI & SEO at Merriam-Webster Inc.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Demaris is an accomplished engineering leader with nine years of formal experience and a long track record building internet-scale systems for Fortune 10 companies and high-traffic consumer products. As SVP of Consumer Engineering, BI & SEO at Merriam-Webster he blends systems architecture, data engineering, and machine learning to deliver resilient services handling hundreds of millions of requests per day. He has repeatedly cut costs and improved performance—examples include 10x page-load improvements at Buddy Media/Salesforce and 50% hosting cost reductions via cloud migrations. A hands-on founder and CTO, he’s designed real-time ingestion pipelines (Kafka, Storm, Hadoop), led ML teams into production, and enforces security and compliance across large fleets. Based in New York, Justin combines deep operational know-how with a knack for translating complex technical trade-offs into business outcomes, and volunteers locally managing community CSA infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science & Engineering, BSE Computer Science & Engineering at University of Connecticut
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
database9
cassandra9
devops8
terraform7
ansible7
salt7
json6
kubernetes6
oop6
design-patterns6
heredoc6
zend-framework6
php6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Jaysues/weather-project
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Project for Justin
Contributions:4 PRs, 36 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
reacttypescriptjustin
Jaysues/eks-opa-helm-baseline
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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