Payam Meyer is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building end-to-end systems, from scalable backends to user-facing GWT applications. He has deep hands-on expertise in cloud-hosted architectures (AWS), databases including MongoDB and MySQL, search platforms like Solr, and Java-based ingest and crawling pipelines. Payam’s career spans product-focused roles at ProQuest and TEMIS—where he helped deliver an award-winning information navigation product—and leadership of his own company, Ascendant Software Technology. He combines strong analytical rigor with client-facing communication and project management, repeatedly owning complex delivery windows and cross-functional deployments. A perpetual learner, he adopts new technologies pragmatically to improve day-to-day operations and system reliability. Based in Maryland, he pairs academic grounding from Johns Hopkins with practical experience turning archival and content-heavy workflows into production-grade services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems at University of Indianapolis
Contributions:53 PRs, 65 pushes, 47 branches in 7 years 4 months
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