Toni Melisma
Field CIO Lead For Strategic Financial Services Customers
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolToni Melisma is a product-focused technology executive with 26 years of experience who currently leads Field CIO engagement for strategic financial services customers at Salesforce from San Francisco. He partners with C-level leaders to set business and technology vision, drive zero-to-one innovation, and scale transformation programs across the largest US and international financial institutions. His background spans strategy, digital transformation and technology consulting from KPMG to Salesforce, blending finance (MSc) and AI/cognitive science training with product management education from Stanford. Toni combines executive-level stakeholder management with hands-on engineering instincts—evidenced by code and CI/CD contributions to open-source Go projects like govips. He has board-level experience in media/OTT operations and a track record of aligning innovation labs, agile delivery and culture change to measurable customer outcomes. Known for translating complex technical possibilities into clear business value, he excels at turning strategic vision into actionable roadmaps and repeatable results.
6 years of coding experience
Professional Certificate, Product Management, Professional Certificate, Product Management at Stanford University School of EngineeringMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Finance, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Finance at Aalto UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science and AI, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science and AI at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (10)
go10
image-processing10
cicd10
libvips10
png9
jpeg9
webp9
docker8
testing8
dockers8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
davidbyttow/govips
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
A lightning fast image processing and resizing library for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 releases, 46 reviews, 154 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Toni primarily contributed to the back-end development of the `govips` library. Their commits include fixing dependencies and URLs in the `go.mod` file. They also refactored and updated the code, removing parameters from the sharpen function. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the CI/CD pipeline by resetting the Travis configuration and updating the Go module.
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tonimelisma/hackernews
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
React/Bootstrap frontend and NodeJS/MongoDB backend for Hacker News (responsive, web or mobile). See it live at https://tonidemo.herokuapp.com
Contributions:51 PRs, 102 pushes, 47 branches in 5 years 3 months
bootstrap-frontendherokureactnodejs-mongodbreact-bootstrap
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