Eric R. Melz

Title: Senior Director of Engineering
Company: SearchStax Inc.
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States

Eric R. Melz, Senior Director of Engineering at SearchStax Inc., has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Engineers for dedication, achievements, and leadership in engineering leadership.

With over 34 years of experience in the technology industry to his credit, Mr. Melz initially embarked upon his professional path at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science and engineering in 1990. He subsequently graduated from the University of Southern California with a Master of Science in computer science. His technical expertise has been enhanced by numerous certifications from the likes of Coursera, LinkedIn, Udacity, and Stanford University since 2011. Mr. Melz would later share his wealth of expertise through creative works published in the Proceedings of the Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference in 2003, the Sixteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference in 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science in 2004, and Advances in Question Answering in 2004.

Mr. Melz began his career as the owner of Metrotech Consulting from 2001 to 2005, after which time he worked as a senior software engineer with Siderean from 2005 to 2007, Google from 2007 to 2009, Alelo Inc. from 2009 to 2011, Live Nation Entertainment from 2011 to 2012, and the LinkedIn Corporation from 2012 to 2015. Later serving as a software engineering manager for the LinkedIn Corporation between 2015 and 2017, he was later active as the head of engineering for Searchstax from 2017 to 2018, the senior engineering manager for Factual Inc. from 2018 to 2020 and a senior data engineering manager for DISQO from 2020 to 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, he found success with GumGum Inc. as a senior engineering manager and the director of engineering. Since 2023, Mr. Melz has excelled as the senior director for engineering with SearchStax Inc.

Inspired by his father, a physicist, Mr. Melz’s passion for science and technology has driven his lifelong career in engineering. As a testament to his exceptional achievements, he has obtained multiple patents in relation to social networks and won Hackathons during his tenures with Factual in 2020 and GumGum in 2022, respectively. In the coming years, Mr. Melz aims to further elevate his leadership capabilities, aspiring to transition into an administrative role at SearchStax while simultaneously embracing new challenges and expanding his impact in the technology sector.

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