Blekko Company

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Blekko, trademarked as blekko, was a company that provided a web search engine with the stated goal of providing better search results than those offered by Google Search, with results gathered from a set of 3 billion trusted webpages and excluding such sites as content farms. Date launched: November 1, 2010 Available in: English Language Type of site: Web search engine Owner: IBM (International Business Machines)

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Blekko Employees

Employee
Years
Job
Industry
Carmine Napolitano Carmine Napolitano San Francisco Bay Area Details
Carmine Napolitano's Blekko Experience July 2013 - May 2015
Job Chief Financial Officer at Paradata
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Paradata  June 2015 - Present
Ask the Seal LLC   January 2009 - Present
Blekko   July 2013 - May 2015
Algorithms.io   June 2013 - December 2013
Equalis LLC   July 2009 - June 2013
LeCroy Corporation  October 2004 - January 2009
Computer Access Technology Corp   November 2003 - October 2004
Computer Access Technology Corporation  September 2002 - November 2003
Centric Software, Inc.   August 1995 - August 2002
Wavefront Technologies  1993 - 1995

Skills
Start-ups, Enterprise Software, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management, Go-to-market Strategy, Product Management, Product Launch, Executive Management, Strategy, Product Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Business Strategy, Financial Expertise, Team Building, Cross-functional Team..., Competitive Analysis, International Business, Channel Optimization, Product Development, SaaS, IPO, Corporate Development, Business Alliances

Education
New York University   1991 — 1993
MBA, Finance, With Distinction

University of California, Santa Barbara   1986 — 1990
BS, Mechanical Engineering

Los Alamitos High School

Rich Skrenta Rich Skrenta San Francisco Bay Area Details
Rich Skrenta's Blekko Experience 2007 - 2015
Job IBM Watson
Industry Computer Software
Experience
IBM  2015 - Present
Blekko   2007 - 2015
Topix  2002 - 2007
Netscape/America Online   1998 - 2002
NewHoo   June 1998 - October 1998
Sun Microsystems  1995 - 1998
Unix System Labs / Novell   1991 - 1995
Commodore-Amiga   1989 - 1991

Skills
Distributed Systems, Scalability, Perl, Start-ups, Unix, Product Management, Cloud Computing, Web Development, Strategic Partnerships, Mobile Applications, Software Engineering, Search, Linux, Open Source, Python, JavaScript, Agile Methodologies, Hadoop

Education
Northwestern University   1985 — 1989
BA, Computer Science

Tom Annau Tom Annau San Francisco Bay Area Details
Tom Annau's Blekko Experience September 2009 - February 2013
Job Senior Director at Microsoft Research
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Microsoft Research NExT   September 2015 - Present
Jaunt VR  April 2013 - April 2015
Blekko   September 2009 - February 2013
Redpoint Ventures  October 2008 - September 2009
Google  January 2005 - September 2008
Silicon Optix  2003 - 2004
Plumtree Software  2001 - 2002
Ripfire   1999 - 2001
Arithmos   1997 - 1999

Skills
Scalability, Distributed Systems, Big Data, Algorithms, Start-ups, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Software Engineering, Information Retrieval, System Architecture, C++, Python, Perl, Computer Vision, NoSQL, Statistical Modeling, NumPy, Signal Processing, Search Engines, Virtual Reality, Hadoop, Java, Software Development, Team Management

Education
California Institute of Technology   1991 — 1996
PhD, Computational Neuroscience

Stanford University   1987 — 1991
BS, Electrical Engineering and Biology (with distinction)

Hui Yu Hui Yu San Francisco Bay Area Details
Hui Yu's Blekko Experience November 2009 - October 2011
Job Senior Software Engineer at Tango
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Tango  August 2014 - Present
Brocade Communications Systems  December 2012 - July 2014
Cisco Systems  October 2011 - November 2012
Blekko   November 2009 - October 2011
Ziosoft Inc   February 2009 - November 2009
Yahoo!  June 2008 - February 2009
Aristos Logic  March 2003 - June 2008
Cisco Systems  October 2000 - March 2003

Skills
Search engine, data..., Network programming, Storage Programming, Web Programming, Low Latency, Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Multithreading, Cloud Computing, Information Retrieval, High Performance..., Perl, C++, C, Linux, ODBC, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MsSQL, MySQL, Vmware, vCenter, vSphere, Virtualization, GCC, GDB, STL, BOOST, HTML, Javascript, Tomcat, J2EE, JDBC, XML, JSON, SCSI, Fibre Channel, SATA, SAS, OOP, Cisco UCS

Education
Mianyang High School

Tsinghua University
BSEE, Electronics Engineering

David Gelber David Gelber San Francisco Bay Area Details
David Gelber's Blekko Experience January 2012 - June 2013
Job Search Editor at Yahoo
Industry Internet
Experience
Yahoo  November 2013 - Present
Blekko   January 2012 - June 2013
Search Strategy Solutions   July 2011 - November 2011
Onyx Pharmaceuticals  February 2011 - June 2011
Yahoo Inc  July 2009 - December 2010
Hathaway Public Relations   June 2008 - January 2009
Virgin Megastore  February 2008 - May 2008
KDC Promotions   October 2003 - November 2007

Skills
Content Management, SEO, Editing, Online Advertising, Integrated Marketing, Quality Assurance, User Experience, Marketing, Editorial, Content Strategy, Web Content Management

Education
San Francisco State University   2004 — 2008
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Communication Studies; Marketing

Julia Greissl Julia Greissl Greater Seattle Area Details
Julia Greissl's Blekko Experience May 2011 - June 2013
Job Principal Data Scientist at @WalmartLabs
Industry Information Technology and Services
Experience
@WalmartLabs  September 2013 - Present
Blekko   May 2011 - June 2013
Point Inside  2009 - 2011
Steward Observatory - University of Arizona  September 2003 - December 2010
Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany   May 2000 - September 2000

Skills
IDL, Machine Learning, Astronomy, Spectroscopy, Perl, MySQL, Linux, Unix, Python, Scientific Computing, Analytics, Scalability, NoSQL, R, C++, REST, Software Engineering

Education
University of Arizona   2003 — 2010
Ph. D., Astronomy

Caltech   1999 — 2003
B.S., Astronomy

Saad Khan Saad Khan San Francisco Bay Area Details
Saad Khan's Blekko Experience February 2009 - 2014
Job Cofounder, Partner at Uprising
Industry Venture Capital & Private Equity
Experience
Uprising   2013 - Present
Jobvite  December 2007 - Present
Lending Club  September 2006 - Present
FilmAngels   November 2004 - Present
Blekko   February 2009 - 2014
Luminate   January 2009 - 2014
CMEA Ventures   February 2007 - 2014
Evolution Robotics  June 2008 - 2013
Garage Technology Ventures  January 2002 - January 2007

Skills
Mobile Payments, Start-ups, Strategic Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Mobile Devices, Business Development, Corporate Development, Angel Investing, Mergers, Strategic Partnerships, Strategy, E-commerce, Business Strategy, Private Equity, Investments, New Business Development, SaaS, Mobile Applications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Planning, Product Management, Analytics, Emerging Markets, Restructuring, Marketing Strategy, Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Finance, Executive Management, Market Research, Financial Modeling, Due Diligence, User Experience, Investment Banking, Product Development, Go-to-market Strategy, Competitive Analysis, Finance, Valuation

Education
Stanford University   1996 — 2001

karachi american school   1992 — 1996

Eihab Shadeed Eihab Shadeed San Francisco Bay Area Details
Eihab Shadeed's Blekko Experience December 2012 - June 2013
Job FrontEnd Lead at PayPal
Industry Information Technology and Services
Experience
PayPal  June 2014 - Present
Apple  July 2013 - May 2014
Blekko   December 2012 - June 2013
SpringAhead  April 2012 - November 2012
LEVEL, a Rosetta Company  January 2012 - April 2012
Hewlett-Packard  July 2010 - February 2012
Palm  October 2009 - July 2010
TechStone Soft   May 2008 - October 2009
Google  November 2007 - May 2008
Larry Hopkins Honda  September 2006 - November 2007

Skills
JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, YUI, JSON, jQuery, JSP, HTML5, CSS, Java, MySQL, JBoss, Eclipse, NetBeans, Servlets, JDBC, SQLite, REST, SOAP, XML, WSDL, Blackberry, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, RIM, J2ME, J2EE, WebKit, Android, MVC, Web Design, Web 2.0, Web Development, Mobile Applications, Web Services, Advanced CSS, HTML + CSS, Oracle SQL, Objective-C, Linux, Android Development, iOS development, Mobile Device..., Enterprise Software, jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, HTML, Wireless Mobility, HTML 5

Education
Jami'at Philadelphia Al-Khassa   1999 — 2003
Bachelor in Science, Science & Information Technology

Philadelphia University   1999 — 2003
3.0, Computer Science and IT

Joe Meissler Joe Meissler San Francisco Bay Area Details
Joe Meissler's Blekko Experience February 2014 - March 2015
Job IBM Watson
Industry Internet
Experience
IBM  March 2015 - Present
Blekko   February 2014 - March 2015
FirstJob, Inc.   November 2013 - January 2014
Alacrity Patient Services   July 2012 - July 2013
NCIRE  September 2010 - October 2012
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine  July 2007 - May 2010
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine  September 2009 - December 2009

Skills
JavaScript, Django, MySQL, Python, Web Development, Backbone.js, CSS, jQuery, HTML, HTML 5, CSS3, REST, Google Maps, Facebook API, Git, Project Management, Leadership, Research, Market Research, Analysis, EHR, EMR, Healthcare Information..., HIPAA, Health 2.0, Telemedicine, Business Development

Education
University of Pennsylvania   2006 — 2010
B.A., Biological Basis of Behavior

Richard Shafer Richard Shafer San Francisco Bay Area Details
Richard Shafer's Blekko Experience March 2012 - April 2014
Job Software Products and Analysis
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Metavine   May 2014 - Present
Blekko   March 2012 - April 2014
Lightning Bolt Solutions  October 2008 - October 2010
Lightning Bolt Solutions  August 2006 - September 2008

Skills
Problem Solving, Mathematics, Exploratory Testing, Requirements Analysis, Design Specifications, Product Management, SQL, Troubleshooting, Agile, SaaS, SQL Server, Counter-examples, Knowledge Base, Customer Facing, Technical Documentation, Agile Methodologies, Testing, Perl

Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, 3.95

Cheralyn Watson Cheralyn Watson San Francisco Bay Area Details
Cheralyn Watson's Blekko Experience March 2010 - June 2013
Job Experienced Product and Project Manager
Industry Internet
Experience
HP  March 2015 - Present
Blekko   March 2010 - June 2013
MyLife.com  March 2009 - March 2010
Reunion.com  September 2008 - February 2009
Wink  October 2006 - September 2008
Yahoo!  December 2004 - June 2006
Yahoo!  December 2003 - December 2004
Yahoo!  September 1999 - December 2003
Opera San José  July 1993 - September 1999

Skills
Product Management, E-commerce, Community Management, Social Networking, Content Management, Online Advertising, Social Media, Web 2.0, Web Development, Web Analytics, User Experience, Competitive Analysis, Google Analytics, Online Marketing, PPC, Management, Mobile Applications

Education
San Jose State University
Bachelor of Arts, Humanities

Eric Hartford Eric Hartford Portland, Oregon Area Details
Eric Hartford's Blekko Experience January 2012 - January 2013
Job Lead UI Developer at System of Systems Analytics, Inc. (SoSACorp)
Industry Computer Software
Experience
System of Systems Analytics, Inc. (SoSACorp)   April 2015 - Present
Disney Connected and Advanced Technologies  December 2014 - April 2015
Smartsheet  April 2014 - November 2014
SDL plc  2013 - 2014
Blekko   January 2012 - January 2013
Boeing  May 2011 - January 2012
Affirma Consulting  April 2011 - May 2011
Microsoft  October 2010 - April 2011
Microsoft  April 2010 - October 2010
Verdiem Corporation  August 2009 - March 2010

Skills
Perl, C++, C#, .NET, .NET Compact Framework, Web Services, HTTP, HTML, HTML/XML, XML, XML Schema, XSD, Python, XAML, Android, Java, JavaScript, HTML5, HTML + CSS, CSS, SQL, SharePoint, SQL Server, Mac OS X, DOS, Unix, Linux, Solaris, JSON, REST, UML, UML Tools, Continuous Integration, XSLT, Open Source, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, iPhone development, CoffeeScript, HTML 5, TFS, ASP.NET, Distributed Systems, Software Design, Software Development

Education
University of Washington   2002 — 2005
Master of Science, Computing and Software Systems

Pacific Lutheran University   2000 — 2002
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Chuck McManis Chuck McManis San Francisco Bay Area Details
Chuck McManis's Blekko Experience April 2013 - March 2015
Job IBMer at IBM
Industry Computer Software
Experience
IBM  April 2015 - Present
Blekko   April 2013 - March 2015
Blekko   May 2010 - April 2013
Parascale  December 2007 - June 2010
Google Inc  December 2006 - April 2010
Quinn Emanuel  February 2009 - July 2009
Network Appliance  August 2001 - December 2006
NetApp  2001 - 2006
Freegate Corporation   April 1996 - August 2001
Tut Systems  2000 - 2001

Skills
Systems Analysis, Architecture, Clustering, Distributed Systems, Perl, Storage, Linux, NAS, C, TCP/IP, Security, Unix, Python, Java, Data Center, Operating Systems, System Architecture, Server Architecture, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Technical Leadership, Communication, Business Analysis, Cluster, Solaris, E-commerce, Enterprise Software, High Performance..., SaaS, Embedded Systems, Software Design, Device Drivers, Software Engineering, Servers, Start-ups, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Networking, Open Source, Big Data, High Availability, Virtualization, Bash, Shell Scripting, DNS, Product Marketing, Storage Area Networks, Architectures, Scalability

Education
University of Southern California   1978 — 1983
BS, Electrical Engineering

David Hockaday David Hockaday San Francisco Bay Area Details
David Hockaday's Blekko Experience 2013 - 2013
Job Data Scientist at Stealth
Industry Venture Capital & Private Equity
Experience
Stealth  May 2015 - Present
Sano Intelligence  2014 - 2015
Independent Analysis   2012 - 2014
Blekko   2013 - 2013
Quid  2010 - 2011
Institute for Defense Analyses  2004 - 2010
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope   2003 - 2004

Skills
Statistical Modeling, Python, Modeling, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Physics, R, Statistics, Data Science, Big Data, Hadoop, Lucene, Solr, scikit, nltk, Natural Language..., Pattern Recognition, Data Visualization, Technical Writing, Technical Editing, Computer Vision, Mathematica, LaTeX, Mathematical Modeling, Start-ups, Matlab

Education
Caltech
BS, Physics

Robert Saliba Robert Saliba San Francisco Bay Area Details
Robert Saliba's Blekko Experience July 2008 - May 2013
Job
Industry Internet
Experience
Google  May 2013 - Present
Blekko   July 2008 - May 2013
Benfield, Inc.   November 2006 - June 2008
The Hartford Financial Services Group  September 2004 - August 2006
United States Peace Corps  June 2001 - June 2003

Education
University of Virginia   2003 — 2004
M.A., Economics

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)   1996 — 2000
B.S., Economics

Al Sary Al Sary San Francisco Bay Area Details
Al Sary's Blekko Experience July 2008 - March 2015
Job TBD at IBM Watson
Industry Computer Software
Experience
IBM Watson  April 2015 - Present
Blekko   July 2008 - March 2015
Social Concepts   July 2007 - July 2008
LiveOps  September 2005 - June 2007
Avaya Inc.  October 2002 - October 2004
Quintus Corps.   May 1989 - January 2001
Quintus Corporation  1989 - 2000
Bell Northern Research  October 1987 - February 1989

Skills
Cloud Computing, Perl, MySQL, Apache, C++, JavaScript, Web Applications, Java, PHP, Python

Education
University of Waterloo   1985 — 1987
M.Math, Logic Programming, Distributed Processing

The University of British Columbia   1980 — 1984
B.Sc, Computer Stuff, Logic Programming, Compilers

Susan Crayne Susan Crayne Greater New York City Area Details
Susan Crayne's Blekko Experience May 2010 - November 2010
Job Freelance Mobile and Web Developer
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Oryx Technologies   January 2012 - Present
Oryx Technologies   November 2010 - Present
Oryx Technologies   2010 - Present
BD Resources LLC   August 2015 - August 2015
NewCityHall   February 2011 - October 2011
Blekko   May 2010 - November 2010
gliider   May 2009 - May 2010
Modena Capital Magagement   July 2008 - May 2009
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center   September 1997 - July 2008

Skills
JavaScript, CSS, HTML, AJAX, jQuery, Eclipse, OOP, Linux, Web Applications, Web Development, HTML 5, MySQL, Mobile Product..., Appcelerator, Android SDK, User Experience, Mobile Applications, Apache, PHP

Education
City University of New York City College
BS, Mathematics

White Plains High School

Jacques Frechet Jacques Frechet San Francisco Bay Area Details
Jacques Frechet's Blekko Experience November 2009 - April 2014
Job at Google
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Google  April 2014 - Present
Blekko   November 2009 - April 2014
Shiny Devices LLC   April 2006 - December 2012
PageBites   2005 - 2006
Symantec  2003 - 2005
SafeWeb   2002 - 2003
iSpheres  1999 - 2002

Skills
Distributed Systems, Perl, Python, Scalability, C++, Linux, Cloud Computing, C, System Architecture, Java, Unix, JavaScript

Education
California Institute of Technology   1995 — 1999
BS, E&AS (CS)

Robin Mayes Robin Mayes San Francisco Bay Area Details
Robin Mayes's Blekko Experience January 2012 - June 2013
Job Software Engineer
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Google  May 2014 - Present
Blekko   January 2012 - June 2013
Microsoft  February 2009 - March 2010
Microsoft  May 2006 - January 2009

Skills
Search Engine Technology, Computational..., Machine Learning, Big Data, NoSQL, Distributed Systems, MapReduce, Perl, C++, C, Indexing, Large Scale Systems, Software Engineering, Software Design, Test Automation, DRM

Education
University of Washington   2000 — 2005
BS, Applied and Computational Math Sciences (ACMS), Statistics Option

Caltech

Harmony Chi Harmony Chi San Francisco Bay Area Details
Harmony Chi's Blekko Experience May 2014 - March 2015
Job Analytics at IBM Watson
Industry Internet
Experience
IBM Watson  March 2015 - Present
Blekko   May 2014 - March 2015
Radford, an Aon Hewitt Company  April 2010 - April 2014
J.P. Morgan   July 2007 - March 2010

Skills
Data Analysis, Python, SQL, Microsoft Excel, Equities, Executive Pay, Performance Management, Valuation, Management Consulting, Incentive Programs

Education
University of California, Berkeley   2003 — 2007
BA, Applied Mathematics in Actuarial Science

Jerre Bowen Jerre Bowen San Francisco Bay Area Details
Jerre Bowen's Blekko Experience October 2010 - May 2012
Job Technical Leader at Cisco Systems
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Cisco Systems  May 2012 - Present
Blekko   October 2010 - May 2012
Symantec  March 2001 - May 2011
Geocast Systems   February 2000 - February 2001
Silicon Graphics  March 1989 - November 1999

Skills
Unix, Linux, Perl, Shell Scripting, Solaris, Scalability, C, Java, Distributed Systems

Education
The University of Kansas
BGS, Computer Sciences, Math

The University of Texas at Austin
MS CS, Computer Sciences

Thomas Zumsteg Thomas Zumsteg San Francisco Bay Area Details
Thomas Zumsteg's Blekko Experience February 2013 - June 2013
Job Systems Administrator at Cisco
Industry Aviation & Aerospace
Experience
Blekko   February 2013 - June 2013
De Anza College  August 2008 - December 2008

Skills
Python, Matlab, Solidworks, C, C++, Microsoft Office, Perl, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Programming, Aerospace, CFD, Electronics, Linux

Education
San Jose State University   2010 — 2012
Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

De Anza College
Associate's Degree

Malous Kossarian Malous Kossarian San Francisco Bay Area Details
Malous Kossarian's Blekko Experience July 2014 - March 2015
Job Product at IBM Watson
Industry Computer Software
Experience
IBM Watson  March 2015 - Present
Not Robot LLC   April 2014 - Present
Blekko   July 2014 - March 2015
Wellspring Worldwide  September 2013 - July 2014
Northwestern University  September 2012 - October 2013
Northwestern University  August 2012 - October 2013
Harvey Mudd College  August 2009 - December 2011

Skills
Matlab, Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Python, Organization, Project Management, Statistics, LaTeX, NMR, Spectroscopy, Mathematica, Scanning Electron..., Algorithms

Education
Northwestern University   2012 — 2013
Master of Science (M.S.), Chemistry

Harvey Mudd College   2008 — 2012
Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry