Re: Please come and work with me

Dear Jeremy,
Have you already found your ideal candidate? Syapse sounds very interesting
to me. I have 4+ years of Bioinformatics experience and, nowadays, my main
research interests are on semantic relatedness and similarity, which I
consider to be a great fit for your semantic server engineer opening.
However, I have to disclose my bias towards semantic models
learned/augmented from textual information, with statistical machine
learning being a component of almost everything I do. Think approximate
SPARQL queries, probabilistic relations and such.

I am currently on a J1, so I'd probably need visa sponsorship.

Regardless of the job opening, I live in San Jose, so not far from Palo
Alto. I'd love to grab a coffee one of these days to hear more about your
ongoing work.

A bit more about me:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablomendes/
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yMhC7tAAAAAJ&hl=en

Cheers,
Pablo

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Jeremy J Carroll <jjc@syapse.com> wrote:

> At Syapse, in Palo Alto in Silicon Valley, we are building an informatics
> platform for the next generation of genomics-based, personalized medicine.
> The heart of the knowledge storage is an RDF triple store, accessed via a
> SPARQL 1.1 endpoint.
>
> One thing I personally value about this work is seeing technology that I
> have worked on for over a decade in a more theoretical way, actually being
> used at scale in a useful and valuable application. For example, the
> approach to access control that we suggested 10 years ago in [1] is being
> used in the Syapse software.
>
> We have a strong list of customers, for example, hospitals managing
> genetic test reports through our system.
> We have recently raised our B round financing and we are growing! We are
> looking for one or more engineers to join our server engineering team and
> work with the Semantic Web technology stack, particularly SPARQL 1.1. This
> is an enterprise product development position, so experience building and
> delivering large-scale applications will be key.
>
> We have a preference for candidates with the right to work in the US, but
> will consider strong candidates who need visa support.
> Please note that this is an on-site position in Palo Alto.
>
> The detailed job advert is here:
> http://www.syapse.com/about/careers/#semantic-server-engineer
>
> Feel free to contact me directly for more information.
>
> Jeremy J Carroll
> Principal Architect
> Syapse, Inc.
>
> [1] Carroll, Bizer, Hayes and Stickler, Named Graphs Provenance and Trust
>
> http://wifo5-03.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/bizer/SWTSGuide/carroll-ISWC2004.pdf
>
>


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Pablo N. Mendes
http://pablomendes.com