What Happened?
New Hope, PA-based MeetMe Promoted Jonah Harris as Chief Technology Office
About the Company
MeetMe® is the leading social network for meeting new people in the US and the public market leader for social discovery (NASDAQ: MEET). MeetMe makes meeting new people fun through social games and apps, monetized by both advertising and virtual currency. With approximately 75 percent of traffic coming from mobile, MeetMe is fast becoming the social gathering place for the mobile generation. The company operates MeetMe.com and MeetMe apps on iPhone, iPad, and Android in multiple languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Turkish and Korean.
About the Person
Jonah Harris most recently served as the Vice President of Architecture at MeetMe and has been with the company since 2008. Harris brings deep experience will all aspects of MeetMe’s architecture, as well as particular strengths in leveraging data to improve the user experience. Jonah is a hardcore developer, thinker, open source advocate, and self-taught database guru. His programming experience began as a third grader with nothing more than a Commodore VIC-20 and BASIC. Now, Jonah is a successful consultant with professional experience in over 10 programming languages. Related to academia, Jonah has worked on several papers concerning database and sorting theory. Likewise, Jonah is an avid believer in the power of open source computing and has been a longtime Linux and PostgreSQL user. Where databases are concerned, Jonah has worked with every major commercial and open source system to date; his range of knowledge includes everything from query language specifics to the internal details, file formats, and network protocols of Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SAP DB, Firebird, Ingres, and InnoDB.
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