Jonathan Salama

CTO at Transfix

About

Jonathan Salama is the CTO and co-founder of Transfix, a leading online freight marketplace that brings immediate capacity and guaranteed reliability for those seeking smarter, lower cost ways to move freight.

Prior to launching Transfix, Jonathan was an early addition to the core engineering team at Gilt Groupe, where he transitioned to a dynamic leadership role after 4 years. There, he was responsible for managing a team of skilled engineers tasked with developing and enhancing the technology and software infrastructure that power the platform. Jonathan also held the position of lead software engineer at Cherry, an on-demand car wash startup that was later acquired by Lyft.

Salama earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Miami. He currently resides in Jersey City, NJ with his wife, daughter and his mini golden doodle.

Jonathan Salama has presented the following presentations

    Jonathan Salama Karina Ruzinov Indexes: right place, right time. at Postgres Conference
    How we got our queries down from 16sec to 20ms

    presented by Jonathan Salama and Karina Ruzinov

    Have you ever tried to debug an API endpoint and realized it wasn’t your nested for loops taking a long time, but in reality it was a seemingly innocuous query. We did too. This led us down a path of learning the ins and outs of index storage, functionality, and benefits.

    An index can both be very powerful and very dangerous, at the same time, unless you understand the right place and time ...

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    Wed 20 2019 Use Cases