Ariel Melendez

Ariel Melendez is the current Chief Technical Officer at ArDrive. Ariel has over fifteen years of experience in software engineering and has been with ArDrive since August 2016. Prior to their current position, Ms. Melendez served as a Principal Engineer at Schoology and as a Manager of Engineering at MuseAmi, Inc. Ariel began their career as a Senior Software Engineer at ALK Technologies, Inc. in 2006.

Ms. Melendez is responsible for guiding and supervising the operations of ArDrive's software engineering department. Ariel works to ensure that the company's long-term product, technology, and enterprise goals are achievable, while rapidly delivering and iterating on near-term solutions. In addition to their managerial duties, Ms. Melendez also serves as a Scrum Master, promoting understanding of the Scrum framework and ensuring accountability among Scrum actors.

Under Ms. Melendez's leadership, ArDrive has released two successful mobile products and has advanced their core technologies. Ariel is widely respected within the software engineering community and their work has helped to shape the direction of ArDrive's products and services.

Ariel Melendez is a student at Princeton University studying operations research and financial engineering. Ariel has also completed Coursera courses in programming mobile applications for Android handheld systems, pattern-oriented software architectures, and programming cloud services, all of which they have received verified certificates for. Ariel is also a certified machine learning specialist.

They are on a team with Agustin Rodriguez - Quality Assurance Lead, Anthony Danielle - Community Manager. Lucas Porter-Bakker - Product Designer, David Whittington - Infrastructure Architect, and Derek Sonnenberg - Desktop Developer report to Ariel Melendez. Ariel Melendez reports to Phil Mataras, Founder.