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id="post-49556" class="post-49556 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-meettheteam category-mendelife tag-meet-the-team"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2019/05/28/meet-the-team-karin-hilton-senior-director-technology/" rel="bookmark">Meet the Team: Karin Hilton, Senior Director Technology</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2019/05/28/meet-the-team-karin-hilton-senior-director-technology/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2019-05-28T17:05:35+01:00">May 28, 2019</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.mendeley.com/author/rbrennes/">Rachel Brennesholtz</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><strong><img 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srcset="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/karin-hilton.jpg?w=300 300w, https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/karin-hilton.jpg?w=600 600w, https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/karin-hilton.jpg?w=200 200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></strong></p> <p><strong>Name</strong>: Karin Hilton</p> <p><strong>Congratulations to Karin for being named one of 50 most influential women in tech in The Netherlands! </strong></p> <p><strong>Job title</strong>: Senior Director Technology</p> <p>Karin is responsible for the technology team who are building Mendeley Data, which is Elsevier’s platform to support research data management. Karin and her team are using technology to transform the way that researchers collaborate and work together to spark discovery and support innovative interdisciplinary thinking.</p> <p>Before joining Elsevier, Karin was a Technology Director with eBay Classifieds Group heading up core capability technology platforms on a global basis challenging how they respond to mobile wave as an organization and has held technology leadership roles at companies across a range of industries.</p> <p><strong>When did you join Mendeley?</strong></p> <p>I joined in June 2018</p> <p><strong>What do you love most about your job?</strong></p> <p>I gain energy from making a positive difference – and every time we talk to our customers, I see that the tools and services we are providing are helping them to be more successful. And a successful researcher is a researcher who is changing the world we live in. It’s great to be able to see real change happening as a result of what we build.</p> <p><strong>What book did you most recently read?</strong></p> <p>I most recently finished Jodi Taylor’s Hope for the Best. I usually have 2-3 books on the go at any one point in time – I am also reading Mary Beard’s Women & Power – but aim to always have something lighthearted and relaxing to wind down with at bed time.</p> <p><strong>What’s one thing you want people to know about Mendeley?</strong></p> <p>That we would love feedback on how to make Mendeley the most effective tool for them. It is really energizing when people reach out and give us feedback on how we can make our product better.</p> <p><strong>How would you explain your job to a stranger on a bus?</strong></p> <p>I make tools to help researchers crack their codes</p> <p><strong>What’s the most exciting part of your job?</strong></p> <p>The people – definitively the people! We have a team that’s passionate about what we are building, and we work with amazing researchers and thought leaders in our community.</p> <p><strong>What keeps you awake at night?</strong></p> <p>I tend to sleep quite soundly – but sometimes I do get woken up by a nocturnal member of my family. Sometimes it is a Great Dane who has decided to wake me for a midnight stroll and sometimes it is one of the cats proudly presenting their latest ‘gift’ with accompanying commentary on their night hunting prowess.</p> <p><strong>What’s the most interesting thing you’ve learned this week?</strong></p> <p>That’s a tough question! I try and keep up with new research in a few fields that interest me: there’s some fascinating new science showing just how far back man has been impacting weather patterns and creating global warming; showing the impact of diet/gut on health and how loss of hippos from riverine areas in Africa is impacting downstream in the health of the ecosystem.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-49406" class="post-49406 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-mendelife category-reference-management category-research-miscellanea category-uncategorized tag-mendeley tag-reference-management-software"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2019/02/25/show-your-mendeley-love/" rel="bookmark">Show your love for #MyMendeley!</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2019/02/25/show-your-mendeley-love/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2019-02-25T09:13:43+00:00">February 25, 2019</time><time class="updated" datetime="2019-02-25T12:35:54+00:00">February 25, 2019</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.mendeley.com/author/rbrennes/">Rachel Brennesholtz</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>As Mendeley Advisors, you do a great job speaking to the researcher community on your campus about the benefits of using Mendeley. But now we’re calling on you to spread the word even further! Take part in #MyMendeley by making a short video (15 seconds or less) about why you love Mendeley, and upload it to YouTube so we can share it across the social media universe. (We’ve also raided the marketing giveaways cupboard, so we’ll be sending backpacks and t-shirts to the makers of our favourite videos.)</p> <p>So here’s how it works:</p> <ul> <li>Upload a short video of yourself to YouTube, telling us about why you love Mendeley – maybe how it helps you with your research, your favourite feature, or why you’d recommend it to others</li> <li>Tag your video with #MyMendeley so we can find it and share it</li> </ul> <p>What’s in it for you?</p> <ul> <li>Mendeley Glory! We’ll be sharing the videos across our social media channels, so your wisdom will travel far and wide</li> <li>Giveaways! We’ve got new t-shirts and some other fun things to send to the makers of our favourite videos</li> </ul> <p>Looking for inspiration? Check out Mendeley team members <a href="https://youtu.be/Zbr3n5511EM">Rachel </a>and <a href="https://youtu.be/_5H5FMZnFqY">Daniel’s</a> videos.</p> <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="809" height="456" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_5H5FMZnFqY?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></div> <p>Some tips for making a good video:</p> <ul> <li>Keep your video short and snappy (15 seconds or less)</li> <li>Use a fun background! Maybe your lab, a sign of your university or something else that shows where you are from. We used New York City’s famous Grand Central Terminal and Elsevier’s rare book room at our Amsterdam headquarters</li> <li>Film somewhere that doesn’t have too much background noise</li> <li>Give your video a catchy title, and feel free to tell us more about yourself, your research and how you use Mendeley in the description</li> <li>Don’t forget to tag your video with #MyMendeley so we can find it!</li> </ul> <p>We’re looking forward to seeing your videos.</p> <p> </p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-46559" class="post-46559 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-meettheteam category-mendelife"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2015/02/26/meet-the-platform-team-part-ii/" rel="bookmark">Meet the Platform Team — Part II!</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2015/02/26/meet-the-platform-team-part-ii/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2015-02-26T13:07:53+00:00">February 26, 2015</time><time class="updated" datetime="2016-01-05T15:46:05+00:00">January 5, 2016</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.mendeley.com/author/shrutidesaimendeley/">Shruti Desai</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2015/02/26/meet-the-platform-team-part-ii/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>We profiled part of our <a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/start-up-life/mendelife/meet-the-platform-team-part-i/">Platform team last month</a>, but as it is our largest team here at Mendeley, we had to break it up into two parts. To be honest, we profiled the team in three parts, with the <a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/start-up-life/meet-the-api-team/">API team</a> taking the lead back in August.</p> <p>Why is the team so big? Because all those lines of code translate into giving Mendeley the base it needs for all of the features that make Mendeley what it is today.</p> <p>Read through their individual bios and find out how the Platform team helps every single team at Mendeley.</p> <h2>Richard Lyne</h2> <h4>Senior Software Engineer</h4> <div>Richard originally studied Physics with Space Science at UCL before falling into programming as a career.</div> <div>Mendeley has broken his track record of always working at acronyms.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>How do you describe your role on the <span class="il">Platform</span> Team?</strong></div> <div>I’m a software engineer and have worked on a number of projects from the data-pipeline, the recommender, and the API. Now I’m running the SSO project.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></div> <div>Definitely the people and culture here – couldn’t have asked for smarter or more interesting people to work with. And the day-to-day we have latitude to work with new technologies and practices.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong></div> <div>I started a football team up where I live so I could play regular 5-a-side games, some stargazing, and indoor/outdoor climbing.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <h2>Gianni O’Neill</h2> <h4>Java Developer</h4> <h4></h4> <div>Gianni previously worked at Kizoom/Trapeze making transport software.</div> <div></div> <div><strong><span class="im">How do you describe your role on the <span class="il">Platform</span> Team?<br /> </span></strong>Working on the back end services for Mendeley<br /> <span class="im"><br /> <strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> </span>Getting featured on the blog.</div> <div></div> <div><span class="im"><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> </span>Losing at pub quiz</div> <div></div> <h2>Chris Dawes</h2> <h4>Senior Java Developer</h4> <div> <div>Chris has only recently moved back to London after a stint in Berlin</div> <div>working for Aupeo — an online music service. Before that he worked at</div> <div>MX Telecom.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>How do you describe your role on the <span class="il">Platform</span> Team?</strong></div> <div>I started at the beginning of this year so I’ve been rotating around the different projects the <span class="il">platform </span>team is responsible for.</div> <div>I was particularly impressed at the level of engineering that’s gone in to the development-test-deployment cycle. This is pretty much the gold standard that everybody’s aiming for, with everything automated from commit through to deployment, scaling and monitoring.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></div> <div>It’s a great team — there’s a really good vibe and it’s actually a nice feeling to come in to the office every day. My team-mates are all extremely talented, and there’s always someone able to help out when things get tricky.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong></div> <div>I learnt to scuba dive last year so I’ve used all my leave so far (and possibly some karma too) to go diving in Malta and Thailand. A manta ray gliding over your head, almost within reach, is really special feeling.</div> </div> <p> </p> <h2>Ed Ingold</h2> <h4>Software Engineer</h4> <div>Ed is a former Anthropology student who realised paid employment was both inevitable and desirable. “Now I code. Generally not horribly,” he said.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>How do you describe your role on the <span class="il">Platform</span> Team?</strong></div> <div>Processing a lot of data and working out which researchers should be collaborating.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></div> <div>I have fun playing around with various shiny bits of technology. Also, it’s an indoor job with no heavy lifting. Sometimes there is pizza.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong></div> <div>Mostly playing a lot of board games.</div> <div></div> <div> <h2>Michael Watt</h2> <h4>Software Engineer</h4> <div>Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Michael graduated in 2004 with a Computer Science degree. In 2009, he decided to move to London for a change of scenery. Six years later, he’s still here and have had a number of jobs, largely doing back-end Java development in a number of domains including real estate, broadcasting, and finance.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>How do you describe your role on the <span class="il">Platform</span> Team?</strong></div> <div>I work on the services that power the various APIs used by Mendeley applications and third parties.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></div> <div>Working on diverse problems, with a team that is serious about continual improvement, on software that is used and found useful by a growing number of people.</div> <div></div> <div><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong></div> <div>Having a pint in a London pub; occasionally playing a guitar or piano (badly); playing with radio controlled things that fly.</div> <div></div> <h2>Piyush Bedi</h2> <h4>Software Engineer</h4> <p>Forged on the sandy hot beaches of Australia sometime in the 80s, Piyush is from a bygone era when it didn’t matter how big your data was. He mysteriously ended up on the other side of the world and must now practice as a Software Engineer to make his way back. Follow him on Twitter @grimyetcheerful</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the <span class="il">Platform</span> Team?</strong></p> <p>I work with an intelligent team to build our internal and external software <span class="il">platform</span>. This means developing RESTful services, APIs and map reduce jobs, so other people can interact with our awesome services and vast ocean of data.” When I feel homesick, I use that time to shoot down bugs (in our code).</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></p> <p>The amazing speed at which we can go from an idea in our heads to operational code for other people. I’ve worked in a lot of places, but Mendeley has one of the most agile environments I’ve ever had the privilege to work in. This is no doubt due to the great team and the software architecture they have developed.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p>Travelling around the British Isles (See <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/British_Isles_Euler_diagram_15.svg" target="_blank">diagram</a>) and the greater European continent, intense sports (like snowboarding, video gaming, and finding sunlight in London while carrying my wet laundry) and deciding what to eat for my next meal.</p> </div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-46488" class="post-46488 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-meettheteam category-mendelife"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2015/01/29/meet-the-platform-team-part-i/" rel="bookmark">Meet the Platform Team — part I</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2015/01/29/meet-the-platform-team-part-i/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2015-01-29T17:04:09+00:00">January 29, 2015</time><time class="updated" datetime="2016-01-05T15:46:18+00:00">January 5, 2016</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.mendeley.com/author/shrutidesaimendeley/">Shruti Desai</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2015/01/29/meet-the-platform-team-part-i/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Our Platform Team is easily the largest one here at Mendeley, hence the need to meet the team in two parts! But it is with good reason — the Platform team is exactly as it sounds, a firm base from which all Mendeley experiences are built. The Engineers and Developers on the team build code and work closely with other teams at Mendeley to help assess needs and address them with the right bit of software.</p> <p>What does that mean in practice? Read through their individual bios and find out how the Platform team helps every single team at Mendeley! And next month we’ll profile the other half of the team. Whew!</p> <h2>James Gibbons</h2> <p><strong>Principal Software Engineer</strong></p> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cpmh05uxqy3i3dmp68j0_400x400.png"><img data-attachment-id="46490" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/cpmh05uxqy3i3dmp68j0_400x400/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cpmh05uxqy3i3dmp68j0_400x400.png" data-orig-size="400,400" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="cpmh05uxqy3i3dmp68j0_400x400" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cpmh05uxqy3i3dmp68j0_400x400.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cpmh05uxqy3i3dmp68j0_400x400.png?w=400" class=" alignleft wp-image-46490" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cpmh05uxqy3i3dmp68j0_400x400.png" alt="cpmh05uxqy3i3dmp68j0_400x400" width="231" height="231" /></a><br /> James originally studied Computer Science, Linguistics and French. He’s worked in London for several years, mostly related to public transport before joining Mendeley in 2012. Find him on Twitter @james_gibbons</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the Platform Team?<br /> </strong>I tend to be involved in a lot of projects, trying to help explore the best ways of producing great software. I spend more time than most in meetings.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> Working with such a knowledgeable and insightful team is a privilege, as is having the chance to work with some very interesting tools and ideas to build a great platform for Mendeley.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> A variety of things, but in particular cycling which is common in Mendeley, and psephology, which isn’t.</p> <h2>Kristof Ujfalussy</h2> <p><strong>Software Engineer</strong></p> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Kristof.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46494" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/kristof/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/kristof.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2448" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"3.2","credit":"","camera":"Canon DIGITAL IXUS 860 IS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1363882463","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.142","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Kristof" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/kristof.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/kristof.jpg?w=809" class="alignleft wp-image-46494" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Kristof.jpg" alt="Kristof" width="269" height="202" /></a>After getting my BSc in Budapest, Kristof worked for a year in Hungary and<br /> then moved to London to get his Masters. After graduating, he stayed in<br /> London and worked at the Discovery Channel before joining Mendeley in<br /> 2012.</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the Platform Team?</strong><br /> I’m responsible for the data-pipeline stream. I work on jobs that process various sources of data for marketing purposes and help the analytics team generate KPIs for the business.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> Hackdays, relaxed atmosphere, lots of opportunities to learn.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> I do a lot of stuff, but I would say the thing I enjoy most is travelling, especially to places with beautiful nature.</p> <p> </p> <h2>William Doran</h2> <p><strong>Software Engineer<br /> </strong><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image-3.png"><img data-attachment-id="46502" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/image-3/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image-3.png" data-orig-size="655,873" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="image (3)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image-3.png?w=225" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image-3.png?w=655" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-46502" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/image-3.png" alt="image (3)" width="172" height="229" /></a>Phd in Computational linguistics -> 4yrs working for IBM Ireland (Java/HTML/JavaScript) -> Disney Uk ( Java/Javascript) -> Expedia Uk (Java) – Mendeley</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the Platform Team?<br /> </strong>Building things: web services, APIs, deployment tooling</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> Working with clever people and having the freedom to work with cutting edge technologies</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> Outdoorsy stuff, (hiking, running, cycling, saving kittens from trees, etc.)</p> <h2>Dr. David Ingram</h2> <p><strong>Principal Engineer</strong></p> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dmi.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46491" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/dmi/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dmi.jpg" data-orig-size="405,403" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="dmi" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dmi.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dmi.jpg?w=405" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-46491 alignleft" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dmi.jpg" alt="dmi" width="218" height="217" /></a>David’s background is a mix between the computer industry and academia. He has a PhD in operating systems, post doc research in distributed systems and has worked for AT&T Labs and Google.</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the Platform Team?</strong><br /> I build bridges between the Platform Team and other parts of the company, in particular with the Social Team and the Mobile Team. I work a lot on the Mendeley API, and help drive the development of Mendeley’s social network.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> Being part of a really great team who share a common purpose and believe in what they are doing.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> Contemporary Dance.</p> <h2>James Chancellor</h2> <p><strong>Software developer</strong></p> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/james.chancellor-1.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46493" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/james-chancellor-1/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/james-chancellor-1.jpg" data-orig-size="556,556" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1039348800","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.97","iso":"102","shutter_speed":"0.058823529411765","title":"","orientation":"0","latitude":"51.522327416667","longitude":"-0.10971697222222"}" data-image-title="james.chancellor (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/james-chancellor-1.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/james-chancellor-1.jpg?w=556" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-46493 alignleft" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/james.chancellor-1.jpg" alt="james.chancellor (1)" width="269" height="269" /></a>James graduated from Bristol University in mechanical engineering but got into software development soon after, having always been a hobby. He previously worked for Hotels.com and the online supermarket Ocado before that.</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the Platform Team?</strong><br /> I’m new so I’m just learning the ropes in the platform team. However the projects are well organised and it’s been straight forward to get working on stories, pushing code to production and contributing value from day one. I work on core services that support Mendeley products across all platforms.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> I appreciate the down-to-earth, friendly attitude of the team that has helped me settle in quickly. I also look forward to the support I know I have in developing my skills in the direction I want them to go.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> I learned how to hang glide a few years ago and try to get into the sky as often as I can. This usually involves driving down to the south coast, strapping myself to an aluminium/dacron contraption and running off a hill.</p> <h2>Davinder Mann</h2> <p><strong>Java Developer</strong></p> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Davinder.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46492" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/davinder/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/davinder.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2448" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"3.5","credit":"","camera":"Canon DIGITAL IXUS 860 IS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1396288459","copyright":"","focal_length":"7.564","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Davinder" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/davinder.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/davinder.jpg?w=809" loading="lazy" class=" alignleft wp-image-46492" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Davinder.jpg" alt="Davinder" width="252" height="189" /></a>Davinder previously worked for BAE Systems as a Java developer building a platform for structured data analytics</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the Platform Team?</strong><br /> Working on the core services that power Mendeley clients across different work streams.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> Flexibility on use of technologies and being able to move between work streams if desired.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> Golf and watching movies.</p> <h2>Víctor Fernández Peñalver</h2> <p><strong>Software Developer</strong></p> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/victor.png"><img data-attachment-id="46497" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/victor-3/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/victor.png" data-orig-size="652,1126" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="victor" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/victor.png?w=174" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/victor.png?w=593" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-46497" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/victor.png" alt="victor" width="166" height="287" /></a>Victor was born in Alicante Spain and his interest for computers started around 1987 when his parents bought him and his twin brother a Sinclair ZX Spectrum as a birthday present. He holds a BSc in Computer Science by the university of Skövde in Sweden and a MSc in Computer Science by the university of Alicante in Spain. He moved to London in 2007 and worked as software developer in few companies since then. He joined Mendeley in 2012. Find him on Twitter @yeforriak</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the Platform Team?</strong><br /> As a software developer in the platform team I’m responsible of writing software that is consumed by lots of people everyday, including other development teams as well. The daily work varies a lot, from writing more traditional Java services to Scala map reduce jobs or some parts of a recommender system using machine learning algorithms.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> My favourite thing is the opportunity to work with smart and talented people, I also enjoy practicing extreme programming and the ability of try new technologies.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> I like playing old school video games (ghost and goblins, new zealand story, captain commando are among my favourites). I also like to travel and practice a lot of sports including squash, skating, mountain bike, snowboarding, windsurfing, triathlon.</p> <h2>Dr. James Heather</h2> <p><strong>Principal Java Engineer</strong></p> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/james_and_the_roobster.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46496" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/james_and_the_roobster/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/james_and_the_roobster.jpg" data-orig-size="600,800" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 6","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1422524862","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.82","iso":"74","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"51.269663888889","longitude":"-0.60678055555556"}" data-image-title="james_and_the_roobster" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/james_and_the_roobster.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/james_and_the_roobster.jpg?w=600" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-46496" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/james_and_the_roobster.jpg" alt="james_and_the_roobster" width="189" height="252" /></a>Until recently, James was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey, conducting research into computer security, and secure voting in particular. Then he decided one day he should probably open the office door and see what the world outside was like…<br /> Find him on Twitter @drfudgeboy</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the Platform Team?</strong><br /> I press lots of buttons, and it makes our computers do things. When I press the right buttons, it makes our back end services work better. When I press the wrong buttons, our infrastructure generally spots it, and tells me to have another yoghurt and try again.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> As a former academic who spent most of his time writing and publishing papers, I am dead keen on supporting and promoting research. It’s really good to have a development role where the work I do helps my friends and colleagues in universities all around the world. And there’s free yoghurt.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> Free time? Ah yes, I remember that. I go to work, I play hide-and-seek with a two-year-old, I change nappies for a four-month-old, and I sleep in the gaps in between. In the three minutes left each week, my wife and I are active in our church (Emmanuel, Stoughton), we like watching cosy murders (Miss Marple, Poirot, etc.), and we kill plants.</p> <p> </p> <h2>Nikolett Harsányi</h2> <p><strong>Senior Java Engineer</strong></p> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DSC057652-1.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46495" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/dsc057652-1/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dsc057652-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1802,1666" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"3.3","credit":"","camera":"DSC-W690","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1408631224","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.45","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.005","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="DSC05765~2 (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dsc057652-1.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dsc057652-1.jpg?w=809" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-46495" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DSC057652-1.jpg" alt="DSC05765~2 (1)" width="300" height="277" /></a>Nikolett is a self-taught engineer. She was keen to be a teacher, helping, teaching and motivating people. At the university, she had a lot of ideas how she could make teaching easier,<br /> which is how she got involved in programming. “I just fell in love with programming, and I am very passionate to learn more and more,” she said.</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the Platform Team?</strong><br /> As a backend developer, I am responsible for developing services which are used by other people.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> Very talented and smart colleagues. I have plenty opportunity to learn in a very friendly environment.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> I really enjoy traveling, cooking, sewing and dancing. I’m very keen to pick up new skills in my free-time.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-46207" class="post-46207 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-meettheteam category-mendelife"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/09/25/meet-the-data-science-team/" rel="bookmark">Meet the Data Science Team!</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/09/25/meet-the-data-science-team/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2014-09-25T13:15:49+01:00">September 25, 2014</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.mendeley.com/author/shrutidesaimendeley/">Shruti Desai</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/09/25/meet-the-data-science-team/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>A big part of research is data, but for the Mendeley Data Sciences team, data is all they research. The team makes a big deal of big data, acting as wizards in our Mendeley world, magically bringing bits together. The Data Science team links data and projects, and connects research and business to build better products, such as the paper recommender and social networks. <a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/events-2/collaboration-is-key-to-making-the-most-of-big-data/">Collaboration is key to making the most of big data</a>, and our Data Science team is constantly involved with conferences, meetings and internal talks to help connect Mendeley to the world of research.</p> <h2>Kris Jack</h2> <h3><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/krisjack.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46208" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/krisjack/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/krisjack.jpg" data-orig-size="120,129" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="krisjack" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/krisjack.jpg?w=120" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/krisjack.jpg?w=120" loading="lazy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-46208" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/krisjack.jpg" alt="krisjack" width="120" height="129" /></a>Chief Data Scientist</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/_krisjack">@_krisjack</a></p> <p>Kris joined Mendeley in 2010. He has a wide range of experience in Data Science both in industry and academia.</p> <p>He obtained BSc Hons in Computer Science at the University of Dundee in 2002, followed by a PhD in 2006. Following that, Kris was employed as an Expert R&D Engineer in France Telecom until 2008 then at the Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique until 2009. Before joining Mendeley, he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Manchester in their Text Mining team.</p> <h4>How do you describe your role on the Data Science Team?</h4> <p>I’m responsible for leading the Data Science team, making way for them to do great work and hopefully pitching in myself along the way.</p> <h4>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</h4> <p>Knowing that we’re making a difference to how research gets done. As a researcher myself, I know how hard research is and how much easier we could make it with the right tools to support us.</p> <h4>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</h4> <p>Relaxing with my family.</p> <p> </p> <h2>Phil Gooch</h2> <h3>Senior Data Scientist<a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/philgooch.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46209" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/philgooch/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/philgooch.jpg" data-orig-size="120,161" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="philgooch" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/philgooch.jpg?w=120" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/philgooch.jpg?w=120" loading="lazy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-46209" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/philgooch.jpg" alt="philgooch" width="120" height="161" /></a></h3> <p>Phil joined Mendeley in June 2014. He’s been conjuring structured knowledge from unstructured text within STM publishing and in academia for several years.</p> <p>Prior to Mendeley, Phil worked for Oxford University Press as a Language Technologist. He completed a PhD in Health Informatics in 2012. Following this, he worked as a Research Associate for the University of Sheffield in their Natural Language Processing group, and as Research Developer in Digital Humanities at Kings College, London. In previous career-lives, Phil worked as a rehab therapist in the NHS, a computer games programmer, and musician.</p> <h4><a href="https://twitter.com/Phil_Gooch">@Phil_Gooch</a></h4> <p>How do you describe your role on the Data Science Team?</p> <p>I contribute expertise in natural language processing and information extraction, so that as a Data Science team, and in collaboration with our Platform team, we can create useful – and hopefully exciting! – tools for researchers.</p> <h4>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</h4> <p>I love working with text, and developing workflows and tools to uncover the knowledge and connections that are buried in the vast amount of research literature. Also, working with the really smart people here who can work the magic to turn prototype code into something production-worthy!</p> <h4>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</h4> <p>Long walks in the countryside with family and friends, being by the sea, cycling, writing music, enjoying the arts.</p> <p> </p> <h2>Maya Hristakeva</h2> <h3>Senior Data Scientist</h3> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/maya.png"><img data-attachment-id="46211" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/maya/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/maya.png" data-orig-size="95,125" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="maya" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/maya.png?w=95" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/maya.png?w=95" loading="lazy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-46211" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/maya.png" alt="maya" width="95" height="125" /></a>Machine learning is Maya’s passion and she has focused her entire career thus far in this space by developing algorithms and building software within start-up organisations. Before moving to the UK in 2010, Maya was a Machine Learning PhD student at University of California- Santa Cruz. She also worked as a Researcher at Silicon Valley based startup C8 Medisensors, where she developed algorithms to non-invasively measure blood sugar in people (using ramen spectroscopy – no needles).</p> <p>After moving to the UK, Maya worked at Mendeley before the Elsevier acquisition as a Data Mining Engineer. Then, I joined Cognitive Match, another startup, as a Sr. Research Scientist focusing on using machine learning techniques for behavioral targeting and recommendations.</p> <p>Within 2 years my path crossed with Mendeley again after the Elsevier acquisition. She is happy to be back working as a member of the Data Science team where we are focused on the next generation of solutions to help our users connect to their research and to other collaborators in innovative, valuable ways.</p> <h4>How do you describe your role on the Data Science Team?</h4> <p>I work on building recommender systems to help researchers contextualise their work within the global body of research, and connect them with relevant researchers, groups and articles.</p> <h4>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</h4> <p>I enjoy the creative working environment, lots of smart and diverse people, as well as having the latest technologies at my fingertips. I also love that Mendeley reaches millions of people with our products and makes a difference in researchers’ lives.</p> <h4>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</h4> <p>Wine, Food, Kickboxing, Argentine Tango, and Traveling (but not necessarily in that order)</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-46067" class="post-46067 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-meettheteam category-mendelife category-start-up-life"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/08/28/meet-the-api-team/" rel="bookmark">Meet the API Team!</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/08/28/meet-the-api-team/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2014-08-28T16:22:30+01:00">August 28, 2014</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.mendeley.com/author/shrutidesaimendeley/">Shruti Desai</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/08/28/meet-the-api-team/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2P0mJLL1YLM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&listType=playlist&list=PLw2QJJ5mQP4j765IlW_X-U2mSb60xiq-d" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></div> <p>Keeping science open has always been part of Mendeley’s mission. There are many ways we achieve this, but our developer portal throws opens the Mendeley platform for developers to create and build tools to make researchers’ lives easier using <strong>Application Programming Interfaces</strong> — known as APIs. It is thanks to the Mendeley API that some of your favorite Mendeley third-party apps exist, like <a href="http://www.kinsync.com/">KinSync</a>, <a href="http://www.shazino.com/">PaperShip</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.matthewwardrop.scholarley&hl=en">Scholarley</a>, to name a few. <a href="http://www.3scale.net/2014/08/built-innovate-benefit-apis-higher-education/">Even higher education is getting into the API game</a>.</p> <p>And now our API website has a fresh new look and a beta release. The team is currently working with a technical writer to improve the documentation, and are also busy trying to get SDKs out for mobile and other languages for a major release sometime later this year.</p> <p>Think you’re ready to hack? Know any code monkeys interested in building tools to make researchers’ lives easier? Visit our <a href="http://dev.mendeley.com/">Dev Portal</a> to learn more and follow our brand-new <a href="http://mendeleyapi.wordpress.com/">Mendeley API blog</a>. And meet the team behind the API in this months’ “Meet the Mendeley Team.”</p> <p><a href="http://dev.mendeley.com/"><img data-attachment-id="46073" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/screen-shot-2014-08-28-at-09-48-47/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-28-at-09-48-47.png" data-orig-size="553,77" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2014-08-28 at 09.48.47" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-28-at-09-48-47.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-28-at-09-48-47.png?w=553" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-46073 aligncenter" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2014-08-28-at-09.48.47.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-08-28 at 09.48.47" width="553" height="77" /></a></p> <p> </p> <h2>Joyce Stack – Developer Outreach</h2> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/joyce-marie-1.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46069" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/joyce-marie-1/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/joyce-marie-1.jpg" data-orig-size="200,200" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="joyce-marie (1)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/joyce-marie-1.jpg?w=200" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/joyce-marie-1.jpg?w=200" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-46069 alignleft" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/joyce-marie-1.jpg" alt="joyce-marie (1)" width="200" height="200" /></a>Joyce Stack completed a BSc. (Hons) Computer Science from The Open University while working in a startup in Co. Cork, Ireland. She moved to London in 2005 to join one of the City’s leading exponents of agile techniques at that time to work as a Java Developer. She is now working in the Developer Outreach role in Mendeley.<br /> Connect with her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/mendeleystack">@MendeleyStack</a></p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the API Team?</strong></p> <p>Mainly my role is to be the “physical manifestation” of the API at conferences, meetups and hackathons.</p> <p>Also, my role is to ensure we are engaging with all our clients and potential clients on the main social channels e.g. Twitter, Stack Overflow, blogs, etc.</p> <p>My main responsibilities are to build up an excellent developer experience and support people in building great apps and demonstrating the value of our dataset to new potential clients. Basically, engaging with our developer community to drive adoption. Also, I’m the conduit between clients, both internal and external into the platform team and product teams, from an API perspective.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></p> <p>I get fed a lot. There is always a fridge full of food, ice-cream, fruit and drinks.</p> <p>Primarily, though I was never one for endless iterations of work, I like the variety in this role. I get to wear many hats, e.g. product owner, support person, coder, debugger, marketing, blogger.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> Take trips away to new places (8 so far this year), drinking brown beer and keeping fit with boxercise, spinning and weights.</p> <h2></h2> <h2>Matt Thomson – Senior Software Developer</h2> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/205722_828897940090_2439175_n.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46068" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/205722_828897940090_2439175_n/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/205722_828897940090_2439175_n.jpg" data-orig-size="242,354" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Matt Thompson" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/205722_828897940090_2439175_n.jpg?w=205" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/205722_828897940090_2439175_n.jpg?w=242" loading="lazy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-46068" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/205722_828897940090_2439175_n.jpg" alt="Matt Thompson" width="242" height="354" /></a>Matt was born and grew up in Scunthorpe in the North of England. After graduating with an MMath from the University of Cambridge, he moved to London to join a telecommunications software provider, before joining the platform team at Mendeley in 2012.</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the API Team?</strong></p> <p>I’m one of the developers of the Mendeley API, responsible for building new features, keeping the API running smoothly, and making sure that it meets the needs of all of our client developers, both internally and externally.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></p> <p>The problems are challenging, our technology stack is exciting, and the people are friendly and supportive. I bet everyone says “the people”, though.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p>I’m a big fan of live comedy, and performed improvised comedy for a number of years, most notably at the Edinburgh Fringe with London’s (now defunct) Fat Kitten Improv. I also enjoy exploring London’s green spaces and pubs, and am a long-suffering follower of Scunthorpe United.</p> <h2>Dr David Ingram —Principal Engineer</h2> <p>David’s background is a mix between working in the computer industry and academia — he has a PhD in operating systems, did post doc research in distributed systems, and worked for both AT&T Labs and Google.</p> <p><strong>How do you describe your role on the API Team?<a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_20140828_123018.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46070" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/img_20140828_123018/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/img_20140828_123018.jpg" data-orig-size="1536,1153" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1409228860","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.97","iso":"489","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"51.522127777778","longitude":"-0.10965277777778"}" data-image-title="David Ingram" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/img_20140828_123018.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/img_20140828_123018.jpg?w=809" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-46070 alignleft" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_20140828_123018.jpg" alt="David Ingram" width="350" height="250" /></a></strong></p> <p>My role is currently to look at the API both from within and from external client perspectives. I try to make sure the most important client needs are met while keeping the implementation clean and maintainable.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></p> <p>The best thing about Mendeley is our goal, to improve the productivity of researchers everywhere.</p> <p><strong>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p>In my free time when I’m not hacking, I teach dance.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-45997" class="post-45997 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-community-relations category-mendelife"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/07/30/meet-the-product-team/" rel="bookmark">Meet the Product Team!</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/07/30/meet-the-product-team/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2014-07-30T12:30:15+01:00">July 30, 2014</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.mendeley.com/author/shrutidesaimendeley/">Shruti Desai</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>We often have users writing to us describing Mendeley as a sort of religious experience — we see a lot of exclamation points here at Mendeley. So it may sound a bit clinical to describe Mendeley as a “product,” but everything the Product Team does here at Mendeley leads to creating the tool you know and love (exclamation points!!).</p> <p>Product deals with all aspects of how you, as users, interact with Mendeley from your computer or tablet or phone. They work collaboratively with each other and with the other teams at Mendeley to create the features you love (or, perhaps, need), and ensure that they are usable.</p> <p>Our Product Team is always interested to learn more about how you use Mendeley and other websites and tools. If you are in the London area at any time, <a href="mailto:shruti.desai@mendeley.com">email us </a>and arrange a User Testing session — there is a pack of goodies and a gift certificate in it for you!</p> <h2>Matt Coulson</h2> <h3>Senior Product Manager</h3> <p>Follow me on Twitter @<a href="https://twitter.com/mattcoulson72">mattcoulson72</a> <a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_20140724_145314.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46001" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/img_20140724_145314/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_20140724_145314.jpg" data-orig-size="1536,2048" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1406213593","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.97","iso":"246","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"51.522138888889","longitude":"-0.10964444444444"}" data-image-title="Matt Coulson" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_20140724_145314.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_20140724_145314.jpg?w=768" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-46001" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_20140724_145314.jpg" alt="Matt Coulson" width="179" height="239" /></a></p> <p>I’ve worked in Product Management for around 12 years, including working for Messagelabs (now Symantec), Virgin Media and, for the last 6 years, at the BBC. At the BBC I led a team of 5 product managers and worked on a number of their products and services including News, Sport, Radio and Music and BBC Red Button!</p> <p><strong>How would you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong> My role is to bring a portfolio level view and agile product ownership expertise to the product team. In other words, help the product machine run that bit better and slicker. Here at Mendeley we’re entering a ‘hyper growth’ phase which means we have the amazing opportunity to build lots of cool new features that will delight our users and support our strategy. To do this we’ll need to do a number of things, but perhaps most importantly we need to invest wisely, make the right choices and trade-offs and ultimately deliver products that knock the socks off our users. My aim is to make this process better, clearer and more transparent.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley?</strong> I think I’d have to say the people. They are one smart and savvy bunch. Good to see so much passion for delivering top quality experiences to users as well.</p> <p><strong>What do you like to do in your free time?</strong> I like to travel, cook, walk, exercise (lightly!), game, films, gigs and reading. Sadly I can’t profess to be a part-time acrobat or other exotic pass-times but I’m open to ideas!</p> <h2>See Wah Cheng</h2> <h3>Product Manager</h3> <p>Follow me on Twitter @<a href="https://twitter.com/seewahcheng">seewahcheng</a> <a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/See-Wah.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45998" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/see-wah-2/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/see-wah.jpg" data-orig-size="495,600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="See-Wah" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/see-wah.jpg?w=248" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/see-wah.jpg?w=495" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-45998" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/See-Wah.jpg" alt="See-Wah" width="198" height="240" /></a></p> <p>I joined Mendeley as a web developer four years ago. Over my career in Mendeley, I have seen the release of many products. Gradually I picked up more insights into user experience and user needs, so I decided to take on the challenge of product management! I feel passionate about improving people’s lives through technology.</p> <p><strong>How would you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong> To transform visions into tangible features. I have mostly worked with web products. I love my role in Mendeley because it is so multi-faceted. I am involved in literally every stage of a project, from defining goals, interviewing users, through to organising and prioritizing sprint tasks. I work with data, design, technology and people! The sense of achievement when you see ideas and wireframes turning into actual products that people actually use is incredible.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley?</strong> Everyone here is so passionate about what we do. And more importantly, we are making the world a better place by giving researchers a helping hand!</p> <p><strong>What do you like to do in your free time?</strong> I do quite a bit of cycling and rock climbing. I am also very much into architecture and architectural history. <a href="http://www.seewah.com/art-deco-london/">Check it out</a>.</p> <h2>Steve Dennis</h2> <h3>Product Designer</h3> <p>Follow me on Twitter @<a href="https://twitter.com/subcide">subcide </a> <a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Steve-Dennis.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46003" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/steve-dennis-3/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/steve-dennis.jpg" data-orig-size="500,500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Steve-Dennis" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/steve-dennis.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/steve-dennis.jpg?w=500" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-46003" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Steve-Dennis.jpg" alt="Steve-Dennis" width="202" height="202" /></a></p> <p>Steve grew up in New Zealand, and moved to London in 2010 ‘for a bit of a change’. He’s been designing for the web for over 12 years, and has involved himself in many areas including interaction and visual design, user experience, front-end web development, and product management.</p> <p><strong>How would you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong> I am currently a Product Designer for the iOS and upcoming Android apps, though I dabble in many areas across the company.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley?</strong> Interacting with our users, and delivering things that solve real-world problems or pain points for them. The free food is also pretty great.</p> <p><strong>What do you like to do in your free time?</strong> Design, rock climbing, and disruptive technologies (specifically Virtual Reality and Bitcoin).</p> <h2>Matthew Green</h2> <h3>Product Manager</h3> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Matt-Green.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46004" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/matt-green-2/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/matt-green.jpg" data-orig-size="495,600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Matt-Green" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/matt-green.jpg?w=248" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/matt-green.jpg?w=495" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-46004 " src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Matt-Green.jpg" alt="Matt-Green" width="346" height="420" /></a>International Politics degree at the University of Birmingham, which led me into a career in online gaming (obviously) with Betfair. I was with Betfair for 5 years until I decided I needed a change…went off to Central & South America for a few months, came back and worked on a startup with a friend before doing some work with onefinestay.com and then finally finding my calling at mendeley.com for the last (almost) 2 years. The product was awesome, the industry was interesting and the people are great, so it’s been a good few years. In other, less interesting news, i’ve been in London since 2006 – resident solely in Northeast London until recently when i’ve taken the drastic decision to move to the up & coming Southeast.</p> <p><strong>How would you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong> I look after the institutional product offering at Mendeley (MIE) – which involves speaking to librarians, research managers & the odd researcher to find what what they want & need to support an institutional implementation of Mendeley. User adoption is key for us, and the more Institutions that adopt Mendeley the better as all their researchers get to use a premium version of our great product!</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley?</strong> Doing something useful – it makes a big difference compared to my previous roles. I also don’t think I could ever not work next to a food market anymore…</p> <p><strong>What do you like to do in your free time?</strong> I play football for Priory Park Rangers (named after the first road I lived on when I moved to London), and cycle & run a lot…I also like to go on holiday…as much as I can…to as many places as possible 🙂</p> <h2>Greg Homola</h2> <h3>UX Designer</h3> <p><strong><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_20140730_111215.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46002" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/img_20140730_111215/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_20140730_111215.jpg" data-orig-size="1536,2048" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1406718734","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.97","iso":"299","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"51.522383333333","longitude":"-0.10962777777778"}" data-image-title="Greg Homola" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_20140730_111215.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_20140730_111215.jpg?w=768" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-46002" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_20140730_111215.jpg" alt="Greg Homola" width="179" height="239" /></a>How would you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong> My favourite part is I do not have to choose between visual and UX design. That means my role is pretty varied and I really enjoy it.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley?</strong> I work with amazing people both personally and professionally, and I mean it.</p> <p><strong>What do you like to do in your free time?</strong> I love spending my time with my family, travelling. Also I am a keen amateur photographer, so I can combine all these things on some lucky days. I like reading and learning and also like sports like basketball, snowboarding and others.</p> <h1></h1> <h2>Andrew Officer</h2> <h3>UX/Product Designer</h3> <p>Follow me on Twitter @<a href="https://twitter.com/andrewofficer">andrewofficer</a> <a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/AndrewOfficer.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="46000" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/andrewofficer/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/andrewofficer.jpg" data-orig-size="500,443" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="AndrewOfficer" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/andrewofficer.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/andrewofficer.jpg?w=500" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-46000 " src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/AndrewOfficer.jpg" alt="AndrewOfficer" width="260" height="230" /></a></p> <p>Digital product designer with a background in interaction design. Previous to Mendeley, I co-founded a web-design startup in the West Midlands, where I worked as design lead, producing the creative and front-end code for public, private and e-commerce websites. My specialities live in end-to-end product development, user-centered research, interaction design and user interface design for online digital products.</p> <p><strong>How would you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong> UX/Product hybrid. I work closely with business stakeholders, product managers, designers, developers and end-users to understand needs and influence product strategy, ensuring that the best products and features make it to the marketplace and with an optimal user experience. I’m involved in all user facing aspects of product delivery, from speaking with researchers, requirements gathering, scoping out interaction design, designing interfaces with abit of marketing thrown in.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley?</strong> The diversity of the role and being involved in all aspects of the business. Having the scope to work with various skillsets in areas that wouldn’t typically be under my remit. Solving difficult problems from a hugely smart and diverse audience group with differing careers levels, from a range of disciplines that have complex use cases and needs to work with. Being part of something than can ultimately change the world for the better makes the job hugely satisfying compared to other industries.</p> <p><strong>What do you like to do in your free time?</strong> In my spare time I can be found collecting and mixing records, snowboarding, DIY and enjoying the unhealthy culinary delights the world has to offer such as hamburgers, hipster beer, curried goat and ramen.</p> <h2>Joe Shell</h2> <h3>Senior Product Manager — Data</h3> <p>Follow me on Twitter @<a href="https://twitter.com/josephshell">JosephShell</a> <a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/10338676_10154150326490183_7555716694890226764_o-1.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45999" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/10338676_10154150326490183_7555716694890226764_o-1/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/10338676_10154150326490183_7555716694890226764_o-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1260,705" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Joe shell" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/10338676_10154150326490183_7555716694890226764_o-1.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/10338676_10154150326490183_7555716694890226764_o-1.jpg?w=809" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-45999" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/10338676_10154150326490183_7555716694890226764_o-1.jpg" alt="Joe shell" width="297" height="166" /></a></p> <p>I like persistent, discoverable, reusable, sciency, webby things. Formerly of <a href="http://www.nature.com/">Nature</a>.</p> <p><strong>How would you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong> I own the Mendeley Data program of projects.</p> <p><strong>What is your favourite part about working at Mendeley?</strong> It’s growing.</p> <p><strong>What do you like to do in your free time?</strong> Tarot card reading.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-45925" class="post-45925 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-community-relations category-mendelife"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/06/30/meet-the-sysadmin-team/" rel="bookmark">Meet the SysAdmin Team!</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/06/30/meet-the-sysadmin-team/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2014-06-30T16:38:50+01:00">June 30, 2014</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.mendeley.com/author/shrutidesaimendeley/">Shruti Desai</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Considering that Mendeley is a software taking full advantage of the internet and cloud storage, it is impossible to underscore the importance of the SysAdmin — short for System Administration — team at Mendeley. The team is responsible for ensuring our computer systems, databases, and networks are working reliably and efficiently.</p> <p>But they are far from being a “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8">have you tried turning it <span style="text-decoration:underline;">off and on again</span></a>” I.T. response team — the SysAdmin team is constantly working on developing and maximizing our systems, working closely with engineers and API developers, and ensuring the integrity of our data and systems.</p> <p>However, it also behooves me to write nice things about them, as they are also responsible for making sure each employee at Mendeley has the correct computing tools needed to do their job — and can’t you see me with a brand-new tablet? :-p</p> <h1>Robin Stephenson</h1> <h2>Vice President of Engineering</h2> <p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Robin.png"><img id="selected_gravatar" class="alignleft" src="https://en.gravatar.com/userimage/11750465/d352fbfb92b07bec7c2d64a71da898d5.png?size=200" alt="Robin" width="200" height="200" /></a>Back in Elsevier after many years with intermediate experience in a variety of roles, including various other publishers, banking and transport information. Started as a Perl developer on Sun workstations; now more interested in operating Scala running in Hadoop on AWS.</p> <p><strong>1. How do you describe your role/what you do on the SysAdmin Team?</strong><br /> Maintain longer-term goals of the engineering team; making it work, and helping them work. Immanentising the eschaton by adopting good ideas and expunging terrible ones.</p> <p><strong>2. What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></p> <p>An informal atmosphere, and the ability to take decisions.</p> <p><strong>3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong><br /> Cycling, learning, spending time with my family.</p> <p> </p> <h1>Kubilay Tsil Kara</h1> <h2>Database Administrator</h2> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Kubilay.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45927" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/kubilay/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kubilay.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2448" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"3.2","credit":"","camera":"Canon DIGITAL IXUS 860 IS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1386678626","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.142","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Kubilay" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kubilay.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kubilay.jpg?w=809" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-45927 alignleft" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Kubilay.jpg" alt="Kubilay" width="200" height="150" /></a>Kubilay studied in University of Westminster, earning a Masters of Science in Database Systems, with experience in database design, data modelling and data integration between systems and applications.</p> <p><strong>1. How do you describe your role/what you do on the Syadmin Team?</strong><br /> Responsible for the day to day database administration, database performance tuning and data integration activities in the company.</p> <p><strong>2. What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong><br /> I like working in Mendeley because it uses cutting edge technology and platforms to provide its services, always trying new things and exploring methods to do things better. People working in Mendeley are very knowledgeable and innovative and there is always opportunity and time to try new things.</p> <p><strong>3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p>Travelling, Cars, Fishing, Cinema and Chess</p> <p> </p> <h1>James Rasell</h1> <h2>Systems Administrator</h2> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/James-Rassell.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45928" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/james-rassell/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/james-rassell.jpg" data-orig-size="612,709" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Xolaroid 2000","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="James Rassell" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/james-rassell.jpg?w=259" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/james-rassell.jpg?w=612" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-45928" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/James-Rassell.jpg" alt="James Rassell" width="200" height="232" /></a>James graduated in 2005 from Kingston University with a BSc Hons in Earth and Planetary Science and worked within the oil and hosting industries before moving to Mendeley 18 months ago.</p> <p><strong>1. How do you describe your role/what you do on the SysAdmin Team?</strong></p> <p>As a sysadmin my tasks vary from fixing printers to managing, planning, testing and conducting large scale migrations and upgrades. One of my key skills within the team is Hadoop for which I obtained my CCAH last year.</p> <p><strong>2. What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></p> <p>I get to work with awesome and intelligent people as well as having the chances to constantly develop my knowledge.</p> <p><strong>3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p>Drawing, playing bass, running, tennis, music, art, tattoos, beer, wine, travelling….(the list goes on)</p> <p> </p> <h1>Steffen Rick</h1> <h2>Systems Administrator</h2> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/photo-2.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45930" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/photo-2-2/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/photo-2.jpg" data-orig-size="960,1280" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPad Air","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1403476441","copyright":"","focal_length":"2.15","iso":"1600","shutter_speed":"0.066666666666667","title":"","orientation":"0","latitude":"51.493358333333","longitude":"-0.22442777777778"}" data-image-title="photo (2)" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/photo-2.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/photo-2.jpg?w=768" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-45930" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/photo-2.jpg" alt="photo (2)" width="200" height="267" /></a>The newest member of Mendeley, Steffen Rick has been in this profession a long time. He started working right away and “I can remember the heydays of the internet, I joined pretty much at that time.” Steffen also remembers the internet bubble bursting, but is happy that both it, and he, have recovered.</p> <p>Steffen has traveled to many countries and worked several places. He said he feels lucky when he answered the phone when the agency called and asked “Do you want to work for Mendeley?”</p> <p><strong>1. How do you describe your role/what you do on the SysAdmin Team?</strong></p> <p>I’m basically hired as Sysadmin, working on keeping things running, hoping I can contribute to improving it too.</p> <p><strong>2. What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</strong></p> <p>The proper display of attitude, software code is actually being written at this place.</p> <p><strong>3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p>All the things others enjoy too. Drinking beer, going to concerts, various forms of sport, working on becoming a FreeBSD committer.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-45820" class="post-45820 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-mendelife category-start-up-life"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/05/28/meet-the-qasupport-team/" rel="bookmark">Meet the QA/Support Team!</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/05/28/meet-the-qasupport-team/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2014-05-28T17:52:36+01:00">May 28, 2014</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.mendeley.com/author/shrutidesaimendeley/">Shruti Desai</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>It’s a scenario that can give any researcher the cold sweats: an eleventh-hour crash of a program just minutes before a paper deadline. Luckily, thanks to the efforts of our Quality Assurance and Support team, Mendeley strives hard to ensure this never happens. While our developers put their all into designing a great product, Quality Assurance are there to ensure we’ve written tests to cover all the edge cases, and that we don’t let those pesky bugs into the wild.</p> <p>And what if things do go wrong? Support is there to iron out any wrinkles, whether it be from a new user still trying to learn the ropes, an expert submitting a bug report, or fielding requests from users to hand off to our developers.</p> <h2>Callum Anderson</h2> <h4></h4> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_20140527_160805.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45824" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/img_20140527_160805/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140527_160805.jpg" data-orig-size="768,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1401206883","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.97","iso":"215","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"51.522311111111","longitude":"-0.10961111111111"}" data-image-title="Callum Anderson" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140527_160805.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140527_160805.jpg?w=768" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-45824" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_20140527_160805.jpg" alt="Callum Anderson" width="198" height="265" /></a></p> <h3>Team Lead</h3> <p>Callum’s worked in technology for a few years now, both as a Business Analyst, and in QA. He grew up in St. Albans (just outside London) and holds degrees in English and Computer Science.</p> <h4>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</h4> <p>I’m lucky enough to be involved in a lot of different projects, so it’s unlikely I’ll be doing the same thing from one day to the next. I could be in meetings planning features and implementation for a new product or service, or at my desk all day writing ruby— I love that variety.</p> <h4>What’s your favourite part of working at Mendeley?</h4> <p>We get to work with the latest technologies and some of the best brains in the industry.</p> <h4>What do you like to do in your free time?</h4> <p>I am into running and triathlons – I’m actually competing in the UK Ironman triathlon later this year, so training for that is taking up quite a bit of my spare time. I also try spend a few hours each week reading about or playing with new technologies.</p> <h1></h1> <h2>Michał Buś</h2> <h3>Senior QA Engineer</h3> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_20140528_132500.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45822" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/img_20140528_132500/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140528_132500.jpg" data-orig-size="768,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1401283499","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.97","iso":"191","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"51.522322222222","longitude":"-0.109625"}" data-image-title="Michal Bus" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140528_132500.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140528_132500.jpg?w=768" loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-45822" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_20140528_132500.jpg" alt="Michal Bus" width="268" height="358" /></a>Michał was born and grew up in Kraków, Poland. where he studied sociology at Jagiellonian University, before moving to Edinburgh, and then London.<br /> Following a string of varied roles, he found his interest for testing software after joining Last.fm, a music startup, in a diverse ‘resident Polish person’ role that involved anything from translation and copy-editing to liaising with music labels and festival organisers. He joined Mendeley nearly 5 years ago and has enjoyed helping it grow into what it is today, being kept busy/interested ever since. Follow him @michalboo</p> <h4>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</h4> <p>Test all the things, as early as possible. I’m particularly interested in doing as much as I can to help Mendeley build software that people will actually use. Also: investigating, finding, documenting and helping to fix bugs (Reported bug count at the time of writing: 1,092)</p> <h4>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</h4> <p>Some of the people are nice enough, I guess. (<em>Editor’s note: Michał’s deadpan humor…we hope!</em>) I also enjoy being able to get involved in a wide variety of projects, testing different products in different ways. Consistently learning new things and being kept on my toes.</p> <h4>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</h4> <p>Going to a lot of gigs – before joining Mendeley, I worked on promoting live music in Kraków and Warsaw with my brother and some friends, and now use living in London as an opportunity to help them out and ‘talent scout’ by seeing and hearing as many new acts as my ears can take. My other interests include: playing basketball, flâneuring around London, reading books, lahmacun and setting up ephemeral ‘projects’ on tumblr.</p> <h1></h1> <h2>Josh Cole</h2> <h3>Technical Support Representative</h3> <h3><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_1886.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45833" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/img_1886/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_1886.jpg" data-orig-size="1714,1941" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 4S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1361541994","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.28","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Josh Cole" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_1886.jpg?w=265" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_1886.jpg?w=809" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-45833" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_1886.jpg" alt="Josh Cole" width="282" height="319" /></a></h3> <p>Josh studied mathematics at the University of York, but decided that 3 years of maths was more than enough, so he moved into Technical Support. He said he came to Mendeley for a new challenge and to make my mark in an up and coming startup.</p> <p> </p> <h4>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</h4> <p>I deal with customer questions and issues with the various Mendeley products (Mendeley Desktop, Web, the app, etc), as well as escalating recurring problems/features with our various Development Teams.</p> <h4>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</h4> <p>I love working in a constantly evolving work environment that supports learning and development.</p> <h4>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</h4> <p>I enjoy playing video games on my Xbox 360, as well as Starcraft and watching good films or really, really bad films. I’ve also recently discovered badminton, which I’m awful at, but I love anyway.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <h2>Veronica Mejias Meneses</h2> <h3>QA Engineer</h3> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Photo-on-20-05-2014-at-12.44-31.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45840" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/photo-on-20-05-2014-at-12-44-3-2/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-on-20-05-2014-at-12-44-31.jpg" data-orig-size="787,637" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Veronica" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-on-20-05-2014-at-12-44-31.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/photo-on-20-05-2014-at-12-44-31.jpg?w=787" loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-45840" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Photo-on-20-05-2014-at-12.44-31.jpg" alt="VERONICA" width="400" height="324" /></a>Veronica studied Computer Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. She moved to the UK 5 years ago and landed in Mendeley, where her career took a turn in the right direction.</p> <h4>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</h4> <p>I test the software. Over and over. My main job is to write automated tests to make sure new features don’t break old ones. I also been working on our testing infrastructure lately, to help us moving onto a more reliable, faster platform.</p> <h4>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</h4> <p>At Mendeley there is constant challenge, constant learning. I work with a very nice and talented team, and the rest of my colleagues are really nice to work with too.</p> <h4>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</h4> <p>In my spare time I enjoy talking to my family, baking, crochet, reading, travelling, cycling, swimming, watching Qi, among many other things.</p> <p> </p> <h2>Tiago Lourenço Nobre</h2> <h3>QA Automation Engineer</h3> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_20140528_142247.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45821" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/img_20140528_142247/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140528_142247.jpg" data-orig-size="768,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1401286966","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.97","iso":"243","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"51.522294444444","longitude":"-0.10958055555556"}" data-image-title="Tiago" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140528_142247.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140528_142247.jpg?w=768" loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-45821" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_20140528_142247.jpg" alt="Tiago" width="187" height="249" /></a>Tiago went to Uni near his hometown in Leiria, Portugal at Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Leiria, where he studied computer engineering. He worked at PT Inovação a telecommunication group in Aveiro as a automation tester in a continuous integration environment before he came to Mendeley.</p> <h4>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</h4> <p>At the moment, I am working on automation tests and building, along with my team, a continuous integration & delivery. Also, importantly, I am learning new things everyday.</p> <h4>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</h4> <p>Every day is a learning day and I have the opportunity to work with new technologies.</p> <h4>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</h4> <p>Cycling, not riding the tube, cooking, play tennis</p> <p> </p> <h2>Charlotte Organ</h2> <h3>Customer support representative</h3> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_20140527_152810-1.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45823" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/img_20140527_152810-1/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140527_152810-1.jpg" data-orig-size="768,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"Nexus 5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1401204488","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.97","iso":"317","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"51.522322222222","longitude":"-0.10958611111111"}" data-image-title="Charlotte Organ" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140527_152810-1.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/img_20140527_152810-1.jpg?w=768" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-45823" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_20140527_152810-1.jpg" alt="Charlotte Organ" width="243" height="324" /></a>Charlotte’s another member of the south London massive together with Paul and Mudi. She went to university in Durham (the English one, not the one in NC) where she studied Modern Foreign Languages (mostly French and Arabic). A former resident of Damascus and Cairo, she trailed her spouse down to London in search of work. Mendeley was her first interview four days after she moved, and she started four days after that.</p> <p> </p> <h4>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</h4> <p>I help people who have problems with Mendeley, have found issues or bugs that need fixing, or are finding it all a bit too much. Together with Josh, we are the last line of defence against angry users everywhere (it doesn’t always work, sadly).</p> <h4>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</h4> <p>Helping people who are working on loads of different projects all over the world, from surgeons to people studying fish to medieval historians.</p> <h4>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</h4> <p>Cooking, eating, reading anything that comes near me, finding and observing strange local wildlife (terrapins in the Regent’s canal is the most recent)</p> <p> </p> <h2>Ben A’Lee</h2> <h3>System Administrator</h3> <p><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bma.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="45825" data-permalink="https://blog.mendeley.com/bma/" data-orig-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bma.jpg" data-orig-size="213,320" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="bma" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bma.jpg?w=200" data-large-file="https://blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bma.jpg?w=213" loading="lazy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-45825" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bma.jpg" alt="bma" width="213" height="320" /></a>Ben did a degree in computing and software development at the University of Plymouth. Then when he finished, he wanted to move to London (“Plymouth’s a nice place but not exactly conveniently located,” he said.) Ben applied for a position as a PHP developer but within a couple of months he was increasingly spending his time on sysadmin projects. Follow him @bma</p> <h4>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</h4> <p>I’m working on things that cross over between QA and operations, primarily the monitoring infrastructure but also things related to infrastructure automation, like automatic rollbacks.</p> <h4>What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?</h4> <p>I like the flexibility to work on different things: first PHP, then system administration, and now increasingly Ruby development.</p> <h4>What do you enjoy doing in your free time?</h4> <p>Reading, walking, cooking, plotting the downfall of the capitalist system.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-47949" class="post-47949 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-community-relations category-mendelife"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/03/27/meet-the-mendeley-web-team/" rel="bookmark">Meet the Mendeley Web Team</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://blog.mendeley.com/2014/03/27/meet-the-mendeley-web-team/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2014-03-27T16:37:18+00:00">March 27, 2014</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blog.mendeley.com/author/shrutidesaimendeley/">Shruti Desai</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p dir="ltr">Continuing our series of introducing each of the Mendeley teams, it’s time to meet the Mendeley Web team.</p> <p dir="ltr">At it’s most simplest description, the web team is responsible for the Mendeley website–making sure it functions correctly and allows for the networking and groups collaborations that happen online.</p> <p dir="ltr">But, just as Mendeley is about working collaboratively, the Web team works closely with almost every team at Mendeley, ensuring that important features like the Web Importer, Sync, and Mendeley Discover work correctly. Their overall vision is to use cutting-edge technology to help ease the researcher workflow.</p> <h2>Paul Willoughby</h2> <p><em>Web Team Lead</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><img class="alignleft" alt="bio_photo.jpg" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6wboPtg-6lq_f5lCFN-kpbi1yFpoe6IasBp8NxRst2gvHZ2_1q-kPX1ZAumrxmY3an2KiR-ym7t66MtpCW3Bk9XH9PIbjYWEx7OKOEAnVACDkUPgLW3CondGK3HsaQ" width="214px;" height="228px;" /></p> <p dir="ltr">Paul was born and raised in South London, and started developing websites about 15 years ago. Having had various jobs and freelance projects across the whole web development stack, he now focuses mainly on the front-end stuff.</p> <p dir="ltr">Follow him on Github at <a href="https://github.com/paulwib">github.com/paulwib</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">As web team lead and senior front-end developer I’m normally up to my neck in meetings, JavaScript or meetings about JavaScript.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Favorite part about working at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Working on the next generation of tools for researchers. If I can contribute a little to the vision of the web as an open platform for sharing the worlds knowledge I’ll be very happy. If not, well there’s always the free beer. 🙂</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>What do you like doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Cooking, reading, rummaging around in junk shops, wondering where I’ve put my keys.</p> <h2>Chris Barr</h2> <p><em>Senior Web Developer</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><img class="alignleft" alt="" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/CFi8028mnWlny0WWsc8nYmG-J5Eznb6MoEJx6ajohxcXiHKji2wS7Zq3-akbQ_EDYe-9VyUrUzYYuKL5a9uVKdxP6xlx37fpGujXFx-gYu9S9Xrw8sCC8tSLdRT6Ow" width="242px;" height="242px;" /></p> <p dir="ltr">Chris joined Mendeley in 2012. He graduated with a BSc in Media Technology from Oxford Brookes in 2007. His degree involved a lot of TV programme production, but the exciting challenges were with web development.</p> <p dir="ltr">Follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/chriswbarr">@chriswbarr</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Work on the web team developing the main Mendeley web codebase. Also responsible for web code deployments.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Favorite part about working at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">I get to work with incredibly intelligent people who are passionate about what they do.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>What do you like doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Where to start… I’m an Explorer Scout Leader, so I get to enjoy lots of outdoor activities and camping trips. I love motorsport, photography, cycling, hiking, travelling, hovercraft racing, to name a few!</p> <h2>Mátyás Buczkó</h2> <p><em>Front End Developer</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><img class="alignleft" alt="profile (1).jpg" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/L0wyj6ZlJr6n9QW-7VVvTNP-_uMsIp0T53hinnxOyyYTySiZQ7pQYz7q-13gIvaMQApu6jsiRFqXq-KKTvNTmkagI_5vm878DLux8TMBeJKkyiwhuXE5Xjt-WxOjEQ" width="227px;" height="177px;" /></p> <p dir="ltr">Mátyás describes himself as “a passionate developer with the main focus on asynchronous javascript and how to tame it.” Mátyás moved to London in February to be part of the Mendeley team. Previously he worked in Budapest, Berlin and Santa Clara, “but London is by far the best!” he said.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">I’m involved with all the quirks and wonders of front end development. So if you are using an old version of IE, I will hunt you down!</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Favorite part about working at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">The great team, cutting-edge technologies, challenge and the occasional beer on Fridays of course.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>What do you like doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Travelling and dancing salsa make a perfect combination for my free time. There’s also a lot of hanging out with friends, good movies and some accidental programming on the weekends.</p> <h2>Radu Helstern</h2> <p><em>Back End Developer</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><img class="alignleft" alt="Radu.jpg" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/l5EUHRdSSGKXfqfBpd1MDXYd-inZC_35I0IoOyU5KqDqh3DXhfFcY0DVl348ACGRUXOQh90qms2xgUngDfY6F9E_bn6Qz1GpKAimq_fyKqa20brIMx5WY5i_IKC2GA" width="240px;" height="200px;" /></p> <p dir="ltr">Radu joined Mendeley in March 2014, moving from Sweden in search of a challenge.</p> <p dir="ltr">He was born and raised in Romania and holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">I have an exciting and challenging role to deliver technical solutions that will help realise Mendeley’s vision for transforming research.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Favorite part about working at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Mendeley’s office in London is packed full with very talented, smart, dedicated people. [editor’s note: blush] They create an amazing positive atmosphere which is the perfect ingredient for innovation. Having joined recently, I am really excited to be a part of such an environment and to contribute to the development of a great product.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>What do you like doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">In my free time, I like to escape reality with the help of a good book (mostly sci-fi or alternative history) or improve my general knowledge about life, universe and everything.</p> <h2>Raúl Jiménez</h2> <p><em>Back End Developer</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><img class="alignleft" alt="" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/mjdbXn2-_922n9d2ByX-pI__VDI-dqSVFbJIEzEENu0RhMs7tA5MeTpsWPJb0HNIl88UDuJ5A_n219WFmbZphJ0lwwLjcEAzAQI0y-2doOdQmd7hK0EE02qSOHZfJQ" width="200px;" height="200px;" /></p> <p dir="ltr">After finishing his MSc in Computer Engineering and wandering around Spain in different companies and roles, he decided that was time to see the world abroad, landing surprisingly close to Spain: the occasionally sunny London.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">As a Backend Engineer, I help develop and improve Mendeley’s web products, but I’m always keen and happy to collaborate with other departments.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Favorite part about working at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">The people! Either working side-by-side with enthusiastic, motivated and highly-skilled colleagues, or having a beer with them.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>What do you like doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Unmentionable geek stuff, British humour, playing sports, cooking, learning useless but interesting things, laying under the sun.</p> <h2>Daniel Kendell</h2> <p><em>Web <em>Technical Lead</em></em></p> <p><em><a href="http://static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Daniel-Kendell.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-45693 alignleft" alt="Daniel Kendell" src="https://i0.wp.com/static.blog.mendeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Daniel-Kendell.jpg" width="252px" height="200px" /></a></em></p> <p>I’m a self-taught developer who has worked on a number of different types of projects at various companies all with very different styles of working. I’ve worked in silos, in large teams and small teams. I’ve built frameworks, web services, internal applications and public facing sites. I think this varied experience has given me a pretty well balanced outlook on the art of software development.</p> <p dir="ltr">Follow me on twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/mduk">@mduk</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>How do you describe your role at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">As the technical lead, my primary responsibilities are to look after the overall architecture of the website, and help to hire the best people we can into the team. I also take an active role in helping to design the new generation of web service APIs that will powering Mendeley as we continue to grow and expand.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Favorite part about working at Mendeley?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Working on an interesting project, as part of a hugely multicultural and talented team, right in the heart of London.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>What do you like doing in your free time?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">In my free time you’ll often find me tinkering with various electronic projects or playing with music hardware. I am a keen Thereminist and this year I’ve also taken up the AXiS harmonic table. Still can’t keep time to save my life, but that doesn’t diminish my enjoyment. What am I, a metronome? 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