On building this
A short note on why I built a website now, after five years of not having one.
Johnny Saldana
Backend & ML systems engineer. Founding engineer at RocketReach — contact-data infrastructure, email verification at scale, applied LLM/embedding pipelines. Currently in Manhattan; relocating to Stanford in September.
Recent writing
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RocketReach
Owner of the credit-accounting subsystem (core revenue logic). Built and rebuilt the email verification stack, contact-data normalization pipelines, and the analytics warehouse. Production scale: hundreds of millions of records, multi-billion-row tables.
Tenure 5y+
Stack PYTHON · DJANGO · POSTGRES · REDSHIFT · AWS
Founder, Quantitative Finance Society
Johns Hopkins University
Founded JHU’s undergrad quant-finance society. Built systematic trading curriculum and ran a live $30K paper-trading book. WorldQuant Brain semi-finalist team.
AUM $30K
Result WORLDQUANT SEMI-FINALIST
Currently
Now →Reading Deep Learning (Goodfellow), grinding ML systems theory, and shipping a public-artifacts series on backend infrastructure I’ve built at RocketReach. Open to conversations about ML/systems hybrid roles in the Bay Area starting fall.