Jordan Mendler
Technology & Real Estate Entrepreneur | Professor @ UCLA
Teaching & Academic Experience
- Professor of Quantitative Economics, UCLA. 2021 – Present
- Professor of Data Science & Applied Statistics, UCLA. 2017 – Present
- Board of Advisors, Applied Statistics, UCLA, 2017 – Present
- Entrepreneurship Advisor, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech, 2017 – 2018
- Visiting Professor, Computer Science, Sinhgad Institutes, Pune, India, 2017 – 2018
- Visiting Professor, Computer Science, IGEF, Chandigarh, India, 2015 –
2016
- Professor of Cloud Computing & Linux Clusters, UCLA, 2010 – 2013
- Collaborator & Guest Lecturer, Stanford University, 2008 – 2010
Entrepreneurial Experience
- Chairman, JM Entrepreneurial Holdings, 2023 – Present
- Principle & Chief Scientist, km², 2017 – Present
- President & Chief Technology Officer (Co-Founder), The Veloz Group, 2011 – 2023
- Board Member (Founder & Former CTO), Custom Lobby, 2017 – Present
- Founder & Former CTO (Acquired), Beverly Hills Chairs, 2010 – 2023
- Founder & CEO (Acquired), ShipMe, 2018 – 2021
- Board Member (Co-Founder & Former CTO), Veloz Solutions, 2014 – 2023
- Lead Technology Partner (Acquired), Here Media, 2015 – 2016
- Chief Executive Officer (Founder), JDM Enterprises, 2000 – 2005
Professional Experience
- Board Member (Former Project Lead), Flyspray, 2012 – 2017
- Technology Director, Virtual Reality, Virtually Israel, 2015 – 2016
- Lead Systems Architect & Software Engineer, UCLA Human Genetics, 2006 – 2010
- Systems Administrator, UCLA School of Medicine, 2006 – 2007
- Software Engineer (Pre-IPO), CyberU / Cornerstone OnDemand, 2010
- Chief Technology Officer, TinyTube Networks, 2007 – 2009
- Network Administrator, Bridges Academy, 1999 – 2002
- Network Administration & Tech Support, LA Free-Net, 1998 – 2001
Select Consulting Experience
- Performance Place Sports Care & Chiropractic (Healthcare, SaaS)
- Power of Zero (Insurance, LMS, SaaS)
- The Taylor Method (Insurance, ERP, LMS, SaaS)
- UCLA Laboratory of Neuroimaging (DevOps)
- PowCloud (Search Engines, SaaS)
- Cedars-Sinai (Big Data, Healthcare, Research)
- University of Southern California (Big Data, Research)
- House Ear Institute (DevOps, Big Data, Research)
- City of Hope (DevOps, Big Data, Research)
Select Real Estate Experience
- Lancaster Auto Row
- Big Box Conversion, Ventura
- Anchor Retail, Rosamond
- Retail, Calipatria
- Palmdale Central Storage
- Loft Conversions, San Pedro
- Office Rehab, San Bernadino
- Loft Conversions, DTLA
- Container City
- Briarmont Estates
Research Experience
- Lead Software Developer, SeqWare / SolexaTools, UCLA, 2007 – 2010
- Lead Software Engineer, Biopackages.net, UCLA, 2006 – 2008
- Facilitator, Self-Management And Recovery Training, 2004 – 2006
- Research Assistant / Data Analysis Intern, UCLA Laboratory of Molecular Neuroimaging, 2005
- Co-Leader (Clinical Research), Matrix Institute, 2003 – 2005
- Clinical Research Intern, VA Medical Center, 2004
Education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Master's Degree*, Computer Science, Data Mining, Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture
- * Dropped out with 1 quarter remaining to start a few technology
companies
- Bachelor's Degree, Physiological Psych, Neurosciences, Psychopharmacology
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Long Beach City College
- Metal Fabrication, Blacksmithing, Tinsmithing, Metal Forming
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Los Angeles Trade Technical College
- Motorcycle Repair Technology
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Cerritos College
- Autobody Repair, Customization & Restoration
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Venice Beach Community Machine Shop
- Metal Fabrication, Conventional & CNC Machining
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Los Angeles Pierce College
- Automotive Repair, Engine & Transmission Rebuilding
Publications, Whitepapers, and Acknowledgements
- BFAST: an alignment tool for large scale genome resequencing
- Bfast: Blat-like fast accurate search tool
- Biopackages.net: Bioinformatics Libraries, Applications, and Data as Operating System Packages
- Celsius: a community resource for Affymetrix microarray data
- Disease gene characterization through large-scale co-expression analysis
- Local alignment of generalized k-base encoded DNA sequence
- Local alignment of two-base encoded DNA sequence
- Movie Recommendation Engine Using Collaborative Methods
- SeqWare Query Engine: storing and searching sequence data in the cloud
- U87MG decoded: the genomic sequence of a cytogenetically aberrant human cancer cell
- UCLA Team Sequences Cell Line, Puts Open Source Software Framework into Production
- White Paper: Automated Parking System (IoT)
- White Paper: Beverly Hills Chairs
- White Paper: Buyerstime
- White Paper: Custom Tobacco
- White Paper: Flyspray
- White Paper: Live Earth
- White Paper: Opencart
- White Paper: Robotic Agriculture Harvester (IoT)
- White Paper: Smart Irrigation System (IoT)
- White Paper: Smart Railroad Crossing (IoT)
- White Paper: The Taylor Method
- White Paper: Virtually Israel
Patents
- Devices, systems, and methods for monitoring, classifying, and encouraging activity
Select Open-Source Projects & Contributions
- Biopackages
- Celsius
- Debian Linux
- Flyspray
- FreeBSD
- GlusterFS
- Kiwi Spider
- Lustre
- Marketplace Booster
- Pegasus
- Rocks
- SVG-edit
- SeqWare
- SolexaTools
- Staden IO Lib Utils
- Sun Grid Engine
Select Technologies
- Software Development
- C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Bash Shell, MIPS Assembly
- Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML, JSON
- SQL, NoSQL
- Operating Systems
- Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Gentoo
- FreeBSD, Solaris, IRIX
- Virtualization, Jails/Containers
- Clustering/High Availability
- Sun Grid Engine, ROCKS, Globus, Pegasus, Linux-HA/Heartbeat, Hadoop, Spark
- Web Stack
- Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, Streaming & Transcoding Services, Solr (search), Heritrix & Nutch (crawlers)
- Databases
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, SimpleDB, HBase, MongoDB, Galera MySQL Clusters
- Storage Clusters
- Lustre, MogileFS, HDFS, GlusterFS, large-Scale ZFS, large-scale NFS, Samba, mdadm, LVM, Legato Networker
- Automation/Provisioning
- Puppet, Perceus, Kickstart, TFTP/Netboot, Custom Deb, RPM & Yum repositories, AWS Scripting
- Infrastructure
- Dhcpd, Bind DNS, Sendmail, Postfix, MailEnable
- Monitoring/Logging/Security
- Cacti, Ganglia, Big Brother, AWStats, Syslog, Spreadlogd, IPTables, AIDE, Fail2Ban, Pentesting
- Frameworks & Paradigms
- Laravel, Yii, CodeIgnitor, OpenCart, Magento, ASP.NET MVC2, Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Amazon AWS, and Datacenter Automation, Model-View
Controller (MVC), Object-Oriented Design (OOP), Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)
- Misc
- Deb & RPM development, Make, Ant, Git, Subversion, CVS
Select Volunteer Experience
- Home Builder, Habitat for Humanity
- UCLA, Science & Medicine
- Chabad of the valley
- Misc Vocational Schools & Community Colleges
- Misc Mental Health Clinics & Drug Rehab Programs