John DeSanto

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I am an experienced ontologist and software developer specializing in search technology, natural language processing, and information retrieval. Before joining the business world I studied graduate level mathematics and philosophy for a number of years. During that time I also taught extensively, both at the college level and privately.
More on my professional experience can be found here
Here is a brief summary of my professional experience.
01.2024 - Present Software Developer / Ontologist — Hyperthesis
03.2020 - 11.2023 Principal Engineer — Oracle
07.2011 - Present Ontologist (Consulting) — Aevea Consulting
11.2018 - 01.2020 Staff Engineer — Medium
04.2016 - 09.2018 Principal Developer, Foundation — Evengx / TrustPipe
04.2011 - 03.2015 Staff Software Engineer, Architecture — Vungle
04.2011 - 03.2015 Software Architect — AdPredictive
01.2010 - 04.2011 Senior Software Engineer — Peerpong
07.2007 - 07.2008 Senior Ontologist — NASA
08.2004 - 10.2006 Director of R&D — Kozoru
10.2002 - 07.2004 Ontologist — Unicru / Guru
12.2001 - 07.2002 Knowledge Architect — Kanisa
09.1998 - 03.2001 Ontologist; Program Manager — Cycorp

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(last updated January 2025)