Acquisition · 2012–2013
MyHeritage
Global family history and DNA company
Role: Senior Software Engineer (post-acquisition)
Organization
What the company did
MyHeritage is a global family history and DNA company. After acquiring Geni, it continued the genealogy platform while integrating teams, data, and product lines across a much larger international footprint.
Relationship
How I relate to it
I was part of the Geni engineering chapter through the MyHeritage acquisition—continuing platform work as the company and product story shifted under a new parent.
Projects
Work from this chapter
Geni · 2007 – 2013
Geni — one shared family tree for humanity
Building one of the earliest internet-scale social platforms—and the Newsfeed, localization, developer, billing, and messaging systems that enabled it to grow.
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People I worked with
Collaborators from this organization who appear in the People directory.
CTO & Co-Founder, Triangle Health · Former CTO, Bird and Geni
Justin and I built tr8n together at Geni. He was also the brains behind Geni's Tree Positioning System, or TPS, creating custom graph algorithms that could perform lightning-fast searches across the global family tree. Toward the end, we explored combining TPS and tr8n so a path between any two people could become a naturally translated relationship in any language. I am not sure the experiment ever launched after we left, but it connected two of Geni's most sophisticated systems in a fascinating way.
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