About

I'm Jarrett Meyer, an Advisor in Machine Learning Engineering at Eli Lilly, where I've spent the last 8 years working at the intersection of data, infrastructure, and the decisions they inform. Before that, I spent seventeen years building enterprise software. I've been writing code professionally since 2001.

The Long Version

In college, it was Sun Workstations, ANSI C 90, and Fortran 77. Back then, you had to sign out computers by the hour.

I started my enterprise career with .NET and C#. Application development, solutions architecture, business intelligence. Domain-driven design. Clean code. Agile. Test-driven development became a thing. SQL Server was the center of gravity. DBAs were gods among us mere mortals. It was a different time.

We all migrated to the web. First with WebForms, and then with MVC and C# templates. Dapper. LINQ to SQL. Entity Framework.

All software problems are about getting the right data to the right people in the right format.

In 2018 I joined Eli Lilly's Decision Analytics and Optimization team. I started with data visualizations. D3.js. Spotfire. Translating complex datasets into something a human can reason about. That led into machine learning engineering, and now AI and ML strategy.

The throughline across all of it: finding the right tool for the problem at hand.

Outside of Work

Husband and father. Voracious reader. Caffeine enthusiast. Bourbon enjoyer.

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