Julie Meloni has spent more than 25 years as a builder of technical
things, a builder of teams, and builder of teams who build technical
things. She has worked in web application development since the
beginning of time, took a break in the aughts to teach undergraduate
courses in writing, literature, and digital technology and culture,
and has also written several introductory-level books on PHP, MySQL,
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.  But the best job she ever had was with the
United States Digital Service (USDS) from 2016-2018.  After finishing
up that tour of duty as USDS Director of Product Management &
Strategy/Operations, Julie became Head of Engineering & Applied
Science for the US division of Improbable, a London-based company
building distributed simulation technology for planning, training and
decision support. But the call to help out with government services
was strong, and she rejoined USDS as an engineer in October 2020.