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Ken has more than a decade of industry experience in areas such as data management, open source and geospatial intelligence. Prior to joining Elastic, Melero served as director of federal sales at Socrata, a subsidiary of Tyler Technologies. He also held leadership roles at Pixia, GeoEye Analytics and ImageLinks.