Jessica is a solutions architect at Elastic. As an SA, she works with all of Elastic's solutions but has a special fondness for search and artificial intelligence. Before Elastic, she worked as an ontologist and software developer on applications geared toward bringing common sense to AI. Jessica holds a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University with a concentration in computational linguistics. She lives in Austin, TX, with her husband, two children, a dog named Nibbler, and a mischief of pet rats named Chaos, Disarray, and Catastrophe.