Fractional CTO
<aside> 👋 I’m Jake! I’m an engineering leader and founder helping startups build great products and teams. I have over a decade of experience building software, half of which I spent at Apple. I'm a hands-on leader who loves to code and build things. I also produce music. Check out my LinkedIn to see my latest clients and get in touch.
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Some of my best startup advice packaged free into easy to digest short articles:
Software Development for Non-technical Founders
Software Project Management for Startups
Hiring Developers for Startups
See more on my blog
Things I’ve been working on myself:
👨👩👦 Grayrock - Co-parenting AI Mediator
🎹 Filtering MIDI Pitch Bend Messages with Arduino
Full-Time CTO Engagement: I modernized and refined existing infrastructure and brought our Reply AI product to market. The system saved our pilot customer 125+ man-hours and generated an additional $100K in revenue within the first 2 months of production. Subsequently, I successfully delivered two new products end-to-end and supported prototype development and customer discovery with numerous prospective enterprise customers in domains ranging from supply chain forecasting to real-time naval threat intelligence.
🐘 Chptr Mobile App Delivery: Remember loved ones lost. The product we built received hundreds of 5 star reviews on the App Store and was voted #1 Product of the Day and #4 Community & Social App of the Year on Product Hunt.
ML-focused Legal SaaS Delivery: Deposition analysis AI for lawyers. I oversaw development of machine learning models and infrastructure in collaboration with Virginia Tech researchers. We created a first-of-its-kind product experience leveraging domain-specific language model features and state-of-the-art information extraction and retrieval techniques for legal document analysis. I hired developers and established core company processes and technical culture.
✈️ Travelaya Web + Mobile Apps Delivery: discount travel subscription service founded by the creator of the EarthPix travel community on Instagram (20M followers). I oversaw development of the first version of the product in collaboration with an existing agency partner.
🌳 Frontline Gig Web App Delivery: Gig staffing for green jobs. I hired the team and managed development of the first version of the product.
🚐 Senior Runs Architecture and fundraising support: Uber for NEMT. I drafted a product specification and architecture proposal for a very complicated build to replace an existing white-label system.
🏔️ Framewrk Organizational assessment and process support: Startup community and consulting platform. I was brought in to assess the engineering culture of their large, distributed team and implement recommendations.