Experience

Lead an eight-person team building production AI systems for enterprise workflows. The work combines closed-circuit LLMs, multi-model orchestration, agents and tool use, MCP, RAG and PageIndex retrieval, self-hosted vLLM inference, and enterprise integrations.

• 300+ live enterprise deployments across seven verticals
• Custom encoding/decoding across 100% of platform data for AI-based lookups, with a governed Context Engine extending that foundation
• Selected team delivery: commercial underwriting reduced submission-to-decision from three days to 15 minutes and recaptured 300+ staff hours per month
• Teach customer teams during every deployment and build ongoing training and internal usage tooling.

As Co-founder & CTO at Encapsa AI, Inc., Jordan leads eight full-time team members: three AI/ML engineers, two full-stack engineers, one UX/UI designer, and two customer-success staff.

Led curriculum and product and served as lead instructor during eight years at an accredited code school.

• Managed up to 25 developers, instructors and support staff, including contract instructors
• Built required instructor/support-staff onboarding grounded in pedagogy and rubrics
• Owned teaching observations, dry runs, a formal cleared-to-teach rubric, instructor hiring, performance reviews and contract renewals
• Built the ongoing portal for instructors and support staff and custom training/visibility applications
• Ran weekly training and review meetings.
• Historical DevCamp/Bottega graduate/career-tracking data validated $50K–$60K starting salaries. These tracked outcomes are not a guarantee for every graduate or a current market salary.

Founded the learning platform and led web/mobile applications, the PaaS learning-management system and quality assurance.

• Acquired by Bottega University in a $5M stock purchase in 2018.

Led 50 IT, software-development and automation staff across 30+ US locations.

• Built IT infrastructure, server architecture, enterprise integrations, EDI and custom applications.

Led web and mobile development for oil-field operations.

• Chevron field-ticketing work in 2013–2014
• Oxy field-ticketing work and a quality-analysis engine that increased ticketing quality by 75%.

Lead developer on cloud enterprise applications connecting employees with payroll and invoicing systems.

• Built data-analysis applications; Oxy field-ticketing work began during this period.

Developed a local yellow-pages platform operating across 250+ US and UK cities.

• Contract work across Asia included geolocation and video applications.

Enterprise delivery alongside the roles above.

• Quip, the oral-care subscription brand, 2015–2017: built the platform from scratch; it scaled to multi-million-dollar revenue.
• Eventbrite, 2014–2015: admin dashboards and Redis-based caching that improved query performance by 90%+.
• Chevron via Trackr, 2013–2014: field-ticketing systems.
• Oxy via Wilson Systems/Trackr, 2011–2014: field-ticketing systems; the quality-analysis engine increased ticketing quality by 75%.
• Yahoo, Fall 2007–Spring 2008: six-month video-player/CDN integration contract.
• Flatiron School: commissioned course author.

Some roles and consulting engagements overlapped; dates reflect the work as held.