Summary
Technical education leader who builds production AI systems. Eight years as CTO and lead instructor at Bottega University, with ownership of instructor onboarding, observations, dry runs, a cleared-to-teach rubric, hiring, performance reviews and contract renewals. Currently Co-founder & CTO at Encapsa, leading eight full-time staff across a platform with 300+ enterprise deployments.
Currently exploring full-time roles in developer education, forward deployed engineering and AI leadership; relocating anywhere.
Core competencies
- Languages and application development
- Rust/Axum · Ruby on Rails · Node · React/TypeScript/Next.js · Python · PHP (earlier-career experience)
- AI systems
- agents · tool use · MCP · multi-model orchestration · RAG · PageIndex · Milvus · BGE-M3 and Qwen3 embeddings · self-hosted vLLM
- Data and infrastructure
- PostgreSQL · Redis · Temporal · RunPod · Fly.io · AWS · Supabase
- Mobile
- Expo/React Native
- Daily coding agents
- Claude Code CLI · Codex CLI · custom Goose harness · Mistral
Experience
Some roles and consulting engagements overlapped; dates reflect the work as held.
Co-founder & CTO
Jul 2024–Present
Encapsa - Enterprise AI Platform
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.
Chief Technology Officer & Lead Technical Instructor
Oct 2016–Jul 2024
Bottega University
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.
Founder & CTO
Apr 2016–Jul 2024
DevCamp Platform
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.
Director of IT
Apr 2014–Apr 2016
Dixie Electric, LLC
Led 50 IT, software-development and automation staff across 30+ US locations.
- Built IT infrastructure, server architecture, enterprise integrations, EDI and custom applications.
VP of Engineering
Jan 2012–Apr 2014
Trackr, LLC
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%.
Senior Software Engineer
Jul 2011–Jan 2012
Wilson Systems
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.
PHP Developer
Jan 2007–Jul 2011
CitySpur
Developed a local yellow-pages platform operating across 250+ US and UK cities.
- Contract work across Asia included geolocation and video applications.
Independent Software Consultant
Mar 2007–Jul 2017
Independent Consulting Practice · Concurrent
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.
Publications & teaching
Three Packt books, one co-authored, and The Freelancer Manifesto (self-published). Curricula used by 250,000+ learners across platforms and schools. Udemy: 16 courses, 111,045 students and a 4.5 instructor rating.
Across combined DevCamp/Bottega and Udemy work, Jordan taught several thousand engineers live, with cohorts ranging from roughly a dozen to hundreds. This is combined live instruction, not self-paced enrollment or a Bottega-only figure.
- Comprehensive Ruby Programming
Packt, 2017 · Author
- The TypeScript Workshop
Packt, 2021 · Co-authored
- Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career
Packt, 2017 · Author
- The Freelancer Manifesto
Self-published on Leanpub · Author
Education
M.S. Software Engineering
Texas Tech University · 2018
B.S. Computer Science
University of Arkansas Grantham · 2013