{"profile":{"name":"Jordan Kail","title":"Staff Software Engineer","summary":"Staff Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience and deep expertise in AI agents, agent platforms, and distributed data systems. At Together AI, established the data engineering team and then created the Agent Platform team, building agent harnesses, an internal agents factory, and tracing, replay, and evaluation infrastructure. Previously built AI/ML classifiers at Meta and agent-based model governance at Prove Identity.","location":"San Francisco, CA","url":"https://www.jckail.com","github":"https://github.com/jckail","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jckail/"},"experience":[{"id":"together_ai","company":"Together AI","title":"Staff Software Engineer, Agent Platform","date":"02/2025 - Present","location":"San Francisco, CA","highlights":["Created the Agent Platform team after establishing data engineering; built agent harnesses and an internal agents factory for production workflows.","Build tracing, replay, and evaluation harnesses to measure agent behavior and regression-test releases.","Build and operate agents for infrastructure, finance, and internal workflows, improving on-call response and infrastructure maintenance.","Established and scaled data engineering from one engineer to 15+, setting technical direction for Together's AI cloud.","Build pipelines, storage, and telemetry for inference and training workloads to inform product, reliability, and capacity decisions.","Contributed to multiple patent-pending innovations in agent systems."],"url":"https://www.together.ai/","technologies":["python","sql","go","typescript","kubernetes","pytorch","agent-platforms","agent-harnesses","llm-evaluation"]},{"id":"prove","company":"Prove Identity","title":"Staff Software Engineer","date":"06/2023 - 01/2025","location":"Denver, CO","highlights":["Built agent frameworks and harnesses for statistical model governance in identity verification and fraud resolution.","Built RAG chatbots with Airflow, LangChain, and OpenAI, automating 150+ hours of manual work per week.","Led the company-wide migration from Java/Oracle to Go/PostgreSQL, cutting API response times from 40s to 12ms and operating costs by 95%.","Moved 1,200+ batch jobs to real-time Go, Kafka, and Flink pipelines, reducing data latency from days to seconds."],"url":"https://www.prove.com/","technologies":["python","sql","go","javascript","typescript","java","aws","model-governance","rag"]},{"id":"sabbatical","company":"Sabbatical","title":"Digital nomad experiment","date":"10/2022 - 05/2023","location":"","highlights":["Made up for lost time during COVID-19 by road-tripping across the USA and Europe.","Moved back to Colorado to tend to family."],"url":"","technologies":[]},{"id":"meta","company":"Meta | Facebook","title":"Senior Data Engineer","date":"01/2021 - 09/2022","location":"Menlo Park, CA","highlights":["Built AI/ML classifiers and 100+ NLP and computer vision pipelines with Airflow, Spark, and PyTorch, supporting ad targeting and personalized notifications for billions of users.","Partnered with Messenger, Groups, and an early precursor to the Llama project to fine-tune models for automated group management.","Led 10+ engineers on data systems for Facebook Public Groups, Community Chats, and cross-platform initiatives.","Built a framework generating thousands of asynchronous Spark pipelines, improving compute efficiency by 66%.","Redesigned petabyte-scale data models, cutting storage costs by 25%."],"url":"https://about.fb.com/","technologies":["python","sql","javascript","typescript","php","scala","ai-classifiers","pytorch"]},{"id":"deloitte","company":"Deloitte","title":"Consultant - AI & Advanced Analytics","date":"12/2018 - 12/2020","location":"Atlanta, GA + Menlo Park, CA","highlights":["Automated approximately 31% of manually processed healthcare claims with transformer models, saving 250,000+ hours annually.","Optimized exabyte-scale video reliability metrics, cutting daily processing time by 90% while expanding coverage.","Led 20+ consultants delivering AI and analytics systems for Fortune 50 clients."],"url":"https://www2.deloitte.com/ch/en/pages/strategy-operations/solutions/analytics-and-cognitive.html","technologies":["python","sql","javascript","typescript","php","rust","aws","gcp"]},{"id":"wide_open_west","company":"Wide Open West","title":"Senior Data Engineer","date":"11/2017 - 12/2018","location":"Denver, CO","highlights":["Built classification and churn models that increased customer package upgrades by 22% year over year.","Led 5 data practitioners delivering BI and analytics to sales, product, and engineering teams."],"url":"https://www.wowway.com/","technologies":["python","sql","javascript","aws"]},{"id":"common_spirit_health","company":"Common Spirit Health","title":"Data Engineer","date":"09/2016 - 11/2017","location":"Denver, CO","highlights":["Built REST APIs and data lakes, reducing processing time for partner data products from 7 days to 5 minutes.","Built Python and SQL forecasting pipelines for hospital procedures, billing, and staffing; cut billing turnaround from 14 to 7 days."],"url":"https://www.commonspirit.org/","technologies":["python","sql","javascript","java","azure"]},{"id":"acustream","company":"AcuStream | R1","title":"Software Engineer - Data","date":"04/2013 - 09/2016","location":"Boulder, CO","highlights":["Built a rules-based and ML invoicing system supporting $300M+ in annual revenue.","Replaced SFTP transfers with real-time Flask and Kafka APIs, cutting data delivery time by 50%."],"url":"https://www.r1rcm.com/","technologies":["python","sql","javascript","java","aws"]}],"projects":[{"id":"ai_billing","title":"AI Billing System","description":"A proof-of-concept application for tracking and billing AI chat thread interactions with real-time cost metrics and analytics.","url":"https://github.com/jckail/ai_chat_billing_app","technologies":["Python","FastAPI","React","Pydantic","SQLAlchemy","SQLite","Kafka","Redis","Streamlit","Docker"]},{"id":"super_teacher","title":"Super Teacher","description":"A classroom copilot that answers 'who needs me today, and why?' with a ranked needs-attention list, a gradebook, attendance, and a streaming Claude assistant grounded in the class data.","url":"https://github.com/jckail/superteacher","technologies":["Python","FastAPI","Pydantic","SQLAlchemy","SQLite","Alembic","React","TypeScript","Anthropic Claude","Docker","GCP"]},{"id":"qr_for_groups","title":"Join Group via QR","description":"Featured on TechCrunch - Won internal hackathon and created the ability for Facebook group admins to invite users to their groups by generating a QR Code. Used by millions daily.","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/09/facebook-rolls-out-new-tools-for-group-admins-to-manage-their-communities-and-reduce-misinformation/","technologies":[]},{"id":"jobbr","title":"Jobbr","description":"An AI-assisted job-search prototype that parses tech-company postings into structured data and matches them to resumes, using Python, LangChain, FastAPI and OpenAI.","url":"https://github.com/jckail/Jobbr","technologies":["Python","FastAPI","LangChain","OpenAI","Web Scraping"]},{"id":"portfolio","title":"Portfolio Website","description":"A fully custom-built portfolio site showcasing my skills and work. Made with FastAPI and React, hosted on GCP via CloudRun.","url":"https://github.com/jckail/portfolio","technologies":["TypeScript","React","Vite","Python","FastAPI","Pydantic","Docker","GCP Cloud Run","Terraform","Supabase","Anthropic Claude"]},{"id":"pointup","title":"PointUp","description":"Track airline miles, hotel points, and credit card rewards in one place. A TypeScript monorepo with a Next.js web app, PostgreSQL, Clerk accounts, and an AWS Bedrock Claude assistant.","url":"https://github.com/jckail/point_bot","technologies":["TypeScript","Next.js","React","Tailwind CSS","PostgreSQL","Drizzle ORM","Clerk","AWS Bedrock","AWS CDK","Vitest"]},{"id":"lit_crypto","title":"Algo Crypto","description":"Trading algorithm via scraped crypto, NASDAQ, and CPME rare minerals data. Made with Flask, Pandas, AWS, and SageMaker.","url":"https://github.com/jckail/crypto_trader","technologies":["Python","Flask","Pandas","AWS","SageMaker"]},{"id":"go_pilot","title":"goPilot","description":"Agentic AI developer assistant and cli tool to help debug, develop, and compile apps written in GO. Built using python and go leveraging OpenAI assistants api.","url":"https://github.com/jckail/goPilot","technologies":["Python","Go","OpenAI API","CLI"]},{"id":"data_playground","title":"Data Playground","description":"An interactive data-engineering lab for pipeline DAGs, data models, SQL analytics, graphs, and vector similarity.","url":"https://github.com/jckail/data_playground","technologies":["Python","SQL","SQLite","FastAPI","Pydantic","React","TypeScript","Docker"]}],"education":[{"institution":"University of Colorado Boulder","study":"Computer Science","date":"08/2011 - 03/2013"}],"skillGroups":[{"name":"AI & Agent Engineering","items":["Agent runtimes & harnesses","Multi-agent orchestration","Tool execution & MCP","Context & memory","Agent/LLM evaluation","Tracing & replay","RAG"]},{"name":"Software Engineering","items":["Python","SQL","Go","Rust","TypeScript","API & SDK design","Distributed systems"]},{"name":"Agent Tools & Frameworks","items":["Claude Code","Codex","Cursor","Pi","LangChain","Custom agent frameworks"]},{"name":"Knowledge & Graph Systems","items":["Graphify","Knowledge graphs","Graph traversal","Neo4j","PostgreSQL","SQLite","Vector search"]},{"name":"Cloud & Platform","items":["Kubernetes","Docker","Linux","AWS","Google Cloud","Terraform","OpenTelemetry","Prometheus"]},{"name":"Data Infrastructure","items":["Kafka","Flink","Spark","Airflow","dbt","Iceberg","Snowflake","Databricks","BigQuery"]}],"sources":{"website":"https://www.jckail.com","resume":"https://www.jckail.com/resume.json","context":"https://www.jckail.com/context.json","mcp":"https://www.jckail.com/mcp","graphql":"https://www.jckail.com/graphql"}}