Summary
Jack Alves is a seasoned software leader and product strategist with 15 years of experience building web and data-driven products, currently leading AI-enabled product work from Milwaukee as "Head of Everything." He blends hands-on engineering—React, Python prototypes, and custom tooling—with product vision, having led teams at startups and enterprises (Metaweb/Applied Minds) to launch novel web-scale systems like Freebase. Jack has repeatedly turned ambiguous problems into shipped products, from consumer email apps and compliance software to real estate analytics and profitable property redevelopments. He pairs technical depth in prototyping and automation with pragmatic project leadership—managing multi-disciplinary teams, pivots, and high-stakes client delivery. Unusually, he couples engineering with real-world market instincts: he wrote bespoke software to surface neighborhood-level real estate insights and even underwrote renovation decisions while running his own brokerage. Jack is building an AI-driven React app that leverages recent advances to make a long-held product idea finally possible.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at New York University