Jake Detels
Founder at TouchCommerce, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJake Detels is a founder and technology leader who blends 7 years of nonprofit fundraising experience with 12 years building enterprise automation, analytics, and digital engagement platforms for Fortune 100 clients. He led large distributed engineering teams and product strategy through Nuance’s $19.7B acquisition by Microsoft, and previously developed a flagship JavaScript automation framework at TouchCommerce that endured beyond the company’s acquisition. With an MBA and hands-on fundraising roots, he founded Donor Facts to bring AI-driven prospect research and analytics to nonprofit fundraising, delivering deeper insights far faster than manual methods. Jake’s career sits at the intersection of mission-driven fundraising and scalable enterprise tech, and he’s unusually fluent at translating donor-facing problems into production-grade AI and automation solutions. Based in Portland, he combines operational rigor from crisis response and continuous improvement programs with a founder’s drive to modernize philanthropy.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Arts - BA, Theatre, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Theatre at Seattle Pacific UniversityCertificate in Organizational Leadership, Certificate in Organizational Leadership at Biola UniversityBusiness, Business at Pasadena City College
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Github Skills (99)
compilation10
javascript9
pipeline9
emberjs9
dall-e9
asset-pipeline9
chatbot8
knowledge-graph8
browser8
whisper8
web-development8
embedding8
huggingface8
ember8
llamacpp8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jakedetels/frame-messenger
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
javascriptbrowser
jakedetels/modelfusion
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
The TypeScript library for building AI applications.
Contributions:20 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
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