Jake Downie
Head Of AI at Bland
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Downie is a Head of AI based in San Francisco with three years of hands-on experience building production ML systems and developer-facing AI products. He rose rapidly from software engineer roles at startups—where he engineered embedding-driven semantic search, autonomous research agents, and workflow generation ML architectures—to senior AI leadership at Bland. His background blends systems engineering, cloud architecture and full-stack development from co-founding an eDiscovery startup to deploying complex AWS and containerized solutions. Early research in quantum photonics and a history of Salesforce and enterprise automation work give him unusual fluency across experimental research, regulated finance systems, and scalable product engineering. Jake is comfortable moving ideas from PCB and detector-level prototypes to cloud-hosted APIs and user-facing applications, and he brings founder-level ownership to AI strategy and execution.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, magna cum laude, Honors Program, BS, magna cum laude, Honors Program at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (94)
api-client10
authentication10
integrations10
hubspot10
api10
recurly10
gmail-api10
netsuite10
integrate10
access-token10
pytorch10
authentication-middleware10
stable-diffusion10
refresh-token10
oauth10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jwd-dev/nango
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
A single API for all your integrations.
Contributions:4 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
jwd-dev/rift
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
Rift: an AI-native language server for your personal AI software engineer
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 8 days
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