Summary
Jake Moghtader is a founding ML engineer and product-focused AI leader with 11 years of engineering experience and a 9+ year specialty in machine learning and big data. He has led teams and technical strategy across startups and scale-ups—from directing ML groups at Taboola that served 1.4B monthly users to co-founding EQ Fitness where he built wearable-free, personalized fitness ML systems. At Zapier he combined product and engineering leadership to ship Canvas, a visual workflow automation product, and now architects ML products at Runlayer. Jake excels at cross-team integration, turning research-grade models into reliable, user-facing systems, and he pairs entrepreneurial drive with hands-on full-stack development (including a consumer surf app he built and launched). Based in Los Angeles, he brings a pragmatic focus on customer delight and measurable impact across health, content discovery, and automation domains.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles