Jake Neely
Senior Vice President, Technology & Data Science
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJake Neely is a senior technology leader with 11 years of experience building production AI and NLP systems, currently serving as Senior Vice President, Technology & Data Science at Special Olympics. He blends deep technical expertise in probabilistic modeling, Bayesian methods, and language understanding with customer-centered productization developed during leadership roles at Forge.AI and as a founding scientist at Gamalon. Jake has led NLP teams to deploy high-precision extraction, NLU/NLG frameworks, and domain-specialized language models that power real-time semantic data feeds. He pairs hands-on research (including contributions to probabilistic programming, inference algorithms, and several patents) with strategic product and go-to-market work alongside executive teams. Based in Washington, D.C., he draws on an analytical foundation in astrophysics and mathematics from Swarthmore to tackle complex modeling and data problems. Less obvious: he focuses not just on algorithmic novelty but on empathetic design that makes advanced AI genuinely useful for end users.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Astrophysics and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Astrophysics and Mathematics at Swarthmore College
Github Skills (1)
probabilistic-programming4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gamalon/chimple2
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Open source easy-to-use probabilistic programming package.
Contributions:15 commits in 2 months
probabilistic-programming
jneely1/restaurants
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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