Jake Obron is a seasoned software leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building full-stack JavaScript systems and production-grade tooling for autonomy and ADAS. He has led engineering teams at Ford to replace costly third-party visualization vendors with an in-house platform used daily by 300+ engineers and deployed to millions of vehicles, yielding multi-million dollar savings and major productivity gains. Prior roles at Cruise and elsewhere show deep experience designing 2D/3D point-cloud labeling and visualization tools (React, Redux, Three.js) that materially improved ML dataset quality and reduced labeling costs, including a patented automation for data curation. Jake blends HCI-informed product sensibility from a University of Michigan Informatics background with hands-on optimization that has saved analysts hundreds of workdays per year, and he’s comfortable presenting technical strategy to executives and investors. Now back in his hometown of Troy, MI, he continues to scale ML-focused tooling and visualization platforms that make complex, dynamic systems more observable and actionable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Informatics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Informatics at University of Michigan
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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