Jason Katz-brown is a versatile technology leader and policy-minded engineer with 11 years of experience building high-impact systems for both startups and national campaigns. He helped scale Airbnb as an early engineer, led internationalization and engagement-email efforts, and later built industry-leading polling infrastructure as CTO of Data for Progress. His blend of machine translation research at Google Japan, EMNLP publications, and co-creation of the dominant Scrabble AI Quackle reveals rare depth across NLP, product, and open-source. Comfortable switching hats—from engineering manager and analytics engineer on presidential campaigns to substitute teacher and legislative aide—he pairs technical rigor with an appetite for public service and grassroots impact. Based in Anchorage, Jason brings a track record of rapid, pragmatic solutions (e.g., dbt tooling and BigQuery optimizations) that accelerate teams under pressure.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. + Master of Engineering Natural Language Processing, B.Sc. + Master of Engineering Natural Language Processing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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