Jeff Fohl is a designer-developer-founder with 12 years of professional experience building user-centric, secure AI and web applications from concept to production. Currently leading Lawful Good, he architected a full-stack GCP platform combining Python backends, TypeScript/React frontends, Vertex AI and ChromaDB to enable attorney workflows with strong privacy and encryption guarantees. Previously he managed UX design and UI engineering at H2O.ai, contributing front-end improvements to the widely used H2O-3 machine learning platform and guiding cross-functional teams to ship component libraries and a coherent design system. He blends deep visual design roots (RISD BFA) with hands-on engineering and product leadership, comfortable both sketching interfaces and deploying cloud infrastructure. Known for the mindset “I don’t know—let’s find out,” he pairs curiosity-driven experimentation with pragmatic delivery and a track record of pilot-tested products for real users.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Illustration, BFA Illustration at Rhode Island School of Design
Physics, Physics at Connecticut College
Oceanography, Oceanography at Sea Education Association
H2O is an Open Source, Distributed, Fast & Scalable Machine Learning Platform: Deep Learning, Gradient Boosting (GBM) & XGBoost, Random Forest, Generalized Linear Modeling (GLM with Elastic Net), K-Means, PCA, Generalized Additive Models (GAM), RuleFit, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Stacked Ensembles, Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML), etc.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:11 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on front-end development within the H2O-3 repository. Their contributions involved significant changes to the `index.html` file, including updating the user interface for quickstart guides. These changes introduced new UI elements like copy buttons and tooltips, improved the overall user experience, and streamlined the documentation. They also removed external dependencies, indicating efforts to optimize the project's front-end codebase.
Contributions:35 pushes, 16 issues in 4 years 1 month
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