Summary
Jeff Hampton is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 14 years of experience building scalable software and high-performing teams across gaming, media, and enterprise SaaS. As Co-Founder of ChainBuilder.ai he leads tech, strategy, and sales to deliver AI-driven workspaces for the energy sector, drawing on prior engineering and management roles at Roblox, PlayStation, and Apollo GraphQL. He combines hands-on architecture and solutions engineering with product-focused leadership, having shipped developer-facing tools and enterprise integrations at companies serving millions of users. Jeff also channels entrepreneurial energy into community-facing ventures like The 5th Street Market & Nursery and a stealth AI startup focused on mental health and education scaling challenges. Based in Virginia Beach, he balances a technical career with creative pursuits—musician and vocal-performance background—bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to problem solving. Colleagues describe him as practical, people-oriented, and unafraid to tackle complex, cross-domain systems where AI meets real-world operations.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Engineer / Vocal Performance Opera, Computer Science Engineer / Vocal Performance Opera at The University of Texas at Arlington