Summary
Jeff Maki is a founder and principal consultant with 14 years of experience building public-facing technology that makes people-centered spaces and services more usable and equitable. He blends product strategy, systems architecture, and hands-on software engineering—spanning React and Java Spring Boot to embedded C and protocol reverse-engineering—to deliver practical, scalable solutions for government, mobility, and climate clients. Jeff has led initiatives that reimagined transit advertising, scaled an ML-powered arrival prediction system for New York City’s 2M+ daily riders, and published gigapixel imagery powered by NASA rover technology. He regularly partners with domain experts—engineers, planners, roboticists, and UX researchers—to translate visionary futures into credible roadmaps and funded programs. Based in Philadelphia and operating as Public Works Office, he also supports proposals, cloud migrations, and agile product delivery while renovating an 1875 home in his spare time.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
MISM Information Systems Management, MISM Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy