Jeff Schomay
Senior Staff AI Engineer at Mechanical Orchard
Sarasota, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Schomay is a Senior Staff AI Engineer with 11 years of software engineering experience who blends applied AI expertise with a creative background in games and narrative design. He leads R&D efforts at Mechanical Orchard building advanced agent systems and RAG pipelines to modernize and comprehend legacy mainframe code, work that directly supports large enterprise deals and product roadmaps. Previously he helped prototype generative narrative engines and tooling for games as Interim CTO at Oneirocom and drove AI-enabled modernization efforts that contributed to a $24M Series A. Comfortable across full stacks and Elixir-based distributed systems, he combines production-grade engineering with research-driven procedural narrative techniques. Based in Sarasota, FL, he pairs a film-production BFA sensibility with formal study in generative LLMs—an uncommon mix that informs human-centered AI for immersive experiences and complex legacy migration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Course Certificate Generative AI with Large Language Models, Course Certificate Generative AI with Large Language Models at CourseraBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Film Studies and Production, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Film Studies and Production at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (91)
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
tabletop10
elm10
checker10
paginator10
javascript-game9
behavior-tree9
vim-plugin9
linter9
vim9
linting9
language-server9
tilemap9
elm-test9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jschomay/phaser-demo-game
Nov 2014 - Oct 2019
Demo game for phaser.js tutorial
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push in 5 years
tilemapjavascriptjavascript-gamephasertabletop
jschomay/subway-game
Aug 2017 - May 2023
A narrative adventure following an underappreciated insurance agent who falls into a subterranean labyrinth when his subway commute goes awry.
Contributions:15 PRs, 206 pushes, 12 branches in 5 years 9 months
labyrinthelm-narrative-enginetwinecrosswordgame
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