Jesse Roland
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at AKASA
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Roland is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building practical, production-ready AI systems and research prototypes. He has led applied research and engineering at Thomson Reuters—bringing generative AI into legal and tax products like Cocounsel and Checkpoint—and transitioned from research roles at SIFT where he worked on DARPA-backed projects in influence campaigns and human-network evaluation. Based in Saint Paul, he combines systems-level engineering (Linux administration and software engineering early in his career) with ML research rigor to move models from prototype to deployed product. Known for making "data good looking and useful," he blends applied ML, sensemaking, and product-focused delivery across regulated domains.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
Github Skills (92)
security-hardening10
security-automation10
security10
chat10
vulnerability-detection10
cpp10
collaboration10
javascript10
infosec10
cybersecurity10
information-security10
pci-dss10
204810
log-analysis10
slack10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wordstodata/words-to-data
Mar 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 months
Scronkfinkle/content
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Security compliance content in SCAP, Bash, Ansible, and other formats
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
pci-dsssecurity-automationsecurityansiblebash
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