# Jordan Kail

> Staff Software Engineer, Agent Platform at Together AI. Staff Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience and deep expertise in AI agents, agent platforms, and distributed data systems. At Together AI, established the data engineering team and then created the Agent Platform team, building agent harnesses, an internal agents factory, and tracing, replay, and evaluation infrastructure. Previously built AI/ML classifiers at Meta and agent-based model governance at Prove Identity.

Based in San Francisco, CA, United States. This file is generated from the same data as the website; the site is a single-page app, so use these plain-text and JSON renditions instead of scraping it.

## Start here

- [Full portfolio as text](https://www.jckail.com/llms-full.txt): experience, projects and every skill in one document
- [Resume as JSON Resume](https://www.jckail.com/resume.json): structured work history, skills and projects
- [Resume as PDF](https://www.jckail.com/api/resume): the downloadable resume
- [Portfolio website](https://www.jckail.com/): the interactive site

## Agent interfaces

- [Public context (JSON)](https://www.jckail.com/context.json): profile, experience, projects, education and curated skills; no authentication required
- [MCP endpoint](https://www.jckail.com/mcp): read-only Model Context Protocol over Streamable HTTP; initialize a client, then list tools and resources
- [GraphQL endpoint](https://www.jckail.com/graphql): read-only queries over the same public context; schema introspection supported

## Experience

- [Together AI](https://www.together.ai/): Staff Software Engineer, Agent Platform, 02/2025 - Present, San Francisco, CA
- [Prove Identity](https://www.prove.com/): Staff Software Engineer, 06/2023 - 01/2025, Denver, CO
- Sabbatical: Digital nomad experiment, 10/2022 - 05/2023, Location independent
- [Meta | Facebook](https://about.fb.com/): Senior Data Engineer, 01/2021 - 09/2022, Menlo Park, CA
- [Deloitte](https://www2.deloitte.com/ch/en/pages/strategy-operations/solutions/analytics-and-cognitive.html): Consultant - AI & Advanced Analytics, 12/2018 - 12/2020, Atlanta, GA + Menlo Park, CA
- [Wide Open West](https://www.wowway.com/): Senior Data Engineer, 11/2017 - 12/2018, Denver, CO
- [Common Spirit Health](https://www.commonspirit.org/): Data Engineer, 09/2016 - 11/2017, Denver, CO
- [AcuStream | R1](https://www.r1rcm.com/): Software Engineer - Data, 04/2013 - 09/2016, Boulder, CO

## Projects

- [AI Billing System](https://github.com/jckail/ai_chat_billing_app): A proof-of-concept application for tracking and billing AI chat thread interactions with real-time cost metrics and analytics.
- [Super Teacher](https://github.com/jckail/superteacher): A classroom copilot that answers 'who needs me today, and why?' with a ranked needs-attention list, a gradebook, attendance, and a streaming Claude assistant grounded in the class data.
- [Join Group via QR](https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/09/facebook-rolls-out-new-tools-for-group-admins-to-manage-their-communities-and-reduce-misinformation/): Featured on TechCrunch - Won internal hackathon and created the ability for Facebook group admins to invite users to their groups by generating a QR Code. Used by millions daily.
- [Jobbr](https://github.com/jckail/Jobbr): An AI-assisted job-search prototype that parses tech-company postings into structured data and matches them to resumes, using Python, LangChain, FastAPI and OpenAI.
- [Portfolio Website](https://github.com/jckail/portfolio): A fully custom-built portfolio site showcasing my skills and work. Made with FastAPI and React, hosted on GCP via CloudRun.
- [PointUp](https://github.com/jckail/point_bot): Track airline miles, hotel points, and credit card rewards in one place. A TypeScript monorepo with a Next.js web app, PostgreSQL, Clerk accounts, and an AWS Bedrock Claude assistant.
- [Algo Crypto](https://github.com/jckail/crypto_trader): Trading algorithm via scraped crypto, NASDAQ, and CPME rare minerals data. Made with Flask, Pandas, AWS, and SageMaker.
- [goPilot](https://github.com/jckail/goPilot): Agentic AI developer assistant and cli tool to help debug, develop, and compile apps written in GO. Built using python and go leveraging OpenAI assistants api.
- [Data Playground](https://github.com/jckail/data_playground): An interactive data-engineering lab for pipeline DAGs, data models, SQL analytics, graphs, and vector similarity.

## Interactive demos

- [AI Chat Billing System: interactive demo](https://www.jckail.com/aibilling): Interactive synthetic demo of an AI chat billing pipeline: token metering, cost by thread and model, and an invoice builder. (synthetic data, runs in the browser)
- [Jobbr: job parsing and resume matching demo](https://www.jckail.com/jobbr): An interactive, browser-only demo of Jobbr's documented flow: synthetic job postings parsed into structured fields by transparent rules, then matched to a resume with an explainable score. (synthetic data, runs in the browser)
- [Algo Crypto: an interactive trading-rule demo (synthetic data)](https://www.jckail.com/cryptotrader): Historical 2017-2018 Python, Pandas and AWS crypto data project, with an educational backtest of a moving-average rule on generated prices. (synthetic data, runs in the browser)
- [goPilot: CLI replay for a Go debugging assistant](https://www.jckail.com/gopilot): An interactive replay of goPilot, a CLI that runs Go code, lint and tests, filters the errors and sends them with project context to an OpenAI assistant. (synthetic data, runs in the browser)
- [Super Teacher](https://www.the-super-teacher.com/): A classroom copilot that answers 'who needs me today, and why?' with a ranked needs-attention list, a gradebook, attendance, and a streaming Claude assistant grounded in the class data.
- [PointUp](https://www.pointup.io/): Track airline miles, hotel points, and credit card rewards in one place. A TypeScript monorepo with a Next.js web app, PostgreSQL, Clerk accounts, and an AWS Bedrock Claude assistant.

## Profiles

- [GitHub](https://github.com/jckail)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jckail/)

## Optional

- [About (JSON)](https://www.jckail.com/api/aboutme)
- [Experience (JSON)](https://www.jckail.com/api/experience)
- [Projects (JSON)](https://www.jckail.com/api/projects)
- [Skills (JSON)](https://www.jckail.com/api/skills)