Hi folks, I'm Jake

I'm a senior AI engineer at Microsoft. I lead AI support engineering for several of Microsoft's largest strategic partners across banking, software, and healthcare, and I'm the Americas representative for the Agentic Workflows Center of Excellence — which is a long way of saying that when a production AI system breaks at enterprise scale, I'm one of the people who finds out why.

The thread through everything I build is autonomous agents and what it takes to actually trust them. Professionally that means multi-agent systems with real enforcement layers; on my own time it means handing AI agents entire projects and writing honestly about what holds and what breaks. (It goes better than you'd expect. The caveats are the interesting part.)

Before Microsoft, I co-founded a startup and built communications intelligence from zero. My wife and I live in the mountains of Wyoming at 7,200 feet, where the air is thin and the people are hardy.

Off the clock: too many side projects, hiking, amateur cello, scifi, reading about whatever's happening in AI/space/physics, strategy games, and documenting my cats' continued refusal to be impressed by anything I build.