jared_stewart

Director/Staff-level builder. I live in the spaces between engineering, product, and strategy.

Recent highlights: - Helped scale Proofpoint's Email Fraud Defense from ~$30M to $200M+ ARR (staff eng, 4.5 years) - Led AI/ML team at Velocity Global automating contract parsing - eliminated thousands of manual hours using LLMs - Director of Data Engineering at CoBank - reduced AWS costs 25%, built enterprise APIs

Wanted to design buildings as a kid, ended up architecting systems instead. Started in civil engineering, worked on HD Maps at Mercedes-Benz R&D and Threat Research at Level 3. Turns out I just like making things that don't fall over - whether that's bridges or data pipelines.

What drives me: Making complex systems both powerful and usable. I love the early stages where you're figuring out what to build, not just how.

Looking for: Senior IC or leadership roles shaping data/AI strategy. Open to fintech, security, infrastructure - anywhere with interesting challenges and smart people.

PhD from Colorado School of Mines. Always happy to chat and make new connections Connect: jared.andrew.stewart<at>gmail.com | jaredstewart.io