Jon Vogel

About

Built a production AI-native internal onboarding feature that reduced manual product setup effort by combining barcode API data, product photos, structured LLM outputs, and a polished real-time camera UI. Demonstrates hands-on experience across the full stack of LLM systems: prompt/schema design, multimodal inputs, backend orchestration with SQS and vector retrieval, and production reliability through evals, telemetry, and drift monitoring.

Key Strengths

• Shipped a production AI-native product onboarding feature end-to-end
• Applied multimodal LLM workflows to extract product data from barcode APIs and photos
• Strong structured-output design for database-ready LLM responses
• Built polished real-time camera UI with barcode overlays and progress visualization
• Practical reliability mindset using human evaluation, benchmarking, and unit tests
• Reusable integration design via packaged OpenAI API client
• Understands agent loop fundamentals: system prompts, tool context, state, and failure handling
• Designed backend orchestration with queues, microservices, embeddings, and vector retrieval
• Production observability focus with telemetry, drift monitoring, and eval-driven iteration
• Used evaluation data to diagnose model-quality regressions and adjust model selection
• 0-1 startup engineering experience
• built and launched an iOS app on the Apple App Store
• applies hands-on user testing to improve product usability
• experience supporting seed to Series A fundraising processes
• participated in technical due diligence for startup investment rounds
• structured idea evaluation using business model frameworks
• resilience and long-term commitment to entrepreneurship

Reference Highlights

• innovative
• creative
• clear communicator
• unique perspective on problems
• leapfrogs traditional approaches
• improves deployment speed
• improves service reliability
• end-to-end prototype ownership
• strong documentation
• drives major accuracy gains
• multiple patents
• strong end-to-end ownership
• thrives in ambiguous zero-to-one environments
• led iOS innovation
• drives new feature ideas
• solves tough technical problems
• shapes creative product direction
• goes beyond job description
• trusted for unsolvable problems
• optimistic approach
• built Nomad Go iOS product from the ground up
• delivered production-ready product
• handles real technical complexity
• works closely across disciplines
• feedback-driven
• responsive to enterprise client needs
• translates client feedback into product solutions
• innovative algorithm design

Experience

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Awards

• Patent: US Patent 12,002,008 B2
• Patent US 12,002,008 B2

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Publications

1 publication