now

now

things that jake is doing now

  • product managing r&d at pex
  • running a bi-weekly AI newsletter
  • consulting with misc people about generative AI
  • being a dad
  • exploring various solar systems in Starfield

the past

  • gave a talk on the state of popular AI products at Data Science Nashville
  • built an AI-based music metadata generator
  • wrote misc python scripts to source music metadata
  • built an AI-based brand brief generator
  • taught myself the basics of python and various ML frameworks
  • built a database-of-truth at pex
  • product managed an online bookseller called aerio
  • built an NLP-based book metadata enhancement service
  • helped with business analysis for ingram content group
  • wrote a book on publishing metadata
  • headed up metadata quality for a music metadata engine
  • wrote music metadata style guides for MusicBiz
  • built a classical distribution engine with a cool guy