A live MCP server for AI assistants

Teach your AI about Jake Gaylor.

Point your assistant at this server and it can read my resume, score my fit against your job description, build the interview, and even email me — no copy-pasting, no stale PDFs.

https://ai.jakegaylor.com/mcp

Connect your assistant No MCP? Copy my resume instead

What your assistant can do here

Connect once, then ask in plain English. The server exposes tools for the whole evaluation — from first look to first contact.

Assess my fit

Paste your job description and get an honest read on where I'm strong and where I'm not, scored against my real experience.

“Is Jake a good fit for this role? [paste job description]”

Build the interview

Generate phone screens, technical deep-dives, system design sessions, or behavioral questions tailored to my background and your focus areas.

“Create a phone screen for Jake focused on Kubernetes and API design.”

Pull the source material

My resume, GitHub, LinkedIn, and website content, served as structured resources your assistant reads directly — always current.

“Summarize Jake's career highlights.”

Reach out

Looks like a match? Your assistant can email me directly from the conversation — you review it, the server sends it.

“Draft and send Jake an email about our staff platform engineer role.”

Connect in under a minute

The server is already hosted and running — nothing to install. Add the endpoint to any MCP-capable client, or use the npm package for clients that only speak stdio.

Streamable HTTP

Recommended

https://ai.jakegaylor.com/mcp

SSE

Legacy clients

https://ai.jakegaylor.com/sse

Client setup

Pick your client. Clients without remote MCP support can run the same server locally via the @jhgaylor/me-mcp npm package.

Add this configuration to your Claude config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jake-gaylor-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@jhgaylor/me-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Add this configuration to your Cursor settings

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jake-gaylor-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@jhgaylor/me-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Configure Windsurf to connect

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jake-gaylor-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@jhgaylor/me-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Set up Zed MCP server configuration

{
  "context_servers": {
    "jake-gaylor-mcp": {
      "settings": {},
      "command": {
        "path": "npx",
        "args": ["-y", "@jhgaylor/me-mcp"]
      }
    }
  }
}

For clients that support direct HTTP connections:

Connect to: https://ai.jakegaylor.com/mcp
Use standard MCP protocol methods to interact with the server
No local installation required — the server is already hosted and ready to use

Example TypeScript connection code

import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/index.js";
import { StreamableHTTPClientTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/streamableHttp.js";

async function connectToMCP() {
  const baseUrl = new URL("https://ai.jakegaylor.com/mcp");

  try {
    const client = new Client({ name: 'example-mcp-client', version: '1.0.0' });
    const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(baseUrl);
    await client.connect(transport);
    console.log("Connected to MCP server!");
    const resumeResource = await client.getResource("candidate-info://resume-text");
    console.log("Resume:", resumeResource.contents[0].text);
    const githubUrl = await client.callTool({ toolName: "get_github_url", args: {} });
    console.log("GitHub URL:", githubUrl.content[0].text);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Failed to connect to MCP server:", error);
  }
}
connectToMCP();

No MCP client? Copy this instead

Paste the text below into any AI assistant to give it my full background — no tools or special connections needed. Also available at ai.jakegaylor.com/llms.txt.

# Jake Gaylor
## Senior / Staff Engineer & Engineering Leader | I make good teams ship like great ones
jhgaylor@gmail.com | 720.453.3994 | https://jakegaylor.com | https://github.com/jhgaylor | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhgaylor/
Remote First, Will Travel

## Summary
I make good teams ship like great ones. 15+ years across SaaS, AI, infrastructure, and IoT, with a core of delivery: finding what slows a team down, rebuilding it into tools the whole team uses, and putting real metrics in place so decisions stop being guesses. Lately deep in AI: autonomous agents at Cloaked, the framework behind Block Party's internal coding bots, and Ravi, a funded agent-native SaaS.

## Professional Experience

### Ravi | Co-Founder | Jan 2026 - May 2026
https://ravi.id
Cofounded an agent-native SaaS that lets AI agents manage their own accounts and secrets.
- Raised a $400K pre-seed from South Park Commons
- Grew to hundreds of users
- Shipped the product end to end: a web SaaS and a cross-platform Flutter mobile app on the Apple App Store, built on prototypes started in 2024
- Designed agent-native account, secret, and 2FA management so AI agents can operate their own identities

### Block Party (acquired by DeleteMe) | Staff Software Engineer | May 2025 - Jan 2026
https://www.blockpartyapp.com/
Built internal AI and developer tooling for the engineering org, including the framework behind the company's internal coding bots, until Block Party was acquired by DeleteMe in January 2026.
- Designed and built the framework behind the company's internal AI coding bots

### Cloaked Inc | Staff Platform Engineer → Staff Product Engineer | Sep 2022 - May 2025
https://cloaked.app
Started in platform engineering (AWS EKS migration, GitOps CI/CD, compliance), then moved into product, building autonomous AI agents and a cross-functional ideation portal that drove a sticky, AI-powered onboarding experience.
- Built a GitOps-based CI/CD pipeline that accelerated deployments by 30x
- Led the migration from legacy PaaS to AWS EKS, with a multi-account model meeting SOC2, ISO 27001, and 27701 compliance
- Built an end-to-end product-analytics stack that enabled data-driven decisions across the company
- Built autonomous AI agents with LangChain to automate user account management (auto change password, login, and email)
- Turned those AI agents into a core fundraising narrative and a sticky, AI-powered onboarding experience that boosted adoption and retention
- Launched a cross-functional ideation portal connecting design, product, engineering, and executives with transparent status tracking

### The Onward Store Steakhouse | Owner / Co-GM | Oct 2021 - Jan 2024
Owned and managed a full-service steakhouse with 7 staff, generating $500K in annual revenue and overseeing P&L, operations, and vendor relations.
- Led a team of 7 employees, handling recruitment, training, scheduling, and performance management.
- Directed all facets of business operations, achieving $500K in annual revenue through strategic inventory management and cost control.
- Designed and implemented operational processes for facility maintenance, vendor partnerships, and quality assurance, driving consistent customer satisfaction.
- Managed P&L, budgets, and financial reporting, optimizing expenses and improving profit margins.
- Executed marketing and community engagement initiatives to increase local brand awareness and repeat patronage.

### Inception Health | Staff SWE in Developer Experience | Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Architected AWS CDK infrastructure and tooling for HIPAA-compliant patient care microservices
- Led delivery of AWS CDK infrastructure for patient care microservices platform, ensuring HIPAA compliance and deep AWS integration
- Collaborated with AWS and partner teams to integrate managed services and accelerate platform development
- Championed CDK usage across application tiers, designing IaC patterns for teams to consume and interact with the platform
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines for mobile apps, automating TestFlight and App Store releases through Git, enabling self-serve deployments
- Trained and mentored product and mobile development teams on CDK, serverless architectures, and CI/CD workflows, fostering autonomy

### CyberGRX (now ProcessUnity) | Senior Platform Engineer | Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
https://www.cybergrx.com
Led cloud-native CI/CD vision and implementation for AWS and Kubernetes
- Led vision on cloud-native CI/CD pipelines for AWS and Kubernetes
- Developed custom resource using CoreOS operator SDK for orchestrating blue/green deployments
- Redesigned build and deploy process that dramatically improved team productivity
- Mentored software engineers in best practices for building and deploying software
- Grew into Staff Engineer role by owning large-scope initiatives, collaborating with the Tech Lead to drive interactions across the organization and unblock progress

### Cardfree | Senior Cloud Platform Engineer | Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Managed large-scale PCI-compliant C# installation in AWS
- Managed a large-scale PCI-compliant C# installation in AWS
- Architected hybrid AMI build and deploy platform using Packer and Vagrant, enabling consistent Windows and Linux EC2 deployments for C# and Ruby services
- Standardized infrastructure-as-code practices to pave the way for open-source .NET migration
- Developed and launched a structured PCI-compliant incident response program, replacing ad-hoc Slack alerts with a streamlined IR workflow without excessive paperwork

### Protectwise, Inc (Acquired by Verizon) | Senior DevOps Engineer | Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
Operated SRE for petabyte-scale data ingestion platform
- Managed SRE for massive scale data ingestion platform with thousands of Cassandra nodes and petabytes in S3
- Administered $10M+/yr production AWS environment using Infrastructure as Code

### Food Service Warehouse | DevOps Engineer | Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Built Kubernetes clusters on vSphere using CoreOS technologies
- Implemented Kubernetes clusters on vSphere using CoreOS, fleet, etcd, and flannel
- Accelerated release cycles for Node.js services with container orchestration

### Mississippi State University | Software Developer | Jun 2010 - Jun 2014
Created grant proposals and custom software for research initiatives
- Created grant proposals to fund custom software for university research initiatives
- Developed software for tracking 'human sensors' through natural disasters including Hurricane Sandy

## Skills

### AI Engineering (Advanced)
LangChain, Crewai, Custom Agent Framework, MCP Servers, LLM Integration

### Cloud Infrastructure (Expert)
AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, vSphere, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Cloudflare

### CI/CD & DevOps (Expert)
GitOps, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab CI, Continuous Deployment

### Programming Languages (Advanced)
Javascript, Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, Dart

### Databases (Advanced)
Neo4j, PostgreSQL, Timestream, MongoDB, Redis, Etcd, Zookeeper, Cassandra, DynamoDB

### Distributed Systems (Expert)
Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS IoT, Big Data, Spark, EMR

### Monitoring (Advanced)
Prometheus, CloudWatch, Sensu, Pagerduty, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Graphite

### Product Engineering (Expert)
Data-driven Iteration, Feature Development, User Feedback Loops, MVP Development, Product Analytics

### Product & Business (Advanced)
Roadmapping, Customer Discovery, P&L Management, Go-to-Market Strategy, Fundraising

## Projects

### MCP Working Group Contributions
https://github.com/jhgaylor
Active participant in Model Context Protocol (MCP) community development
- Member of the MCP Hosting Working Group
- Developed strategies for deploying and running MCP servers at scale
- Contributed to Dart SDK, Express tool for binding to MCP servers
- Developed various MCP servers (Hirebase, Candidate Job Search, Text Extraction)
- Created GitOps tool for MCP deployments
- Operate publicly available MCP servers for community testing

### CareerFlick LLM-Driven Mobile App
Developed a mobile application with a Tinder-like LLM interface
- Built intuitive swipe-based interface for interacting with LLMs
- Implemented AI-driven content generation and response system
- Created responsive mobile-first user experience

### Hirebase MCP Server
https://github.com/jhgaylor/hirebase-mcp
A Python MCP server for Hirebase.org's API
- Built a Python-based Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for searching jobs on Hirebase.org
- Dockerized the service and set up GitOps CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and releases

### Express MCP Handler
https://github.com/jhgaylor/express-mcp-handler
Package to simplify MCP handling in Express.js
- Developed Express middleware in TypeScript to streamline MCP request handling
- Authored full type definitions and robust error handling for production-grade reliability
- Configured CI/CD pipelines to automate code validation and package publishing

### Node Candidate MCP Server
https://github.com/jhgaylor/node-candidate-mcp-server
A TypeScript library to build customizable candidate MCP servers
- Authored a reusable library enabling developers to integrate their own candidate data into MCP flows
- Published as an npm package for easy adoption and extension by other teams

### mcp_dart
https://github.com/leehack/mcp_dart
Dart SDK implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Contributed stream based support for in-process MCP servers
- Add support for running MCP servers in flutter apps
- Authored Dart examples to accelerate SDK adoption

## References

"Jake is a force for good unlike any other. He migrated our infra to a cheaper and more scalable system, crafted a CI pipeline that accelerated deploys by 30x, and taught the whole company how to make data-driven decisions by building and showcasing an entire product analytics stack. And that was just his first 6 months." - Director Platform Engineering, Cloaked

"I watched Jake redo a build and deploy process over the span of 3 days, whip up a presentation, and get every engineer in the org up to speed using it to deploy new services, a moment I'll never forget because our productivity EXPLODED afterwards." - Software Engineer, CyberGRX

"I also wanted to second (third? Fourth?) Jake's skills here. I don't have anything unique to add as everyone else has already covered it, but this man will help you achieve what you need." - Senior Platform Engineer, Inception Health

"Jake worked in the pit with [the operations team] and everyday came in with killer energy. Everyone else told us how to work around problems. Jake built us better tools." - Magician, Magic

"Jake was instrumental in building our cloud-native security platform. His technical leadership helped shape our architecture and team practices." - DevOps Engineer, Protectwise

Under the hood

This site speaks the Model Context Protocol — the open standard that lets AI assistants call external tools and read external data. Anything that speaks MCP can use it. The server itself is open source: @jhgaylor/candidate-mcp-server.

Tools — actions your assistant can take

assess_role_fit

Assesses my fit for a specific role from a job title, full job description, and key requirements.

generate_interview_questions

Generates tailored questions by interview type — phone screen, technical, behavioral, system design, or culture fit — focused on the areas you choose.

contact_candidate

Sends me an email with your subject, message, and reply address. Your assistant drafts it, you review it, the server delivers it.

get_resume_text / get_resume_url

Returns my resume as plain text, or a URL to the hosted copy: https://jakegaylor.com/resume/.

get_github_url / get_linkedin_url / get_website_url

Return my profile links:

get_website_text

Returns the content of my personal website as text, for assistants that can't browse.

Resources & prompts — data it can read

candidate-info://resume-text

# Jake Gaylor ## Senior / Staff Engineer & Engineering Leader | I make good teams ship like great ones jhgaylor@gmail.com | 720.453.3994 | https://jakegaylor.com | https://github.com/jhgaylor | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhgaylor/ Remote First, Will Travel ## Summary I make good teams ship like great ones. 15+ years across SaaS, AI, infrastructure, and IoT, with a core of delivery: finding what slows a team down, rebuilding it into tools the whole team uses, and putting real metrics in place so decisions stop being guesses. Lately deep in AI: autonomous agents at Cloaked, the framework behind Block Party's internal coding bots, and Ravi, a funded agent-native SaaS. ## Professional Experience ### Ravi | Co-Founder | Jan 2026 - May 2026 https://ravi.id Cofounded an agent-native SaaS that lets AI agents manage their own accounts and secrets. - Raised a $400K pre-seed from South Park Commons - Grew to hundreds of users - Shipped the product end to end: a web SaaS and a cross-platform Flutter mobile app on the Apple App Store, built on prototypes started in 2024 - Designed agent-native account, secret, and 2FA management so AI agents can operate their own identities ### Block Party (acquired by DeleteMe) | Staff Software Engineer | May 2025 - Jan 2026 https://www.blockpartyapp.com/ Built internal AI and developer tooling for the engineering org, including the framework behind the company's internal coding bots, until Block Party was acquired by DeleteMe in January 2026. - Designed and built the framework behind the company's internal AI coding bots ### Cloaked Inc | Staff Platform Engineer → Staff Product Engineer | Sep 2022 - May 2025 https://cloaked.app Started in platform engineering (AWS EKS migration, GitOps CI/CD, compliance), then moved into product, building autonomous AI agents and a cross-functional ideation portal that drove a sticky, AI-powered onboarding experience. - Built a GitOps-based CI/CD pipeline that accelerated deployments by 30x - Led the migration from legacy PaaS to AWS EKS, with a multi-account model meeting SOC2, ISO 27001, and 27701 compliance - Built an end-to-end product-analytics stack that enabled data-driven decisions across the company - Built autonomous AI agents with LangChain to automate user account management (auto change password, login, and email) - Turned those AI agents into a core fundraising narrative and a sticky, AI-powered onboarding experience that boosted adoption and retention - Launched a cross-functional ideation portal connecting design, product, engineering, and executives with transparent status tracking ### The Onward Store Steakhouse | Owner / Co-GM | Oct 2021 - Jan 2024 Owned and managed a full-service steakhouse with 7 staff, generating $500K in annual revenue and overseeing P&L, operations, and vendor relations. - Led a team of 7 employees, handling recruitment, training, scheduling, and performance management. - Directed all facets of business operations, achieving $500K in annual revenue through strategic inventory management and cost control. - Designed and implemented operational processes for facility maintenance, vendor partnerships, and quality assurance, driving consistent customer satisfaction. - Managed P&L, budgets, and financial reporting, optimizing expenses and improving profit margins. - Executed marketing and community engagement initiatives to increase local brand awareness and repeat patronage. ### Inception Health | Staff SWE in Developer Experience | Jun 2020 - Jun 2022 Architected AWS CDK infrastructure and tooling for HIPAA-compliant patient care microservices - Led delivery of AWS CDK infrastructure for patient care microservices platform, ensuring HIPAA compliance and deep AWS integration - Collaborated with AWS and partner teams to integrate managed services and accelerate platform development - Championed CDK usage across application tiers, designing IaC patterns for teams to consume and interact with the platform - Implemented CI/CD pipelines for mobile apps, automating TestFlight and App Store releases through Git, enabling self-serve deployments - Trained and mentored product and mobile development teams on CDK, serverless architectures, and CI/CD workflows, fostering autonomy ### CyberGRX (now ProcessUnity) | Senior Platform Engineer | Dec 2018 - Jun 2020 https://www.cybergrx.com Led cloud-native CI/CD vision and implementation for AWS and Kubernetes - Led vision on cloud-native CI/CD pipelines for AWS and Kubernetes - Developed custom resource using CoreOS operator SDK for orchestrating blue/green deployments - Redesigned build and deploy process that dramatically improved team productivity - Mentored software engineers in best practices for building and deploying software - Grew into Staff Engineer role by owning large-scope initiatives, collaborating with the Tech Lead to drive interactions across the organization and unblock progress ### Cardfree | Senior Cloud Platform Engineer | Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 Managed large-scale PCI-compliant C# installation in AWS - Managed a large-scale PCI-compliant C# installation in AWS - Architected hybrid AMI build and deploy platform using Packer and Vagrant, enabling consistent Windows and Linux EC2 deployments for C# and Ruby services - Standardized infrastructure-as-code practices to pave the way for open-source .NET migration - Developed and launched a structured PCI-compliant incident response program, replacing ad-hoc Slack alerts with a streamlined IR workflow without excessive paperwork ### Protectwise, Inc (Acquired by Verizon) | Senior DevOps Engineer | Aug 2016 - Jan 2018 Operated SRE for petabyte-scale data ingestion platform - Managed SRE for massive scale data ingestion platform with thousands of Cassandra nodes and petabytes in S3 - Administered $10M+/yr production AWS environment using Infrastructure as Code ### Food Service Warehouse | DevOps Engineer | Jun 2015 - Mar 2016 Built Kubernetes clusters on vSphere using CoreOS technologies - Implemented Kubernetes clusters on vSphere using CoreOS, fleet, etcd, and flannel - Accelerated release cycles for Node.js services with container orchestration ### Mississippi State University | Software Developer | Jun 2010 - Jun 2014 Created grant proposals and custom software for research initiatives - Created grant proposals to fund custom software for university research initiatives - Developed software for tracking 'human sensors' through natural disasters including Hurricane Sandy ## Skills ### AI Engineering (Advanced) LangChain, Crewai, Custom Agent Framework, MCP Servers, LLM Integration ### Cloud Infrastructure (Expert) AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, vSphere, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Cloudflare ### CI/CD & DevOps (Expert) GitOps, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab CI, Continuous Deployment ### Programming Languages (Advanced) Javascript, Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, Dart ### Databases (Advanced) Neo4j, PostgreSQL, Timestream, MongoDB, Redis, Etcd, Zookeeper, Cassandra, DynamoDB ### Distributed Systems (Expert) Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS IoT, Big Data, Spark, EMR ### Monitoring (Advanced) Prometheus, CloudWatch, Sensu, Pagerduty, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Graphite ### Product Engineering (Expert) Data-driven Iteration, Feature Development, User Feedback Loops, MVP Development, Product Analytics ### Product & Business (Advanced) Roadmapping, Customer Discovery, P&L Management, Go-to-Market Strategy, Fundraising ## Projects ### MCP Working Group Contributions https://github.com/jhgaylor Active participant in Model Context Protocol (MCP) community development - Member of the MCP Hosting Working Group - Developed strategies for deploying and running MCP servers at scale - Contributed to Dart SDK, Express tool for binding to MCP servers - Developed various MCP servers (Hirebase, Candidate Job Search, Text Extraction) - Created GitOps tool for MCP deployments - Operate publicly available MCP servers for community testing ### CareerFlick LLM-Driven Mobile App Developed a mobile application with a Tinder-like LLM interface - Built intuitive swipe-based interface for interacting with LLMs - Implemented AI-driven content generation and response system - Created responsive mobile-first user experience ### Hirebase MCP Server https://github.com/jhgaylor/hirebase-mcp A Python MCP server for Hirebase.org's API - Built a Python-based Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for searching jobs on Hirebase.org - Dockerized the service and set up GitOps CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and releases ### Express MCP Handler https://github.com/jhgaylor/express-mcp-handler Package to simplify MCP handling in Express.js - Developed Express middleware in TypeScript to streamline MCP request handling - Authored full type definitions and robust error handling for production-grade reliability - Configured CI/CD pipelines to automate code validation and package publishing ### Node Candidate MCP Server https://github.com/jhgaylor/node-candidate-mcp-server A TypeScript library to build customizable candidate MCP servers - Authored a reusable library enabling developers to integrate their own candidate data into MCP flows - Published as an npm package for easy adoption and extension by other teams ### mcp_dart https://github.com/leehack/mcp_dart Dart SDK implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Contributed stream based support for in-process MCP servers - Add support for running MCP servers in flutter apps - Authored Dart examples to accelerate SDK adoption ## References "Jake is a force for good unlike any other. He migrated our infra to a cheaper and more scalable system, crafted a CI pipeline that accelerated deploys by 30x, and taught the whole company how to make data-driven decisions by building and showcasing an entire product analytics stack. And that was just his first 6 months." - Director Platform Engineering, Cloaked "I watched Jake redo a build and deploy process over the span of 3 days, whip up a presentation, and get every engineer in the org up to speed using it to deploy new services, a moment I'll never forget because our productivity EXPLODED afterwards." - Software Engineer, CyberGRX "I also wanted to second (third? Fourth?) Jake's skills here. I don't have anything unique to add as everyone else has already covered it, but this man will help you achieve what you need." - Senior Platform Engineer, Inception Health "Jake worked in the pit with [the operations team] and everyday came in with killer energy. Everyone else told us how to work around problems. Jake built us better tools." - Magician, Magic "Jake was instrumental in building our cloud-native security platform. His technical leadership helped shape our architecture and team practices." - DevOps Engineer, Protectwise

candidate-info://website-text

Senior · Staff · Engineering Leadership I make good teams ship like great ones. Good teams rarely lack talent. They lack speed, focus, and the visibility to see what’s working. That’s the gap I close, fast. View Resume Email Me Text Me Whatever you’re short on, I’ve shipped it My core is delivery: making teams ship fast and see what’s working. 15+ years across many related disciplines have made me fluent in most and genuinely deep in four. SaaS & AI Products Spent my career building SaaS, lately deep in AI: LangChain agents at Cloaked, the framework behind Block Party’s internal coding bots, and Ravi, an agent-native SaaS for secret management. SRE & DevOps Ran SRE on petabyte-scale systems at Protectwise, through dozens of production deploys a day, and across multiple lines of business. Plus the internal delivery tooling that kept it all shipping. IoT & Firmware Designed custom air-quality sensor PCBs, wrote their firmware, and built the SaaS that drives it all to a target climate. Deployed across a controlled-environment agriculture facility: 100 control units and 200+ sensors. Owned a Business Ran a full-service steakhouse outright: hired and led the team, drove $500K in annual revenue, and lived with the vendors, the costs, and the margin. The part of the business most engineers never see. What changed after I showed up Not adjectives. The real outcomes teams measured after I joined. 30x faster deploys “Jake is a force for good unlike any other. He migrated our infra to a cheaper and more scalable system, crafted a CI pipeline that accelerated deploys by 30x, and taught the whole company how to make data-driven decisions by building an entire product analytics stack. And that was just his first 6 months.” Director of Platform Engineering, Cloaked 3 days to org-wide adoption “I watched Jake redo a build and deploy process over the span of 3 days, whip up a presentation, and get every engineer in the org up to speed using it, a moment I’ll never forget because our productivity EXPLODED afterwards.” Software Engineer, CyberGRX $10M+/yr production AWS, petabyte scale “Jake was instrumental in building our cloud-native security platform. His technical leadership shaped our architecture and team practices.” Behind it: SRE for thousands of Cassandra nodes and petabytes in S3, acquired by Verizon. DevOps Engineer, Protectwise “We were deploying C# on vSphere when Jake joined our first Node.js team. He brought Docker, we moved to Kubernetes, and our services had the fastest release cycle in the company.” Architect, Food Service Warehouse “Everyone else told us how to work around problems. Jake built us better tools.” Operator, Magic My first 90 days on your team Anyone can claim they can build. Here’s what I actually do in the first three months, with a receipt behind every move. 1 Make delivery easy I find the slow, error-prone parts of shipping and rebuild them into tools the whole team actually uses, even as AI floods the pipeline with PRs. Receipt Every engineer in the org shipping a new deploy process in 3 days at CyberGRX, and the fastest release cycle in the company at Food Service Warehouse. 2 Bring visibility to the team’s work I get real metrics in place so decisions stop being guesses and everyone can see what’s actually working. Receipt Built and showcased an entire product-analytics stack at Cloaked, teaching the company to make data-driven calls. 3 Ship the small first version, instrumented I put an embarrassingly small v1 in front of real users with tracking from day one, then let how they use it decide what’s next. Receipt Small AI v1s I shipped and tuned from real usage have helped land an acquisition, validate a line of investment, and win funding for a brand-new idea. Hiring for a senior, staff, or leadership role? If your team needs someone who can lift the whole team and build at every layer, let’s talk. View Resume Email Me Text Me Or browse my projects & ventures. Screening with an AI assistant? Point it at ai.jakegaylor.com. © 2026 Jake Gaylor. All rights reserved. This page now lives at jakegaylor.com.

candidate-info://*-url

Resume, LinkedIn, GitHub, and website URLs, exposed as individual resources (resume-url, linkedin-url, github-url, website-url).

Built-in prompts

Ready-made starting points your MCP client can surface directly: evaluate_job_fit, generate_phone_screen, get_candidate_background, summarize_career_highlights, assess_tech_proficiency, assess_product_collaboration, and assess_startup_fit.

Let your assistant run the first screen.

Connect it, paste your job description, and find out in minutes whether we should talk. If the answer is yes — it knows how to reach me.

Email Me View Resume jakegaylor.com