I help established companies get important AI initiatives moving. I embed with the team, work directly with the people who own the problem, and take responsibility across product and engineering from the first decision through production. That can mean building a new AI product, creating custom software and analytics around existing data, or making a major upgrade to an existing system.
Companies bring me in when they need senior ownership and speed without hiring a full team or paying a large consulting firm.
Built a custom family law platform now used by a local firm to manage matters, collect client intake, analyze financial records, and generate court filings.
- Built hybrid retrieval over Georgia statutes, case law, and matter documents, combining keyword and semantic search so AI answers are grounded in cited legal sources and the attorney's case record.
- Built document ingestion and structured extraction for bank statements, tax records, and pay stubs. The system reconciles extracted data with client intake and flags conflicts for attorney review.
- Built client portal flows for intake and financial affidavits, plus generation of divorce filings and parenting plans from case data.
Built a full-stack telehealth platform from zero: patient intake portal, EHR provider UI, and a serverless backend on AWS. FHIR-based architecture on Oystehr with Auth0, appointment scheduling, lab orders, Rx, and automated billing.
- Built an automated fax parsing pipeline that extracts patient data from incoming faxes and maps it directly to FHIR records, eliminating manual data entry.
Built a voice agent system on Retell AI that autonomously calls insurance adjusters to gather case information, replacing hours of manual outreach per claim.
- Designed an iteration-based versioning system so the team can test and promote new agent versions without touching live calls.
- Built an analytics suite tracking call outcomes, success rates, and campaign coverage.
Designed and built an agentic coding framework that brings AI-assisted development into every phase of the SDLC, from ticket to merged code.
- Skills map to development phases and chain: spec, build, execute, test, pre-review, MR review. Each defines explicit inputs, outputs, and checkpoints.
- Runs inside Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex and pulls live context from Jira, Confluence, and Figma. Works across multiple repos.
- A podcast of a podcast. PodCore distills hour-long episodes into 5-minute audio summaries, plus a written brief with key concepts, notable quotes, and takeaways.
- Subscribe to any show via YouTube URL and get the brief delivered to your inbox the moment a new episode drops.
- Founded and launched Linda, an iOS app that conducts real-time AI interviews and transforms them into polished podcast episodes, published directly to Spotify and Apple Music.
- Named after my mother, inspired by a road trip where I realized I'd never actually recorded her stories. Built for anyone who wants a living audio archive of their own life.
- Users have created thousands of episodes. Average session time of 30 minutes; 45% WAU/MAU for power users.
- Raised angel funding from Factorial Capital and Alex Chung (GIPHY founder).
- First engineer. Built much of the foundational infrastructure: the website, v2 web crawlers, and early content pipelines. Contributed to the API and search engine from the ground up.
- Built foundational systems for a platform that scaled to 2–3 billion daily searches and hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
- Took on the company's most forward-looking technical problems independently, laying the groundwork for GIPHY's ML org.
- Built and led GIPHY's ML org from the ground up. Grew to a team of 5 ML engineers covering search, recommendations, content intelligence, and generative content.
- Trained and open-sourced GIPHY's celebrity detection model, a custom CNN identifying 2,300+ celebrities at 98% accuracy.
- Built GIPHY2Vec, an in-house NLP model for content recommendations and semantic KNN search.
- Integrated vector search across GIPHY's core search product, achieving 50–200% CTR lift on long-tail queries.
- Built a semantic query clustering microservice that enabled a 5–10x increase in advertiser keyword inventory.
- Fine-tuned generative models for production use: AnimateDiff for video content, CLIP for recommendations, LLMs for search taxonomy.
Part of Atlanta Tech Village's selective advisor program, working with early-stage startups on AI, fundraising, product strategy, team building, and engineering.
- Migrated Alan Lomax's Global Jukebox, a vast ethnomusicology archive, off a local Java server and into a cloud-hosted Django API with a queryable database.
- Uploaded thousands of field recordings and audio files to cloud storage, making them publicly accessible for the first time at scale.
- The project launched to New York Times coverage in July 2017.
Rhizome at the New Museum
2008–2012
- Migrated Rhizome's sprawling PHP codebase to Django, modernizing the platform for one of the world's leading digital art organizations.
- Rebuilt the ArtBase, Rhizome's archive of born-digital artworks, into a custom museum management CMS.
- Collaborated with the Getty to develop a new ontology for describing and classifying digital artworks.
I help organizations turn valuable data, workflows, and AI opportunities into working software. I embed with the team, own product and engineering from the first decision through production, and leave the people and systems in place to keep building.
Start or Accelerate an AI Initiative
Turn a business problem, workflow, or data asset into a production plan and working system. I determine what should be built, what should be bought, and what your organization needs to own.
Embedded AI Product and Engineering
I join your team for a defined mandate, lead the product and technical decisions, and build the systems that get the initiative moving.
Custom AI Software and Analytics
Purpose built tools that combine your data, workflows, and AI. This can include analytics, decision support, automation, voice agents, and internal applications.
If you have an AI initiative that needs a senior owner, email jnhasty@gmail.com. Based in Atlanta and available for remote and on-site engagements.