hi, i'm Jack

# welcome to my personal website!

about me

    # I work on the platform that ships software updates to Ford
    # vehicles already on the road. before this I spent two years
    # in the Ford College Graduate program, rotating through five
    # engineering teams across the company, including Latitude
    # AI, Ford's autonomous driving subsidiary

work experience

Ford Motor Company — Vehicle Software Update Deployments

Software Engineer | July 2026 – Present

  • Supporting over-the-air update deployments across production Java microservices that deliver software to Ford vehicles in the field
Ford Motor Company — Rotational Engineering Program

Software Engineer, Autonomy Analytics — Latitude AI | Apr 2026 – July 2026

  • Built evaluation analytics tooling for Latitude AI's Autonomy Analytics team, including a Plotly Dash dashboard exporter that automated behavioral performance comparison and saved 15+ engineering hours per week

Software Engineer, OTA Platform | Jan 2026 – Apr 2026

  • Architected an OTA installation time estimation module for Ford's Universal EV platform, exposing predicted update durations and performance metrics consumed by vehicle HMI and fleet management systems

Software Engineer, DevOps | July 2025 – Jan 2026

  • Designed and prototyped API endpoints in Python and FastAPI for an automated software release tool, reducing manual coordination overhead across 5+ internal teams

Software Engineer, Perception Evaluation | Jan 2025 – July 2025

  • Built metrics infrastructure and evaluation pipeline for an in-house ML perception model, replacing ad-hoc reporting workflows and directly informing model retraining decisions

Software Engineer, EV Auxiliary Controls | July 2024 – Jan 2025

  • Delivered 7 features ahead of schedule for Ford's first in-house bidirectional V2H charging controls stack, advancing project timelines by up to 3 months
Ford Motor Company — Connected Vehicle Software Intern

May 2023 – Aug 2023

  • Developed ASIL-C rated embedded C software for next-generation EVs, owning end-to-end lifecycle from ISO 26262 requirement authoring through platform integration

# check out a recent open-source contribution I made here!

besides work

I like to hike, build/tinker with computers (and help friends fix theirs), play guitar, and start new personal projects before I've finished old ones :) 

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