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  "name": "Jake Williams",
  "alternateName": "Jacob Williams",
  "handle": "jakeintech",
  "jobTitle": "Data & AI Platform Engineer",
  "employer": "Vantage Risk",
  "location": "Denver, CO, US",
  "summary": "Jake Williams is a data & AI platform engineer at a specialty insurer — owner of the Kafka CDC streaming backbone, builder of core domains in the governed Snowflake lakehouse, and creator of the enterprise Claude plugin marketplace: 12 plugins and authored domain skills across six business domains, used analyst to C-suite. Agentic analytics with governance, evals, and an audit trail — in production, not a pilot.",
  "availability": "Open to senior data-platform and AI/agent engineering roles — and AVP-level data-platform leadership in financial services.",
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      "context": "Platform cost engineered out — Event Hubs → Kafka on Kubernetes"
    },
    {
      "metric": "3 days → <30 min",
      "context": "Quarterly reserve review — governed natural-language analytics via marketplace plugins"
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      "metric": "12 plugins",
      "context": "Claude plugin marketplace — ~200 monthly users (40% of company), 2K+ queries/mo"
    },
    {
      "metric": "AWS SAA",
      "context": "Certified — AWS Solutions Architect + Cloud Practitioner"
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    "Data engineering",
    "Data platform engineering",
    "Apache Kafka",
    "Kafka Connect",
    "Debezium",
    "Change data capture (CDC)",
    "Snowflake",
    "Snowflake Cortex",
    "dbt",
    "Dagster",
    "Apache Iceberg",
    "PySpark",
    "Kubernetes",
    "Argo CD",
    "Helm",
    "GitOps",
    "Semantic layer",
    "Governed AI analytics",
    "AI engineering",
    "Agentic AI",
    "AI agents",
    "LLM evaluation",
    "Model Context Protocol (MCP)",
    "Claude plugins",
    "Observability as code",
    "FinOps",
    "Data governance",
    "SOC 2",
    "iOS development",
    "SwiftUI",
    "HealthKit",
    "On-device AI"
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    "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner"
  ],
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      "name": "Waybill",
      "description": "MIT-licensed Claude Code plugin — deterministic token accounting for AI-assisted work",
      "url": "https://github.com/Jakeintech/waybill"
    }
  ],
  "apps": [
    {
      "name": "QuotedAI",
      "description": "Quotes that know your moment — an on-device engine reads time of day, energy, and activity via HealthKit to surface the right words. No ads, no trackers. 2K+ downloads.",
      "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quotedai/id6744121383",
      "tech": [
        "SwiftUI",
        "HealthKit",
        "on-device AI"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "work": "https://jakeawilliams.com/work/",
    "caseStudy": "https://jakeawilliams.com/work/semantic-analytics/",
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  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-30"
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