🦾Jepson Taylor

I build stuff that doesn’t exist, an AI explorer. 
Unfortunately I have too many connections so please follow me instead. 

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I watch the watchers, I direct the learners. 

I am passionate about machine learning. My life's mission is to further the boundaries of what is possible with data science. I spend as much time as I can working with deep learning, NLP, and all forms of data science. I currently have a passion project I am managing where I am combining the power of genetic programming with deep learning to automate network design. I think there is a trend happening in data science where human expertise and creativity are being replaced by powerful new methods (i.e. deep learning, big data). 

I am most well known for my machine learning work with the data science community and with HireVue. With the community, I enjoy posting opinions on jobs and tutorials on ML methods. I also enjoy speaking and presenting to all types of audiences. 

I've enjoyed working across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and customer success. This wider POV has helped shape the way I think about innovation, from the innovation farm to the customer's table ;)

CEO/founder VEOX

VEOX Inc is revolutionizing the AI industry by creating an AI-driven algorithm factory, compressing decades of progress into moments. Our technology automates AI science research, continuously improving algorithm efficiency and outperforming human-made algorithms. VEOX is not just building another AI company; we're catalyzing an explosion of technological advancements that will reshape the entire tech landscape. Join us in accelerating intelligence beyond human limits and leading the next wave of AI breakthroughs.

Jepson Taylor

We canceled our team’s Cursor account today. Strange considering I was so smitten by it. 🌹🥀Like a high school fling, onto the next babe. Oh, and I was top 3% globally as a user in 2025 at 22B tokens of code. Should have been on their customer advisory board maybe. AMA

CEO/founder VEOX Inc | Fasted Ultra Runner | Contributing Faculty AIMasterClass NYU | Keynote Speaker | former child

Some of the smartest people I've met in my life are... incredibly stupid. They can't read the room, they don't know how to talk to executives, they lack emotional intelligence and self-awareness. I used to always think intelligence was one-dimensional, I really cared about where I thought I was on this scale, now I see it as being ∞-dimensions. Sure, there are some standard tests we can use on humans to determine their ability to problem solve or do various coding challenges, but those tests are narrow. 

I like to say everyone is a genius, when it comes to their life experience. If you're patient enough to listen every human can teach you a lesson. I also muse with the possibility of the village idiot becoming the new savant thanks to AI. Ultimately, where we are headed the future 'genius' is unknown, and humans are not equipped to access them. Longer term, AI will be the only judge of what actually matters when it comes to human super-competency. I like this, because it tears up the standard resume. It means that someone with a PhD in neuroscience might actually be less competitive than the ambitious Uber driver in Dallas from Uganda who just needs to be enabled with a new 🥕 .

Dear r/LinkedLunatics,
I love that I live rent free in the minds of so many members of your community. I love knowing none of you will ever be able to run as far as I do in the mountains, invent at the pace that I'm capable of, or live life as a ridiculous outlier as I do. Every time I show up in your community, I take joy knowing that you are festering with my existence. Looking forward to many more posts where you feel compelled to engage and what I say/do bounces around in your simple keyboard troll minds. 

For those that don't know this community, they became famous when one of their members was caught commenting on the appearance of women on this platform. Degrading them, sexualizing them, only to be caught by accidentally sharing a screenshot that gave away their true identity. So when I think of this community, I think of a group of wanna-be ass grabbers, who have nothing better to do than tear down those that do.

Spam trick, add an Emoji to your name on LinkedIn, then make an email filter to never see your emoji in an email.

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I'm at the SLC airport, working, getting ready to head to Dubai. 
My 17th trip in 4 years.  If any of you are in the region I'll be speaking at:
http://aifest.ae/

For AI/business leaders, schedule permitting (filling up my calendar now), happy to come and speak to your engineering teams about what I've learn over the last year consuming ~25B tokens for coding agents. The pitfalls, the miracles, best practices, ideas gone wrong, ideas gone right... really right, all of it. And.. happy to show you examples of code that your humans will never be capable of writing, and explain why. #superhumancode

AMA

People who do high volume coding with AI often complain about 'fallbacks', where agents will catch exceptions and quickly patch with a moronic fallback. This can be back up libraries, dummy models, and even synthetic data... beyond stupid. You might get mad at AI, but... 

It makes you wonder? Was it trained with some of the worst human Q/A engineers in the world? My test isn't passing... there we go. This isn't installing... fixed. I can't find this dataset... this will do. Imagining the Q/A engineer that would behave this way makes you wonder, do they exist? If they do, I bet it’s the same people who leave dog poop in plastic bags on walking trails. 

Or is AI just making up some of the most terrible fallback short cuts to satisfy bugs? I've seen this bad behavior in all LLM providers.

Words can't describe how much I love the work I do. I can't type fast enough, I can't ask fast enough. I often will have 4-5 parallel threads of work that I'm managing, if only my brain could handle more. In the future as agents level up, it will. Working in the field I work in, with the technology vertical we are chasing is like waking up for Christmas daily. To review algorithms, and insights that I would never be able to produce on my own regardless the time, pressure, or budgets, is inspiring. 

Once when I was giving a talk to college students (I like giving talks to college kids, taught in a box, ready to break out, brains are like playdough). I think it was Berkley or Harvard, can't remember. I told them.

"When you do a startup, I hope you do, you need to find an idea that is so big you're willing to fail"

"What do I mean by fail? You need to be willing to foreclose on your home, have your cars reposed, max out every card you can get access to. Worry about your banking card clearing when you're buying gas and food. Where you need to awkwardly beg your friends and family for favors and emergency loans."

The college kids faces... eyes wide... 

Then I went back to the idea. If you aren't willing to endure that, then the idea wasn't big enough. I'm not talking about big enough for your professor! Your friends! Your parents! For YOU! Too often people want validation on their ideas, the best founders I know needed none. They were determined to chase the heroes journey despite head winds from their tribe. Parents and friends telling them they were stupid, and should get a real job. Find that idea big enough for you, the idea burning a hole in your head. The idea that is beyond passion, beyond obsession, entering the realm of purpose. 

For me, I have that idea, and couldn't be happier.

For all my 'fast typers' out there in Antigravity, Cursor, Claude, Chrome, etc... who are on Macs. I'm sure you have accidentally in your typing storm pressed Command+Q and closed your application. Very upsetting, well... you can change that close command on all your applications to Command + Option + Q (or any custom command). Now? Type faster!

Flights, time to think when the internet sucks. Qatar Airways was a dream my last trip with Starlink 100-150mbs down the entire time with great latency. I felt like I was (nearly) home in my office. Emirates.. gave the 2014 feeling with Onair 10-12mbs down experience with constant outages. I'm surprised more airlines don't get with the times, especially with those of us that work 24/7. In the future I'm going to call ahead to check if the plane I'm committed to has Starlink or not. 

During my thinking time, I was thinking more about the vast majority of the world is not ready for AI and will never be. You have toe dippers, and you have sprinters. The sprinters are leveling up every day, moving past 10x engineers and into territories that feel mythical. All of the 'vibe coding' nightmares are getting fixed, the wack-a-mole game is being won. Every problem found has a solution. Also, new technologies keep showing up that provide huge strides forward. 

I think a year from now, the toe-dipper engineers will be cave men compare to aliens. Are you a cave man? Or are you becoming an alien? What is your favorite tool/trick that makes you feel like you have more control over the chaos?

Anna Litvak-Hinenzon, PhD

Georgetown University

Developing curriculum and teaching AI product and solution development and management at the GU SCS AI Management online Master's program.

Adjunct Professor and AI SME

al-tech.ai

AI Strategy and Training for organizations, including:
- AI Readiness Audit
- AI Implementation at scale
- AI Product development and management

- AI Training & Teaching for Leaders & Executives
- Field CTO/CPO and AI Advisory Services Delivery
- Keynote Speaking on AI Evolution, Strategy, and Implementation

Chief AI Product Strategist

Harvard Business Review

HBR Advisory Council Member.
As a member of this research community, I provide insight to shape the content that HBR develops and enrich the understanding, perspectives, and ideas on leadership and management, particularly in the spaces of Technology, Product, and AI.

Advisory Council Member

Hyphenate

Hyphenate is an AI startup providing groundbreaking software for generating proposals, SOWs, RFPs, and solutions of outstanding quality super-fast. Check it out!

Board Director

Chief

Chief is a private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. Chief is the only organization specifically designed for senior women leaders to strengthen their leadership journey, cross-pollinate ideas across industries, and effect change from the top-down.

Founding Member

Pavilion

Executive Member

AI Accelerator Institute

Connecting and empowering passionate AI infrastructure innovators. Keynote speaking about AI strategy, challenges, and implementation. Boston Chief AI Officer Summit and Generative AI Summit Chairperson and Moderator. 

Skills: Thought Leadership · Large Language Models (LLM) · Content Creation · AI Thought Leadership · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Generative AI · Communication · Machine Learning · Public Speaking

Pro Member

Thomas & Taylor Search Partners

Executive Search as an Unlimited Partnership with No Client Risk.

Over 40 years of combined experience in placing Top-Tier Executives, CEO, CxO, President, VP, GM, and Board roles in the Innovative Technology markets. TTSP, as a Boutique Executive Search firm, consistently ranks among the Top 3, specializing in PE/VC Customized Talent Strategy, with a commitment that revolves around delivering a Precise Talent Match for client’s organizational challenges.

TTPS uses cutting-edge innovative AI technologies, transparent data, and machine learning to identify and place top-performing leaders for executive-level positions with an average time to fill under 60 days.

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Advisory Board Member

The RepTrak Company

Lead an organization with 2 departments of 50+ to deliver client-centric AI products. Manage P&L and multi-million annual budget. Own vision, strategy, execution, and deployment of data & AI products and solutions for a SaaS Platform. Direct conceptualization and design prototypes, AI/ML engineering, analytics, UX/UI, and product lifecycle management (PLM) from vision to launch. Drive product innovation and go-to-market (GTM) strategy. Execute and deliver innovative AI-powered products using agile methodologies with over 45% efficiency increase and 70% cost reduction.

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP:  Member of executive leadership team. Report to CEO. Manage P&L. Work with executive leadership to define company strategy, product goals, and annual budget. Craft roadmaps & positioning. Present to the Board regularly.

TEAM LEADERSHIP: Hire, mentor, and motivate top talent across two departments with up to 50 results-oriented employees and consultants. 

PRODUCT LEADERSHIP: Lead innovative AI products & solutions featuring Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLM), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Deep Learning to disrupt the industry with cutting-edge innovation. Utilize a revolutionary leadership strategy to accelerate the prototype to launch timeline. Implement metrics-driven product delivery with KPIs & OKRs.

BUSINESS STRATEGY:  Collaborate with the executive team on defining corporate strategies. Lead digital transformation and change management. Instrumental in delivering 15% YoY revenue growth, 30% valuation increase, and growing EBITDA to positive.

AI/DATA/TECH/PRODUCT ROADMAPS:  Create roadmaps for data & AI products and platforms, client offerings, automation, AI/ML engineering, MLOps, and lead agile product development, positioning, GTM strategies, and feature releases.

RepTrak is the industry leader in reputation intelligence, ESG perception decisions, and brand-reputability-driven management of business outcomes strategy.

Senior Vice President (SVP), Global Data & AI Product

Head of Global Data Science across six offices around the world, headquartered in Boston. 
We are proving with data that doing and saying the right thing is good business. 
Good business. Better world.

Build a new Data Scince department from the ground up by centralizing, globalizing and hiring top Data Science, Analytics, and ML/AI engineering talent. Lead digital transformation to transform the company from services to SaaS/DaaS. Launch data platform.

MANDATED DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION:  Led digital transformation, globalization, and change management. Successfully moved company from professional services to SaaS/DaaS tech and services. 

DATA PLATFORM LAUNCH:  In 5 months, co-led launch of SaaS/DaaS platform integral to Board-mandated digital transformation. Designed and launched a data & insights platform with monthly releases of new and innovative features.

PRODUCT LEADERSHIP:  Drove the creation of products, solutions, and metrics (KPIs & OKRs) to provide innovative thought leadership for customer-facing product development.

VENDOR MANAGEMENT:  Negotiated contracts significantly reducing annual costs and overheads.

USA & EUROPEAN PATENTS:  Worked with a patent lawyer to write/submit/defend 5 patents in the US and Europe.

VP, Global Data Science

Tessella

Led client partnerships, teams, and award-winning Analytics and AI projects ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, across various industries including Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Pharma, and Energy.

Owned strategic client relationships with F500 companies. Directed up to 30 direct/project reports across 15 projects. Led client Digital Transformation strategy, and Analytics and AI/ML projects and product prototyping. Managed client expectations, project budgets, solution design, and development. 

BUSINESS STRATEGY: Partnered with Sales & Account Management to engage F500 clients in partnerships of Digital Transformation and Data Science projects for developing innovative AI products. Crucial to yearly analytics partnerships revenue growth of over 20%.

CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT:  Met with client sr. tech and business management. Gathered requirements, presented proposals, demos, and concepts, and gained client approvals. Transitioned key clients to long-term $Multi-Million partnerships.

PRODUCTS & PROTOTYPES:  Partnered with client teams to build AI solutions and develop prototypes and data products. Strategized project scopes, budgets, and timelines with client sr. leadership. Led internal and joint efforts to deliver market-new products. Main examples include: Poultry feed prediction with AI; Tumor shrinkage digital studies powered by machine learning; Inter-drug interaction prediction with ML/AI; App to detect underwater oil pipe damages from video with deep learning; AI product to detect social behavior improvements resulting from a medication; Wearables data app to detect efficacy of skin remedy with AI/ML.

Sr Director, US, Data Science Partnerships (Field CTO)

As an AI product & technology executive recognized for visionary solutions across industries, my mission is to evangelize data and AI usefulness to companies and clients by articulating the underlying business value and making the prototype-to-product journey seamless and scalable. 

I bring a unique combination of product, technology & AI expertise, executive leadership, and organizational change management through digital transformation & leading teams. 

My passion is building top-talent teams, excellence centers, and products from the ground up. My superpower is the ability to develop vision and strategy, followed by leading the execution of innovative, market-new data science & AI/ML-powered products. 

My strong technical background, combined with PLM strategy and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, enables me to envision the value, identify the possible, and direct agile development, GTM preparation, and launches. My greatest joy has been launching and growing results-oriented departments. I had the privilege of establishing analytics business units, centralizing data scientists and product/project managers, and, through strategic hiring of top data science and ML/AI engineering talent, launching a new department with 40+ members within 12 months. I am proud of facilitating the development of a collaborative and inclusive culture focused on mentoring and internal promotions with a commitment to DEI, which helped achieve retention of +95%.

Executives at multiple companies value my ability to lead operational and digital transformations. I drive companies to gain maximum business value from enterprise data assets by envisioning, designing, and executing data platforms and AI/ML-powered products. My teams provide top value by architecting solutions across data science, engineering, machine learning, automation, governance, agile SDLC, PLM, and deployment. My insights are crucial to building innovative software products powered by AI and training customer-facing teams on presenting these to markets.

In addition, I initiate and drive efforts to improve vendor management, product and service margins, and intellectual property (IP) portfolios. I identify and negotiate with vendors to improve data quality and reduce costs and overheads. As an inventor of 11 patents, my work has been instrumental in building IP portfolios. 

I am a speaker & panelist on AI products and women in Tech at conferences, and I am a Boston founding member of Chief. My volunteering corporate contributions include Board membership, mentorship, and leadership on DEI across companies.

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