Jared Messenger

Software Development Manager, HealthAI & HealthImaging

2024 - Current

Responsible for the strategy and execution for new imaging features in the Health Care, Life Sciences space.

SSM Software Development Manager

2022 - 2024

Managing an engineering team that delivers new products in the compliance, operations, and secure instance management space.

Head of Software Engineering - Seed Group

2019 - 2022

Managing Engineer on multiple incubator products. Led a team that built a real-time, video editing and collaboration web app for content creators. This included backend video processing to detect and prevent TOS abuse such as storing copyrighted material. Architected a health and wellness platform used by developers and consumers. This provided simple and secure access to peripheral device data (e.g. webcam) to run ML models and publish insights. Wrote dozens of technical specifications that led to patents and new products. Collaborated with the Product Security Board on crypto best practices. Worked with Privacy to make sure new products and features are globally compliant. Designed and managed critical finance, tax and transaction systems used for SEC reporting. Presented quarterly demos to c-suite leadership on product progress. Supported acquisition integrations.

Founder & CTO

2017 - 2021

Personalized live sports broadcasts using real-time computer vision. Managed day-to-day operations, including contract negotiations, finances, and investor relations. Designed the entire infrastructure from annotating a custom ML training dataset to serving the final model on Google Cloud. Extended Tensorflow with custom C++ and CUDA kernels to speed up object detection inference by 10x. Converted multiple arxiv papers to Tensorflow and Keras models to improve product accuracy. Built internal tools used to rapidly label tens of thousands of ground truth images and game footage.

Full Stack Engineer

2014 - 2017

Enabled people to login to websites securely without the burden of remembering passwords. Led the development of the oneID iOS app with a Watch Kit Extension and Mobile Safari Extension. Wrote the unsupervised anomaly detection algorithm to catch fraudulent activity. Created an open source Python library to provide developers a simple way to secure their connected devices. Educated the Neustar IoT team on the oneID platform and cryptography best practices.

iOS Engineer

2014 - 2014

Translated designs to a fully functional iOS 8 app using Apple’s Swift, utilizing Apple's HealthKit and In-App Purchasing.

Mobile Game Software Engineer

2012 - 2014

Shipped multiple mobile games that were featured by Google and Apple. Created and maintained AWS APIs that many games used. Developed and maintained iOS plugins to extend Unity3D’s abilities. Modeled and managed SQL and NoSQL Databases (Postgresql, Redis, Cassandra) Wrangled continuous integration for iOS and Android.

Senior Technical Artist

2009 - 2012

Created a plugin in Maya that gave artists the ability to procedurally generate textured road meshes, complete with navigational AI for traffic and pedestrians. Developed the cinematic facial rig that enabled animators to lip sync to pre-recorded voice actor audio.

Character Technical Director

2009 - 2009

Developed software and creature rigs the animators used to make the characters come to life.

Technical Animator

2008 - 2009

Technical Artist

2007 - 2008

Used proprietary software to create avatars and pre-rendered video responses, used by clients at trade shows