Jacob Critch

Use your brain to help patients, let ours do the rest. (Neo Batch 4) Nursing AI that connects to your EHR and handles the busywork — so you can get off your computer and back to saving lives. - Hire #1. Shaping early-stage product, engineering, AI and sales efforts from the ground up. - Fundraising & GTM - Engineering recruitment (interviews + developing hiring process) - Helped close customer deals with forward-deployed engineering and sales demo support

Following a $20 million Series A funding round in January 2024, I joined as one of the first ~10 engineers. Full-stack developer building tools to enable lawyers to draft and review contracts 10x faster with AI. Pushing LLM’s beyond “chat” to generate complex document review UI and draft full contracts and clauses, respond to redlines, cite references, etc. - Led complete overhaul of product UI/UX leading to massive boost in retention by simplifying the user journey into three clear use cases. - Lead engineer on Growth team: created automated activation, onboarding, and retention email flows and scheduled jobs (backend, BullMQ, Loops.so). - Left amicably to join founding team of new startup.

Songflow provides musicians with tools to create songs collaboratively in real-time and fuel their creativity with AI music generation & voice transformation. - Leading the company as CEO and serving as tech lead. - Developed first of its kind collaborative audio editing and project management platform (Web, Mobile). - Reached hundreds of free and paid monthly active users. - Successfully raised angel fundraising round allowing us to hire developers. - Project management & technical leadership of team of junior devs, designed and prototyped product features and architecture, implemented full-stack web and native mobile applications with real-time collaboration, bleeding-edge AI for audio processing and generation, optimization for scale. - Conducted user interviews with both amateur and world class music industry professionals. - Ran automated A/B outbound sales pipeline targeting ICPs (Apollo), successfully booked and conducted demo/sales calls and in-person meetings. - Tracked activation and retention metrics and ran growth experiments (Mixpanel, Fullstory). - Partnerships and pilots with major music publishing firms & educators (Universal Music, etc.) - Final 5 in Mel Woodward Cup startup competition. - Participated in Creative Destruction Lab & Propel startup accelerators.

Video game programming and project management (specializing in Audio) across all titles company-wide. C#, Unity, WWise, Typescript, PlayFab, Azure - Major gameplay feature design, implementation, and testing. - Liaison between development teams and audio providers - Creation of events, triggers, RTPC/Switches and more in WWise - Audio/WWise programming in Unity/C# - Production of audio and music Titles: - Project Winter - The Walking Dead: Betrayal - Diebrary - Unannounced title

https://www.summit-pcb.com Special Software Projects - R&D -- Architecture and implementation of NIST and ITAR compliant next-gen customer portal and services. - Architected real-time database (postgres) event notification microservice, and managed it’s deployment on Azure VM, Azure EventGrid, and Azure Functions. - Worked alongside IT/Compliance partners to architect and deploy a modern, fully-compliant, GCC-High Azure cloud environment which leverages the power of serverless whilst ensuring the security of sensitive (ITAR) customer data. - Implemented 2FA authentication (Okta FEDRAMP) and authorization to secure endpoints and validate requests. - Redesigned and decluttered API to be more elegant, maintainable, and ready for third-party customer integrations. - Building modern user-interfaces in React (functional components, hooks, Material design) and scalable backend infrastructure in Node and Azure, integrating with third-party services such as Okta, SendGrid, Twilio. -- Leading design, development, and deployment of scripts and internal tools to greatly improve efficiency and QoL across multiple manufacturing facilities. - Designed and deployed an intelligent notifications framework which automatically updates employees on new order information, reducing need for worker-to-worker communications by at-least 80%, and greatly improving accuracy. - Designed and implemented a Dropbox-like background process (in Python) that watches a remote directory and extracts/moves/organizes dropped customer order files into the appropriate destination, and sends a confirmation email to the relevant staff - increasing the efficiency of an everyday task by 900x. - Architected, proposed, and developed internal web application to submit and visualize financial reports across multiple manufacturing facilities. Built using a progressive stack of Remix.run, Typescript, Tailwind, Prisma, Docker, Azure Functions, Azure Postgres DB, Cypress.

Cardiovascular MR and CT postprocessing software for Mac and Windows - Full-stack developer on 'cvi42' in React (TypeScript, Redux, Jest), GoLang, C++. — Designed and developed web login page, both frontend and backend, using TypeScript with Hooks and Redux, SCSS for styling, and Go with Gin to create backend routes to validate the provided credentials and respond with a time-expiry session token for authorization. — Developed new and refactored existing TypeScript frontend components and Redux functions to be elegant and maintainable. — Wrote extensive unit tests for every feature I implemented (nearly 100% code coverage). — Fixed bugs in legacy C++ codebase. — Gave and received detailed PR reviews, ensuring adherence to strict medical safety regulatory requirements. — Brainstormed and created tickets for new user stories on a biweekly basis. Participated in and led sprint planning, review, retrospective meetings. — Was involved collaboratively in major architectural discussions and decisions with senior architects and engineers. — Presented our team’s work in monthly System Demo meetings. — Company was acquired leading to my role being terminated in mass layoff.

(inspectAR was acquired by Cadence Design Systems) https://www.inspectar.com team Overlaying every aspect of a design directly onto the circuit board with augmented reality, inspectAR enables interactions with circuits intuitively. - I worked on the inspectAR client app (C#, Unity, Objective-C, etc.) along with several microservices (GoLang, C++) and internal tools. - Independently led the research and development of an Objective-C library to enable use of an iPhone camera (over USB) as a remotely-controllable 1080p camera (pan, zoom) within Unity Engine.

https://projectwinter.co/ Worked on the Project Winter programming team. Building and pushing out features each sprint to our thousands of daily active users. - I worked on all aspects of the application (Gameplay, AI, Multiplayer Networking / VoIP, 3D Physics, Optimization, Third-Party Integration (PS4, Xbox, Discord, Corsair iCUE, etc), UI, Audio) in C#/Unity & write internal tools using Python. (April 2019 to Sept 2019, May 2020 to April 2021)

Provided user experience feedback, testing and logging bugs on several major video game projects using Agile/JIRA. (Summer 2015 & Summer 2016)

Thesis: Comparison of Reinforcement Learning Hyperparameters in the 3D Game Rocket League