Jack Bookey
Hey I'm Jack. I'm an engineer who loves digitizing supply chains and the built world. I'm in Detroit building Nox Metals, America's first automated aluminum plate cutting operation, serving aerospace, defense, and industrial manufacturers. Previously, I led product at harva., which has raised $113M to date building the AI-native ERP and financing layer for perishables. Before that, I worked in venture capital backing enterprise tech startups, and held supply chain roles at PepsiCo and Amazon.
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- Led development of a Pydantic-based multi-agent system enabling natural language interaction with the ERP through in-app chat and WhatsApp. Built the evals + feedback-to-improvement loop with Logfire.
- Trained a robot arm to organize a desk via imitation learning on HuggingFace's LeRobot platform. Built my own eval suite and data collection loop.
- Built data pipelines at PepsiCo processing tens of millions of records nightly. Created a data mesh bridging legacy and SAP HANA forecasts.
- Sourced 50+ founders across infra and AI at Dell Technologies Capital. Originated two term sheets and one closed investment.
- Built MySurf, an app that combines buoy data, weather APIs, and personal session ratings to forecast surf quality for you. Because surf conditions aren't one size fits all.
- B.S. Industrial Engineering from Purdue. Alpha Pi Mu, Kohler Scholar, Dean's List.
Training action chunking transformer to do the highly economically valuable task of placing a kcup into a tupperware ~60% of the time