
Co-Founder, Whitney AI
About the Speaker:
Jake is the Co-founder and Head of AI of Whitney AI, which builds specialized agents that improve with each interaction.
Before Whitney AI, Jake was the 1st engineer at CloudCruise (YC W24), where he worked on building a self-recovering browser agent. Prior to that, he was an early engineer at Cognitiv and an engineer at Microsoft.
This talk shares lessons from building a self-recovering browser agent for regulated healthcare workflows, where we moved from a single-agent prototype to a multi-step system with optimized inputs, memory, evals, sandboxes, and deterministic code where possible. I’ll walk through how we used production failures to build a faster evaluation and prompt optimization loop, and when to move beyond harness engineering to increasing model capability via post-training.
MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026 is a two days of case studies, workshops, and expo on taking AI/ML and agentic systems into production – at the Etter-Harbin Alumni photo – full-bleed hero or browse files.