Jason Roell

Head of Engineering at Vurvey

Cincinnati, Ohio

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Summary

Engineering leader who builds production AI systems and the teams that ship them. I lead engineering at Vurvey, an AI platform for consumer research, and I have written about software engineering and AI on this blog since 2014.

Experience

Head of Engineering, Vurvey (formerly Batterii)

Present
  • Leads engineering for an AI platform that runs consumer research with surveys, AI personas and automated research workflows.
  • Builds and operates the platform's GraphQL API, web app and AI agent runtime on Google Cloud and Kubernetes.

Earlier roles are on LinkedIn.

Skills

  • AI engineering (LLM applications, agents, evaluation)
  • TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js
  • Python and Go
  • GraphQL APIs and PostgreSQL
  • Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Vercel
  • Engineering leadership and hiring

Selected projects

  • The Pareto Cube: A 3D Pareto frontier for the top 100 AI models, plotted on intelligence, cost per task, and time per task.
  • Curiouser: A rabbit-hole learning game themed on Alice in Wonderland. Pick a question and fall in; Claude writes each new chamber as you go.
  • MermaidStudio: A Mermaid diagram editor with a live preview and an AI Auto-Fix button for diagrams that will not render.
  • trace-mermaid: A Mermaid diagram inspector. Click a node to see everything upstream and downstream of it.
  • DevForge AI: A desktop toolbox of 30+ developer tools with AI built in. macOS download.
  • GitGang: A CLI that coordinates several AI coding agents on one task, with pair, interactive and one-shot modes.

Writing

Author of The Curious Programmer, 77 articles on software engineering and AI since December 2014.