Background

Jack started programming and studying business at thirteen. He was drawn to programming as a way to create real-world impact, using his skills to build websites for local businesses in his community. It also forced him to think from first principles, since writing code meant understanding every layer of how something worked. At the same time, his interest in business and economics gave him a different lens: how to scale that impact and build things that genuinely improve people's lives. Studying how great companies did this became a guide for his own ambitions.

At fourteen, he built an early “smart room” prototype using a Raspberry Pi and breadboard, successfully controlling an LED and exploring how to scale it to his full bedroom lighting system. That project sparked a lasting obsession with systems that bridge the digital and physical worlds.

These interests led him to study Computer Science and Economics at Dartmouth College. As he moved from small personal projects to industrial-scale systems, a pattern became clear. The infrastructure connecting software to the physical world was fundamentally broken. Existing systems struggled to scale, were not designed for modern software practices, and had no clear path into the AI era.

Jack believes the ultimate role of technology is to enable AI to manage the physical world, producing the goods and services humanity needs so people can focus more on what makes us human. It is a philosophy he first encountered on the factory floor at Tesla. The job of a great controls engineer is to replace themselves. Control Seat is that idea, scaled to an entire industry.

Outside of work, Jack is an avid hiker, a casual chess player, a passionate foodie always chasing the next great meal, and happiest when spending time with the people around him.

Experience

Jack has eight years of experience as a web developer, starting in middle school and high school building websites for local businesses.

He later served as a Controls Engineer at Tesla's Fremont Factory, where he built SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems, the software layer that monitors and controls industrial processes in real time. At SpaceX Starbase, he designed and built electrical infrastructure for Starship systems and integrated SCADA to monitor and control them.

At Amazon, Jack worked as a Software Engineer, where he built a GenAI service designed for over 1.5 million employees. This experience with large-scale distributed systems and AI gave him a unique perspective on what becomes possible when modern software meets industrial infrastructure.

At Control Seat

As CTO, Jack leads the technical architecture, engineering, and design of Control Seat. His combination of hands-on SCADA experience and modern software engineering gives him a rare perspective on how industrial software should be built.

He oversees the platform's UI and UX, cloud infrastructure, dashboard editor, and AI-assisted building experience, shaping how users interact with and control real-world systems through software.