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Kurt Jarchow

AI Strategy Consultant | 25+ Years in Software Engineering | Helping Teams Deliver Practical AI Solutions

About Me

Experienced software engineering leader with 25 years of success delivering products and guiding high - performing teams. Skilled in full - stack development with a growing focus on AI driven solutions, including language models, recommendation systems, and workflow automation. AWS Certified Developer and Solutions Architect, blending deep technical knowledge with a servant - leadership approach to drive innovation and impact.

Jurisdiction

Canada

Experience

Seniority LevelDirector
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
CONSULTANT,
2024 - Present

• Partnered with clients to analyze business needs and translate them into actionable AI and data strategies supporting marketing, operations, and customer service. • Conducted requirements gathering, stakeholder interviews, and workflow analysis to identify opportunities for process improvement and automation. • Designed and developed proof - of - concept analytics solutions, including customer segmentation, job - matching insights, and decision - support tools leveraging GPT, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and Agentic solutions.

HEAD OF ENGINEERING,
2022 - 2024

• Spearheaded the architecture and development of Imprimo's technology stack while creating best practices in code quality and security, resulting in a rock - solid startup SaaS platform. • Hired and managed a high - performing scrum team of 6 developers, fostering a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement through agile methodologies. • Core contributor for frontend and backend Typescript applications using React, React Native, Node.js, Next.js, creating 30+ custom UI components and over 40 API endpoints. • Mentorship and Growth: Mentored junior developers, providing guidance and support to foster professional growth and skill development within the team.

TECHNICAL LEAD,
2020 - 2022

• Led engineering of applications providing copyright API services used by 10+ Canadian and international partners in 3 different industry verticals. • Played a pivotal role in developing event - driven blockchain ledger application, ensuring secure and transparent management of over 200,000 digital rights assets. • Spearheaded the development and incubation of startups, including the flagship Imprimo application, which was later spun out as a successful standalone company. • Managed a team of 7 developers, fostering an agile culture and mentoring junior developers on best practices and cutting - edge technologies. • Implemented modern CI / CD using Bitbucket Pipelines, AWS Kubernetes infrastructure.

PRINCIPLE SOFTWARE ENGINEER,
2015 - 2020

• Led R&D team in developing AI - driven solutions, enhancing business operations efficiency by approximately 35% and boosting business generation using innovative communication tools. • Built serverless applications using AWS, leveraging infrastructure - as - code and event - driven technologies, including AI Python scripts in AWS Lambda for learning algorithms. • Built a comprehensive chat - based application using AWS AppSync and GraphQL, integrated with a React - based frontend, providing a seamless user experience. • Managed and mentored development teams of 4 - 12 members across Europe and India, promoting agile practices and continuous learning. • Defined and executed technical strategies for AI and consumer - facing products, ensuring alignment with business transformation goals and market demands.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER,
2008 - 2015

• Built website infrastructure on AWS, including load balanced EC2 instances running Ngnix, Varnish caching, and Lucene / SOLR search, providing services for millions in global traffic. • Developed SaaS LAMP stack applications, including PHP CMS solutions for business users. • Transforming UI designs into SEO - friendly, semantic, and performant CSS and HTML, using SASS, Bootstrap, and other modern technologies.

WEB APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER,
2004 - 2008

• Developed and designed .NET multi - tiered applications using object - oriented C#, Javascript/ AJAX, CSS, HTML for trading risk management SaaS software.

Certification

Total Certifications1

Played a key role in securing $2 million in seed capital and government grants for Imprimo,, Development of High - Profile Applications for Nonprofits:, Led the architecture, development, and production launch of two startups from concept to production in under 6 months, accelerating go - to - market timelines, resulting in successful market, and early customer adoption within 3 months., business operations efficiency by, 2 million annually., strategic technical solutions for high - profile nonprofit clients such as CARE Canada, Oxfam, United Church of Canada, UNICEF, and Credit Canada, driving their

Skills

Core skills1
Languages1

Skills

Branding, Community Development, Operations, Consulting, Cloud Computing Architecture, Data Entry, Management, Agile Leadership, Brand Strategy, Software Engineering

Languages

English