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Jonathan R. Reed
AI Safety, Trust & Safeguards
AI Safety | Trust & Safety | Safeguards | Responsible AI Deployment
contact@jonathanrreed.com | Dallas
Summary
Sociology student and AI security builder focused on adversarial evaluation, misuse prevention, empirical research design, privacy-conscious deployment, model behavior, and human-centered risk analysis.
Researching and testing LLM behavior since 2019 across adversarial evaluation, agent security, red teaming, enterprise AI deployment, and deployable hardening.
Experience
Hello.World Consulting
Founder & AI Safety / Security Engineer
- Led AI red teaming, architecture review, and secure deployment work for client LLM systems, focusing on prompt injection, data leakage, tool misuse, and operational failure modes.
- Built private retrieval and model workflows with access controls, logging boundaries, documentation, and human-review steps so teams could adopt AI without losing control of data or process.
- Reduced exploit success and policy bypasses by 35% in tested systems and cut inference costs by 20-45% in selected deployments through local or private-cloud designs.
Populus Financial Group
AI/Project Management Intern
- Support AI initiative evaluation and deployment across business teams, helping document risks, implementation needs, and operational guardrails.
- Research emerging AI tools and automation workflows with attention to data handling, adoption failure modes, and decision quality.
The University of Texas at Dallas
Researcher, Origins of Ideas Research Lab
- Research how scientists choose agendas and how early academic or economic experiences shape later work, with emphasis on selection bias and measurement validity.
- Build and validate researcher datasets from faculty rosters, CVs, bios, publication records, and topic measures for empirical analysis.
Reed & Terry, L.L.P.
IT & Security Lead
- Deployed AI retrieval and drafting workflows in a confidentiality-sensitive environment with access controls, least-privilege permissions, patching, and restore-tested backups.
- Managed IAM lifecycle, access reviews, document-handling workflows, validation habits, and secure adoption patterns to protect sensitive legal data without blocking usable AI workflows.
Podium Education
Team Lead, AI Programs
- Teach and mentor 400+ students on practical AI use, prompt hygiene, data handling, overtrust, and risk-aware adoption across live sessions and project work.
Selected Projects
PoliBench
- Benchmark for model political profile, deviance, governance, refusal behavior, answer stability, parse quality, cost, and latency.
RAGFuzz
- Testing project for probing RAG behavior, prompt injection risk, retrieval failure cases, and unsafe tool-use paths before deployment.
JR AutoRAG
- Local/private retrieval system pattern for document-grounded AI workflows with safer handoff and deployment boundaries.
AI-Stats
- Public model-comparison dashboard for pricing, context, providers, and benchmark-style analysis.
TRACED
- Breach archive and password-exposure tool built around public data, privacy-preserving checks, and clearer incident context.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas, B.A. Sociology, Expected 2027 | EMT-B Certificate, UT Dallas/UEMR, Grade A | Wharton County Junior College, Core Curriculum, GPA 3.35
Selected Certifications & Recognition
Multi-time Gray Swan Arena top-five, delivering competition and contracted evaluations, including pre-release, non-NDA testing of GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4, Grok 4, Llama Maverick, and Kimi K2 Thinking.
IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate; Vanderbilt Prompt Engineering; Red Teaming for Generative AI; Ethics in the Age of Generative AI; PMI Ethics in Technology; Imperial Mathematics for Machine Learning; Google Cybersecurity coursework.
Skills
Jonathan R. Reed
Customer Engineering & Technical Success
Customer Engineering | Technical Success | AI Deployment | Solutions Enablement
contact@jonathanrreed.com | Dallas
Summary
Customer-facing technical builder with hands-on experience across enterprise AI deployment, secure infrastructure, research data workflows, workshops, demos, and adoption support.
Strong fit for technical success, customer engineering, AI deployment, and solutions roles that blend troubleshooting, stakeholder guidance, architecture, and production follow-through.
Experience
Populus Financial Group
AI/Project Management Intern
- Work with business, technology, and leadership teams on AI initiative evaluation, workflow discovery, project planning, and rollout documentation.
- Research automation opportunities and process bottlenecks, turning ambiguous operational needs into practical recommendations.
Reed & Terry, L.L.P.
IT & Security Lead
- Own day-to-day IT, security, web, systems, user support, vendor coordination, and workflow troubleshooting for a confidentiality-sensitive law firm.
- Set up and maintain servers, networks, endpoints, cloud services, backups, collaboration tools, permissions, and internal web workflows across attorney and staff needs.
- Built secure on-prem and cloud LLM/RAG workflows for internal retrieval and drafting support, with access controls, human review, and data-handling guardrails before rollout.
Hello.World Consulting
Founder & Technical Solutions Consultant
- Deliver AI integration, automation, and security engagements for client teams, translating ambiguous requirements into usable systems, documentation, and next actions.
- Deploy local and private-cloud LLM stacks, retrieval pipelines, and workflow automation on client infrastructure, cutting inference costs by 20-45% in selected deployments.
- Build prototypes, demos, and pilot workflows; run architecture reviews, troubleshoot failures, and turn feedback into clearer deployment decisions.
Podium Education
Team Lead, AI Programs
- Help teach and mentor 400+ students on practical AI tooling, prompt hygiene, data handling, and responsible workflow adoption across live sessions and project support.
- Partner with instructors and program leadership to surface recurring blockers, refine session flow, and support students through live sessions and 1:1 coaching.
The University of Texas at Dallas
Researcher, Origins of Ideas Research Lab
- Build and validate researcher datasets from faculty rosters, CVs, bios, publication records, and topic measures for empirical research.
The Global Career Accelerator
Product Strategy & Prototyping Intern
- Led rapid prototyping work for L'Oreal, American Eagle, Intel, and charity: water, turning loose requirements into demos, user flows, and stakeholder-ready presentations.
Selected Projects
Prompt Info
- Prompt planning workspace for token count, cost estimation, and payload inspection before model execution.
AI-Stats
- Public model-comparison dashboard for pricing, context, providers, and benchmark-style analysis.
Apple-MCPs
- MCP server collection for Apple-native workflows across Mail, Calendar, Notes, Files, Reminders, Maps, and system automation.
PoliBench
- Benchmark for model political profile, deviance, governance, refusal behavior, answer stability, parse quality, cost, and latency.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas, B.A. Sociology, Expected 2027 | EMT-B Certificate, UT Dallas/UEMR, Grade A | Wharton County Junior College, Core Curriculum, GPA 3.35
Selected Certifications & Recognition
IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate; Snowflake Generative AI Professional Certificate; Vanderbilt Prompt Engineering; Google AI Professional Certificate; Wharton AI Applications in Marketing and Finance.
OpenAI x GCA AI Professional Skills; Toastmasters Public Speaking; Top Ten - Wells Fargo x GCA Early Talent Competition; Top 15 - KeHE x GCA Early Talent Competition.
Skills
Jonathan R. Reed
Developer Relations & Technical Education
Developer Relations | Technical Education | AI Enablement | Developer Success
contact@jonathanrreed.com | Dallas
Summary
Technical educator and product-minded builder who turns AI, security, research, and web concepts into clear demos, docs, workshops, and public tools.
Strong fit for DevRel, developer education, technical community, AI enablement, and developer-success roles that need communication plus real technical depth.
Experience
Podium Education
Team Lead, AI Programs
- Teach and mentor 400+ students on AI tooling, prompt hygiene, data handling, responsible use, project execution, and career-facing technical communication.
- Presented live AI sessions, answered 1:1 student questions, and helped students turn abstract AI risk into practical habits.
- Created grading and feedback methods that reduced evaluation turnaround by 31% while improving rubric clarity and project quality.
Populus Financial Group
AI/Project Management Intern
- Create documentation, reports, and presentations that communicate AI project progress, findings, and recommendations to business, technology, and leadership teams.
- Translate stakeholder needs into clearer project plans for AI workflow evaluation, implementation, and adoption.
The Global Career Accelerator
Product Strategy & Prototyping Intern
- Led rapid prototyping sprints for L'Oreal and American Eagle, translating loose requirements into user flows, clickable demos, and stakeholder-ready presentations.
- Trained peers on practical AI use, prompt hygiene, and data handling for responsible deployment.
Hello.World Consulting
Founder & AI Tooling Consultant
- Build AI tools, local/private RAG systems, demos, and technical docs for client teams, translating messy adoption problems into usable workflows.
- Write public technical material and build open tools around AI behavior, prompt inspection, model comparison, security, and infrastructure risk.
The University of Texas at Dallas
Researcher, Origins of Ideas Research Lab
- Support scholarly research by constructing researcher datasets from public faculty materials, CVs, bios, and publication records, then validating coverage and attribution.
Reed & Terry, L.L.P.
IT & Security Lead
- Support attorneys and staff with internal IT, web, security, and AI workflows, including training, troubleshooting, permissions, and secure adoption practices.
Selected Projects & Writing
Prompt Info
- Prompt planning workspace for token count, cost estimation, and payload inspection before model execution.
AI-Stats
- Public model-comparison dashboard for pricing, context, providers, and benchmark-style analysis.
Apple-MCPs
- MCP server collection for Apple-native workflows across Mail, Calendar, Notes, Files, Reminders, Maps, and system automation.
PoliBench
- Benchmark for model political profile, deviance, governance, refusal behavior, answer stability, parse quality, cost, and latency.
Technical Writing
- Articles include Stealth Models, The Clipboard Is a Hostile Interface, Prompt Injection Is Phishing for LLMs, and The Days the Internet Dies.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas, B.A. Sociology, Expected 2027 | EMT-B Certificate, UT Dallas/UEMR, Grade A | Wharton County Junior College, Core Curriculum, GPA 3.35
Selected Certifications & Recognition
Vanderbilt Prompt Engineering; Google AI Professional Certificate; IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate; OpenAI x GCA AI Professional Skills; Toastmasters Public Speaking.
IBM Applied Software Engineering Fundamentals; GitHub Career Essentials; Wharton AI Applications in Marketing and Finance; L'Oreal UX/UI & Prototyping.
Skills
Jonathan R. Reed
Forward-Deployed & AI Deployment
Forward Deployed Engineering | AI Deployment | Customer-Facing Technical Builds
contact@jonathanrreed.com | Dallas
Summary
Deployment-focused builder who turns unclear customer and business needs into AI workflows, prototypes, internal tools, research-backed analysis, and secure operating patterns.
Strong fit for FDE, AI deployment, enablement, and applied engineering roles where teams need fast scoping, implementation, demos, documentation, and adoption support.
Experience
Populus Financial Group
AI/Project Management Intern
- Support AI initiative evaluation and deployment across business and operational teams, turning ambiguous needs into project plans, workflow docs, and launch recommendations.
- Research AI tools and automation opportunities, identifying bottlenecks and scalable solutions for cross-functional teams.
Hello.World Consulting
Founder & Forward-Deployed AI Engineer
- Scope client problems, build AI systems, and deliver implementation plans across private RAG, local LLM stacks, automation, integrations, and security reviews.
- Deploy local and private-cloud model workflows with retrieval, access boundaries, API integration, and handoff docs, cutting inference costs by 20-45% in selected deployments.
- Run adversarial testing and rollout reviews around prompt injection, data leakage, unsafe tool use, and model failure modes before production use.
Reed & Terry, L.L.P.
IT & Security Lead
- Built and maintain law-firm systems across servers, networks, endpoints, cloud services, access controls, backups, web support, and daily troubleshooting.
- Implemented on-prem and cloud LLM/RAG workflows for internal retrieval and drafting with validation steps, data-handling guardrails, and maintainable operating procedures.
The University of Texas at Dallas
Researcher, Origins of Ideas Research Lab
- Build large-scale researcher datasets from rosters, CVs, bios, publications, and topic measures for empirical research on agenda formation.
- Validate coverage, attribution, and missing-data patterns before analysis so research outputs are more reliable and explainable.
Podium Education
Team Lead, AI Programs
- Teach and mentor 400+ students on AI tooling, prompt hygiene, data handling, and workflow adoption across live sessions, project support, and 1:1 coaching.
The Global Career Accelerator
Product Engineering & Prototyping Intern
- Led rapid prototyping for L'Oreal, American Eagle, Intel, and charity: water, turning open-ended prompts into user flows, demos, and stakeholder-ready presentations.
Selected Projects
JR AutoRAG
- Local/private retrieval system pattern for document-grounded AI workflows with safer handoff and deployment boundaries.
RAGFuzz
- Testing project for probing RAG behavior, prompt injection risk, retrieval failure cases, and unsafe tool-use paths before deployment.
Prompt Info
- Prompt planning workspace for token count, cost estimation, and payload inspection before model execution.
PoliBench
- Benchmark for model political profile, deviance, governance, refusal behavior, answer stability, parse quality, cost, and latency.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas, B.A. Sociology, Expected 2027 | EMT-B Certificate, UT Dallas/UEMR, Grade A | Wharton County Junior College, Core Curriculum, GPA 3.35
Selected Certifications & Recognition
IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate; Snowflake Generative AI Professional Certificate; IBM Applied Software Engineering Fundamentals; Vanderbilt Agentic AI and AI Agents for Leaders; Vanderbilt Prompt Engineering.
Wharton AI Applications in Marketing and Finance; OpenAI x GCA AI Professional Skills; Google AI Professional Certificate; Top Ten - Wells Fargo x GCA.
Skills
Jonathan R. Reed
Security Engineering
Security Engineering | AI Security | IT Infrastructure | Secure Deployment
contact@jonathanrreed.com | Dallas
Summary
Security-minded technical operator working across enterprise AI deployment, IT infrastructure, access control, AI red teaming, research data quality, and workflow hardening.
Strong fit for security engineering, application security, AI security, customer security, and infrastructure roles that value practical implementation, user support, and risk reduction.
Experience
Reed & Terry, L.L.P.
IT & Security Lead
- Own IT/security operations for a confidentiality-sensitive law firm, including servers, networks, endpoints, cloud services, backups, permissions, and support workflows.
- Implemented MFA, least-privilege access, patching, endpoint standards, access reviews, and recovery planning, reducing avoidable access and endpoint risk by 25%.
- Deployed secure on-prem and cloud AI retrieval/drafting workflows with data-boundary controls, human review, permissions discipline, and maintainable runbooks.
Hello.World Consulting
Founder & AI Security Consultant
- Lead AI red teaming, architecture review, and hardening work for LLM/RAG systems, focusing on prompt injection, data leakage, unsafe tool use, and rollout failure modes.
- Build private RAG and local LLM workflows with access controls, logging boundaries, retrieval tuning, and documentation for cleaner handoff.
- Reduced exploit success and policy bypasses by 35% in tested systems and cut third-party inference exposure through local/private-cloud deployments.
Populus Financial Group
AI/Project Management Intern
- Support AI initiative evaluation and deployment with attention to data handling, process risk, stakeholder adoption, and operational controls.
- Research emerging AI tools and automation workflows, helping identify use cases with unclear governance, weak accountability, or avoidable risk.
The University of Texas at Dallas
Researcher, Origins of Ideas Research Lab
- Validate researcher data coverage, attribution, and missingness to reduce bias in empirical measurement and downstream findings.
- Contribute to research design on how formative academic and economic experiences shape later scientific work.
Podium Education
Team Lead, AI Programs
- Teach risk-aware AI use, prompt hygiene, and data handling to 400+ students while supporting AI integrations and program operations.
Selected Projects
RAGFuzz
- Testing project for probing RAG behavior, prompt injection risk, retrieval failure cases, and unsafe tool-use paths before deployment.
PoliBench
- Benchmark for model political profile, deviance, governance, refusal behavior, answer stability, parse quality, cost, and latency.
TRACED
- Breach archive and password-exposure tool built around public data, privacy-preserving checks, and clearer incident context.
Prompt Info
- Prompt planning workspace for token count, cost estimation, and payload inspection before model execution.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas, B.A. Sociology, Expected 2027 | EMT-B Certificate, UT Dallas/UEMR, Grade A | Wharton County Junior College, Core Curriculum, GPA 3.35
Selected Certifications & Recognition
Google Cybersecurity coursework (Python automation, detection/response, Linux/SQL, network security, assets/threats/vulnerabilities); Cybrary Penetration Testing Professional; Microsoft Security Essentials.
IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate; Red Teaming for Generative AI; Docker Foundations; GitHub Career Essentials; Multi-time Gray Swan Arena top-five.
Skills
Jonathan R. Reed
Software Engineering
Software Engineering | Full-Stack Product Builds | AI Tooling & Workflow Systems
contact@jonathanrreed.com | Dallas
Summary
Full-stack builder shipping TypeScript and Python applications across AI tooling, workflow systems, research data pipelines, evaluation dashboards, and customer-facing web products.
Strong fit for software engineering roles that value product sense, debugging, secure delivery, and turning messy requirements into usable systems.
Experience
Hello.World Consulting
Founder & Full-Stack AI Engineer
- Build and ship web tools, private AI systems, retrieval pipelines, automation workflows, and implementation plans for client teams.
- Develop local and private-cloud LLM applications in TypeScript and Python, integrating APIs, model layers, and retrieval workflows while cutting inference costs by 20-45% in selected deployments.
- Translate ambiguous client problems into scoped builds, documented system behavior, and shipping plans teams can execute and maintain after handoff.
Populus Financial Group
AI/Project Management Intern
- Prototype and document AI-enabled workflows for business and operations teams, moving from tool evaluation to implementation plans and handoff materials.
- Analyze automation opportunities, workflow bottlenecks, and reporting needs that can be translated into scoped technical work.
The University of Texas at Dallas
Researcher, Origins of Ideas Research Lab
- Construct researcher datasets from faculty rosters, CVs, bios, publication records, and topic measures using repeatable validation steps.
- Check attribution, coverage, and missing-data patterns so empirical outputs are reliable enough for analysis and modeling.
Reed & Terry, L.L.P.
IT & Systems Engineer
- Build and maintain internal systems, web presence, cloud services, support workflows, and secure AI tooling for a law-firm environment.
- Manage servers, networks, endpoints, access controls, backups, and troubleshooting across business systems while reducing access/endpoint risk by 25%.
The Global Career Accelerator
Product Engineering & Prototyping Intern
- Led rapid prototyping and demo work for L'Oreal, American Eagle, Intel, and charity: water, translating loose requirements into usable flows and stakeholder-ready builds.
- Worked in short feedback cycles using AI tools, product framing, and clear presentation to move from concept to clickable prototype under deadline.
Podium Education
Team Lead, AI Programs
- Teach practical AI tooling to 400+ students and improved grading turnaround by 31% through clearer feedback methods and evaluation structure.
Selected Projects
PoliBench
- Benchmark for model political profile, deviance, governance, refusal behavior, answer stability, parse quality, cost, and latency.
Prompt Info
- Prompt planning workspace for token count, cost estimation, and payload inspection before model execution.
AI-Stats
- Public model-comparison dashboard for pricing, context, providers, and benchmark-style analysis.
Semester Builder
- Academic planning tool with import/export support, onboarding flow, conflict reduction, and a more usable semester-view workflow.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas, B.A. Sociology, Expected 2027 | EMT-B Certificate, UT Dallas/UEMR, Grade A | Wharton County Junior College, Core Curriculum, GPA 3.35
Selected Certifications & Recognition
IBM Applied Software Engineering Fundamentals; IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate; OpenEDG Python Professional; Docker Foundations; GitHub Career Essentials.
Vanderbilt Prompt Engineering; Snowflake Generative AI; OpenAI x GCA AI Professional Skills; Top Ten - Wells Fargo x GCA.
Skills
Jonathan R. Reed
Technical Generalist
Technical Generalist | AI, Security, Research & Operations
contact@jonathanrreed.com | Dallas
Summary
Technical generalist working across enterprise AI projects, research data construction, security operations, internal IT, product builds, and user-facing deployment support.
Strong fit for fast-moving roles that need broad execution, clear judgment, and the ability to move between systems, people, data, and shipped work.
Experience
Populus Financial Group
AI/Project Management Intern
- Support evaluation, implementation, and deployment of AI initiatives across business and operations teams, translating stakeholder needs into project plans and rollout docs.
- Research AI tools, automation workflows, and process bottlenecks to surface practical efficiency gains and decision-support opportunities.
The University of Texas at Dallas
Researcher, Origins of Ideas Research Lab
- Build researcher datasets from faculty rosters, CVs, bios, publication records, and topic measures for empirical research on research-agenda formation.
- Validate coverage, attribution, and missing-data patterns that affect selection bias, agenda measurement, and downstream analysis.
Reed & Terry, L.L.P.
IT & Security Lead
- Own IT, security, web support, systems administration, vendor coordination, and workflow troubleshooting for a confidentiality-sensitive law firm.
- Maintain servers, networks, endpoints, cloud services, backups, permissions, internal sites, and daily support workflows.
- Implemented MFA, least-privilege access, patching, restore-tested backups, and recovery runbooks; improved recovery readiness by 20-30%.
Hello.World Consulting
Founder & Technical Generalist
- Build AI systems, workflow tools, prototypes, and security-minded automation for client teams from discovery through implementation and handoff.
- Deploy local and private-cloud LLM stacks, retrieval pipelines, and API-connected workflows while cutting inference costs by 20-45% in selected deployments.
- Run architecture reviews and adversarial testing around prompt injection, data leakage, and operational failure modes, reducing exploit success by 35% in tested systems.
Podium Education
Team Lead, AI Programs
- Teach and mentor 400+ students on practical AI tooling, prompt hygiene, data handling, and responsible workflow adoption; reduced evaluation turnaround by 31%.
The Global Career Accelerator
Product Strategy & Prototyping Intern
- Built demos, flows, and presentations for L'Oreal, American Eagle, Intel, and charity: water under fast feedback cycles.
Selected Projects
PoliBench
- Benchmark for model political profile, deviance, governance, refusal behavior, answer stability, parse quality, cost, and latency.
AI-Stats
- Public model-comparison dashboard for pricing, context, providers, and benchmark-style analysis.
Prompt Info
- Prompt planning workspace for token count, cost estimation, and payload inspection before model execution.
TRACED
- Breach archive and password-exposure tool built around public data, privacy-preserving checks, and clearer incident context.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas, B.A. Sociology, Expected 2027 | EMT-B Certificate, UT Dallas/UEMR, Grade A | Wharton County Junior College, Core Curriculum, GPA 3.35
Selected Certifications & Recognition
IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate; IBM Applied Software Engineering Fundamentals; Snowflake Generative AI; Vanderbilt Prompt Engineering; Google Cybersecurity coursework; Google AI Professional Certificate.
Imperial Mathematics for Machine Learning; OpenAI x GCA AI Professional Skills; Microsoft Security Essentials; Top Ten - Wells Fargo x GCA; Top 15 - KeHE x GCA.