John Stevenson

Teach For America

Denver Public Schools · Denver, CO

Middle school math + science teacher

Teaching math and science at a Title I middle school. Thirteen-year-olds: toughest technical audience I've ever had.

Pinnacol Assurance

Commercial workers' comp carrier · Denver, CO

1. Customer service rep
2. Underwriter
3. BI analyst
4. Data engineer

My teaching skills were _soo_ great, that after I year I crash landed into an insurance company answering phones. Over five years I worked my way up through underwriting and analytics into engineering, and ended up building the data pipelines for price forecasting for the whole company.

Cake Insure

High-growth insurtech startup

1. First employee
2. Data scientist
3. Director of data science

Founding employee. I built the NLP models that let quoting run on its own, then built the team behind pricing, NLP, audit forecasting and automation.

Juniper Labs

ML-powered commercial insurance SaaS · Denver, CO

Co-founder & CTO

Co-founded a B2B data and ML company. We curated a billion-row business dataset with ML, ran it all on infrastructure I built in GCP, and sold the company in 2020.

NEXT Insurance

AI-powered digital insurer · Atlanta, GA

1. Lead ML engineer, dataLabs
2. ML engineering manager
3. Head of AI engineering

Five years, three jobs. I went from building greenfield lead scoring models to leading twelve engineers across ten time zones. We launched generative search for underwriting, a human-in-the-loop policy review platform, and more than twenty production inference services.

Ontra AI

AI platform for private markets · Atlanta, GA

1. Staff ML engineer
2. Tech lead

Now I serve as the ML tech lead behind Ontra's Insight product. Developed and productionalized agentic extraction of reams of messy legal documents. With that, build and maintain a graph of legal provisions for some of the largest Private Equity firms in the world. Millions of inference calls in production every month.