Jesse-Peplinski-Resume-Anthropic

Summary

Applied AI/full-stack product engineer with senior-level ownership across 8+ years shipping customer-facing products at Equitable, a Fortune 500 financial services company. I lead enterprise platform work in React, TypeScript, and Java, redesign high-traffic pages that move real revenue, and turn ambiguous requirements into maintainable systems. I use Codex and Claude Code as a daily engineering workflow, and my recent product work includes Vibe Storefront, Gridiron Rumble, and TrySignalHire. Outside work, I directed Careers in Code across six cohorts and managed grant-backed operations.

Selected AI/Product Work

Vibe Storefront (April 2026 · MVP live within 4h · Next.js, OpenAI, Supabase/Postgres, Clerk, Codex) — Solo-built AI product-validation app; MVP was live within 4 hours, generating structured positioning, copy, imagery, public share pages, and a live gallery.

TrySignalHire (May 2026 · solo-built MVP in progress · Next.js, OpenAI, Supabase/Postgres, Clerk, Vercel) — Solo-built founder/builder MVP for AI-mediated hiring: sourced candidate claims, evidence signals, and human review.

Gridiron Rumble (March 2026 · ~1 month · Godot, Astro, Claude Code) — Solo-built 2D arcade football game shipped to playable web build and iOS TestFlight.

Experience

Software Engineer July 2017 — Present

Equitable · Syracuse, NY

Generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in business impact by leading the end-to-end redesign of the PCR Rates page, a high-traffic product page with thousands of daily views
Shipped the OBP customer portal (React, Java) to onboard new brokers from outside firms into the organization
Authored the organization's internal AI-adoption playbook — tractable problem inventory, required context, MCP server integrations for enterprise tools, and workflow patterns for daily Claude use; partnered with one peer as the organization's active daily Claude Code users
Led the migration of an Angular to vanilla JavaScript Retirement Guide, architecting the separation of content and code
Migrated 150 pages from Sitecore to Adobe AEM with zero downtime, collaborating with vendor teams to compress an originally 9-month migration plan into roughly 3 months
Drove the enterprise CMS through 3 major version upgrades (Sitecore 9.1 → 9.3 → 10.2 → 10.3), organizing data migration processes and issue tracking to ensure smooth cutovers
Led chatbot development with Microsoft Bot Framework on Azure, serving as lead engineer and managing the project backlog from prototype through MVP
Served as lead engineer across major customer-facing web initiatives, taking projects from requirements and stakeholder alignment through implementation, production launch, and post-launch reliability

Partner 2017 — Present

Hack Upstate LLC · Syracuse, NY

Directed and taught in Careers in Code, a 6-month intensive coding bootcamp for underserved populations, running day-to-day delivery across 6 cohorts (2019-2024)
Admitted 102 students, graduated 74 (72.5% graduation rate), placed 24 graduates in tech roles
Managed approximately $1.1M in grant-backed program funding across local government and economic development partners
Built admissions and operations systems from scratch, automating the pipeline end-to-end using Pipefy, Zapier, and Notion; implemented EOS for goal tracking
Organized 100+ person hackathons that brought developers, students, sponsors, and local organizations together to advance Central New York’s tech community

Education

B.S. Computer Science, Mathematics Minor 2015 — 2017

SUNY Potsdam

Benjamin F. Bradley Memorial Award — High achievement & outstanding department contribution
Founded Hack Potsdam (grew from 49 to 116 attendees, $10K raised, MLH partnership). President of ACM. GPA: 3.25
Speaker at HackCon V — "Getting Your Alumni Involved," presented to a national audience of student hackathon organizers

Technical Skills

Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Java, HTML/CSS
Frameworks: React, Astro, Next.js, Spring Boot, FastAPI, Tailwind CSS
AI & Tools: Codex, Claude Code, OpenAI API, MCP, RAG, Vercel AI SDK, tool calling, structured outputs
CMS & Enterprise: Adobe AEM, HTL, Sitecore (6+ years), JSP, Scriban
Platforms: Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD pipelines, GraphQL, REST APIs, WebSockets
Methods: Agile/Scrum, Kanban, cross-functional team leadership, influence without authority
Operations: Pipefy, Zapier, Notion, grant management