Austin, TX · Open to relocation / travel

Jesse Montemayor

Forward Deployed Engineer

I embed with customers, find the real workflow problem, and ship working software against it. 8+ years of enterprise technical sales and solution engineering across storage, cloud, and SaaS, now paired with hands-on Python, FastAPI, and applied-AI engineering.

About

Enterprise credibility. Engineering hands.

Forward deployed roles need someone who can walk into a customer's environment, understand their actual problem, and build software against it on a short feedback loop. That's the combination I bring — a decade of enterprise technology sales and solution engineering, now backed by hands-on software and AI/ML delivery.

Customer-facing DNA

8+ years running discovery, demos, and competitive positioning inside enterprise accounts at HPE, Sirius Computer Solutions, and BILL.com. I know how to sit in a room with a skeptical technical buyer, ask the right questions, and figure out what actually has to be true for a deal — or a deployment — to work.

Builder mentality

Over the past year I taught myself to build, not just sell: Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, multimodal LLM integration, and applied ML — shipped as working prototypes, not slideware. Every project below is code I wrote and pushed myself.

Speed across unfamiliar domains

From a wearable AI assistant to MLOps reproducibility pipelines to telecom churn models, I go from zero context to a working demo fast. That is the muscle forward deployed work actually requires: show up, learn the domain, build the thing.

Skills

What I bring to the table

A blend most engineers don't have and most sales professionals don't have either.

AI / Software Engineering

PythonFastAPIREST APIsLLM & multimodal integrationPrompt engineeringStructured outputsGit / GitHubAutomated testing (pytest)Android / Kotlin collaboration

ML / MLOps

TensorFlowscikit-learnClassification & transfer learningData pipelinesDVCModel evaluationReproducibilityPandas / NumPyJupyter

Customer-Facing & Enterprise

Technical discoverySolution sellingProduct demosCompetitive positioningSaaSCloud & hybrid ITEnterprise storageChannel / VAR sales
Projects

Shipped, working, open source

Every project here is real code in a real repository — not a mockup. Click through to the source.

Flagship

Custom Meta AI Glasses

Persistent AI project assistant / multimodal wearable AI

A local-first AI assistant with application-owned context — not model conversation memory. FastAPI backend with deterministic context retrieval, structured Project/Activity/Checkpoint state, evidence provenance, and multimodal Investigation workflows that fuse screenshot evidence and spoken context into concise, glasses-ready guidance.

PythonFastAPIOpenAI multimodalSession memoryREST APIDashboard
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Customer Churn MLOps Pipeline

Reproducible ML workflow with Git + DVC

An MLOps demonstration project separating source code (Git) from data and model artifacts (DVC) so a teammate can clone the repo, run dvc pull, and reproduce an identical trained model and metrics — the reproducibility discipline that matters more than the model itself.

PythonGitDVCpytestReproducibility
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Megaline Plan Recommendation Engine

Supervised classification for telecom plan upsell

Classifies prepaid subscribers into Smart vs. Ultra plans from monthly usage behavior. Compared Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, and Random Forest with manual hyperparameter search; final model hit 79.8% test accuracy against a 75% target and a 69.4% majority-class baseline.

Pythonscikit-learnRandom ForestModel tuning
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Bank Customer Churn Classifier

Imbalanced classification with upsampling

Predicts bank customer churn from 10K records, addressing ~80/20 class imbalance via class weighting and upsampling. Random Forest with upsampling was the best performer: F1 ~0.61 (exceeding a 0.59 threshold) and AUC-ROC ~0.86.

Pythonscikit-learnImbalanced dataRandom Forest
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Megaline Revenue Analysis

Statistical EDA on prepaid plan revenue

Exploratory and statistical analysis of the same Megaline subscriber base to determine which prepaid plan — Smart or Ultra — generates more revenue, pairing directly with the plan-recommendation classifier above.

PythonPandasStatistical testingEDA
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Instacart Market Basket Analysis

Customer ordering behavior at scale

Exploratory analysis of the Instacart 2017 grocery dataset covering order timing, product/department popularity, and reorder behavior, with business-focused findings on cart composition patterns.

PythonPandasMatplotlibEDA
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Experience

Enterprise track record

A decade in enterprise technology sales and solution engineering, across SaaS, cloud, and infrastructure — the customer-facing foundation this pivot is built on.

Sales Specialist / Sales Executive

Mar 2021 – Apr 2022

BILL.com · Houston, TX

  • Sold SaaS accounts-payable automation through consultative discovery and tailored demos focused on reducing manual AP workflows.
  • Consistently achieved 100% quota attainment; trained junior BDRs on prospecting, discovery, cold calling, and pain-point identification.

Technical Sales Specialist — Storage / Hybrid IT

Jul 2018 – Feb 2021

Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Dallas–Fort Worth, TX

  • Subject-matter resource for enterprise storage and hybrid IT, focused on HPE Nimble; positioned against Dell EMC, NetApp, Nutanix, Pure Storage, and AWS.
  • Partnered with field/inside sales, channel partners, and VARs to develop opportunities; consistently exceeded sales targets and trained sellers on technical positioning.

Client Executive

Jan 2016 – Apr 2018

Sirius Computer Solutions · Dallas–Fort Worth, TX

  • Managed consultative sales engagements spanning enterprise infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, storage, security, and data center solutions.
  • Aligned customer requirements with multi-vendor solutions from Cisco, Dell EMC, HPE, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Oracle, Red Hat, and VMware.

Inside Sales NetApp Specialist

Feb 2015 – Dec 2015

Sirius Computer Solutions · Dallas–Fort Worth, TX

  • Specialized in enterprise storage/data center solutions, conducting discovery with IT leaders and partnering with engineering resources on NetApp, EMC, HPE, Dell, and IBM opportunities.
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