About
Jesse Edwards
15+ years building secure systems from embedded ECUs to cloud platforms to production AI
JPMorgan Chase. DENSO. Published research. Conference speaker. Built security tools at enterprise scale, led global engineering teams, and architected production platforms from embedded systems through cloud and now AI. Founder and operator of RenovationRoute, a live revenue platform with an AI service running in production today. Working with mid-market companies, DoD contractors, and PE-backed portcos that need senior engineering leadership.
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What I Have Built
Real systems. Real scale.
JPMorgan Chase. VP Lead Cloud and Security Engineer
Built threat modeling tool that scanned Terraform and architecture diagrams. Reduced manual effort by eighty percent and caught twice as many design flaws. Led SOAR-style CI/CD security pipeline for sixty-plus mobile apps.
DENSO Innovation Lab. Principal Engineer, IoT Edge Platform
Led thirteen-engineer global team building production IoT edge platform for connected vehicles. Designed zero-trust provisioning, full observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo), deployed across one hundred-plus units.
Embedded production. Zero post-deployment bugs
Engineered real-time embedded systems for automotive ECUs. Created automated testing framework adopted across one hundred-plus engineers. Field record: zero bug fixes required after deployment.
Why You Should Trust Me
Full-Stack Credibility
Security tools at enterprise scale. Connected vehicles in production. Embedded systems with zero bugs. A production AI service I run today. Published research. Real founder experience.
Research paper published at SAE. Presented at SAE and IEEE SecDev conferences. AWS Cloud Practitioner certified.
Custom contractor marketplace with Stripe escrow, real-time chat, multi-tenant architecture, and the AI Intel Service running in production. Rails, Python, AWS, PostgreSQL. Solved my own problem as a homeowner. Now it is where every pattern I sell gets shipped, broken, and fixed first.
RFID hacking, network penetration testing, custom VPNs on Raspberry Pi, home automation with BeagleBone Black, and now production AI systems. I do not just talk about how these things work. I build and break them.
Embedded systems to cloud platforms, automotive manufacturing to financial services to AI services. Every program I have led has had security built into the architecture from the start, not added at the end.
Technical Depth
From hardware to AI
Threat modeling tools, SAST integration, CI/CD security pipelines, SOAR-style automation. I build tools that scale security across entire organizations.
OpenAI pipelines. Prompt design and evals. Output validation. Prompt injection defenses. Cost and latency tradeoffs. Async architectures for inference workloads.
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, cAdvisor, Node Exporter. Full-stack observability from edge devices to cloud microservices.
AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IoT). Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes. Designed zero-trust provisioning pipelines with mTLS and scoped IAM policies.
Python, Ruby (Rails), C and C++, JavaScript (Node.js), SQL. REST, GraphQL, MQTT, Kafka. PostgreSQL, MongoDB. I code, I do not just sketch.
Led thirteen-engineer global teams. Built tooling adopted across hundreds of engineers. I can write code and run a room.
My Philosophy. No Bullshit.
Do not need Kubernetes? I will tell you. Architecture is fine? I will say so. Do not need AI for that workflow? Same answer. The goal is to give you an honest picture, not to manufacture more work.
A CMMC assessment for a $30M defense contractor, a SOC 2 program for a $50M SaaS company, and an AI sprint for a PE portco are different problems. The approach matches the actual situation.
I write code. I deploy infrastructure. I debug production issues. You get implementation-ready solutions, not consultant vaporware.
Education and Recognition
M.S. Computer Science
Lawrence Technological University. Security and Software Engineering concentration.
Published Research
Research paper published at SAE. Presenter at SAE and IEEE SecDev conferences.
AWS Certified
AWS Cloud Practitioner. Hands on with EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IoT Core, and infrastructure automation.