Jared Rand

Founder of Skillenai. I build production ML, NLP, and LLM systems — and the labor market data platform behind these pages.

What I've been working on

Skillenai: Founder. Building a labor market data platform that indexes job postings, scholarly papers, and news to surface skill demand and trends.
Zylo: Senior Manager, AI Engineering (2025–present). Lead a team building AI agents and search systems over SaaS spend data — contract extraction, MCP server, conversational search.
Everstream Analytics: Senior Manager / Principal NLP Data Scientist (2021–2025). Built a multilingual news monitoring pipeline that processes ~1M articles/day, replacing a $300k/year vendor. Fine-tuned LLMs (LoRA) to lift news classification accuracy from 80% to 97%. Led a chat experience using RAG/GraphRAG with DeepEval-based evaluation.
Athenium Analytics: Senior NLP Data Scientist (2019–2021). Scoped, designed, and shipped NLP/ML solutions for an insurance product.
Toast: Senior Data Scientist (2017–2019). Helped grow the team from 0 to 6+, tech-led the fintech data science group, and co-invented seven patent applications around payments-data risk modeling.
The Knowledge Roundtable: Founder (2012–2018, acquired by Varsity Tutors). A tutoring marketplace with ~90k tutors and ~10k students. Built the search engine, payments, and the industry's first predictive tutor pricing model.

AI agentsRAG / GraphRAGvector search & embeddingsLLM fine-tuning (PEFT, LoRA)NER & document processinglabor market data