About Jack Homer
Jack Homer is a Forward Deployed Engineer at C3 AI in Redwood City, California, where he is a technical lead across U.S. Marine Corps enterprise AI programs. He builds production multi-agent systems and agentic developer tooling, and he holds a B.S. in computer science from Virginia Tech.
Engineering work and projects
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What he does
Forward-deployed work: sitting with a customer, turning a written specification into a working system, and staying with it through production. At C3 AI that has meant workforce and logistics applications for the Marine Corps, a multi-agent translation system built to a court deadline, and an agentic harness that carries development from a ticket to a reviewed pull request.
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What he builds outside work
Backpressure is a free system-design interview trainer. Other projects include a local language model that plays Pokémon, Connections Maker, a puzzle builder that stores the puzzle in its share link, and a job-application agent. The project directory has live tools and engineering write-ups.
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Where he studied
Virginia Tech, College of Engineering, B.S. computer science, cum laude.
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Where he is
The San Francisco Bay Area.
Read how Backpressure grades a system-design interview, how Claude bots run in Discord, or what happens when a language model plays Pokémon one button at a time.
The career page covers the work in detail, and the projects are all listed with write-ups. To get in touch, use the contact page.