Data Engineering · Automation · AI · Technology Leadership

I build and run the systems that keep an operation working.

Local to Lake County. Eight years in enterprise data, now running real businesses on software I built, and current on AI and automation.

I spent eight years as a data engineer, most of it at Wells Fargo building the security and compliance reporting the regulators required across the bank. I led the effort that solved a vulnerability problem several teams had failed at, by getting people across the org on one approach. I have founded a company and run a team, and today I run six rental units and a coffee shop in Leadville on systems I built and maintain. I also build and run production AI and automation with human approval and guardrails, so I know how to modernize an operation without breaking it. I know regulated data, security, and audit. I know how to cut the manual work that eats a budget. And I live here.

Jason Erickson
8 yrs
enterprise data engineering at Wells Fargo: security, compliance, and audit reporting
2,800+
hours of manual work I automated in my first year there
$1.8M
company I founded and ran with a team of four
20+ teams
across the bank ran on the risk dashboards I built

Selected work

What I've built and led

Regulated data systems, a company I founded and ran, and the automation and AI I use to run real operations today. Every number below is real.

Enterprise security and compliance reporting

Built the bank's regulator-required vulnerability reporting and led the fix several teams had failed
Wells Fargo · 8 years · Data Engineer, then Senior
The problem

The bank had to prove to its regulators which of thousands of applications carried known security vulnerabilities, including Apache Struts, the flaw behind the Equifax breach. Several teams had tried to get a reliable count and failed. Without it, the bank could not report progress to the OCC or tell owners what to fix.

What I did

I built the SSIS and SQL pipelines that pulled data from the security scanning platforms into one governed picture that met the auditors' bar. On the Struts problem, I pulled the team together, mapped where every past attempt broke down, and worked across the scanning groups to agree on what actually counted as embedded. Then I built the reporting that tracked remediation across the org every week, and the Tableau dashboards the risk teams ran on.

The result

A working enterprise-wide scan and a weekly report leadership could take to the regulators. A problem that had stalled for years got unstuck, mostly because I built the cross-team relationships to get everyone on one definition. More than 20 risk teams used the reporting I built, and I automated over 2,800 hours of manual work in my first year.

Passed OCC governance
20+ teams on my reporting
2,800+ hrs automated in year one
SSISSQL ServerETL pipelinesTableaudata governanceOCC compliancecross-team leadership

Mobile Ad Point

Founded it, hired and ran the team, automated the work
2012 to 2016 · Founder · team of four
The problem

I wanted a job running mobile user acquisition, didn't get it, so I built the business myself. We ran ad campaigns for iOS and Android apps. Running them meant eight hours a day of logging into ad systems, matching offers by country, and babysitting them.

What I did

I hired and ran a team of four, and I built a Python automation that hit the ad-network APIs directly, found the offers that fit our traffic, launched them, and checked every one before it ran. It erased the eight-hour grind, and I licensed it to other companies as a product.

The result

Grew it to $1.8M over four years, drove more than a million users, and turned my own internal tool into revenue. It was the first time I ran a team and a P&L, and I did both.

Ran a team of four
1M+ users driven
Internal tool → product
Pythonad-network APIsREST integrationsteam leadershipP&L ownership

MileHigh AI pricing engine

AI and automation I run in production, with a human approving every decision
2025 to present · Built and run solo
The problem

Pricing six rental units by hand was a guess. It missed booking pace and demand, so some months filled below market and slow dates were caught too late.

What I did

I built a system that reprices every night and the moment a booking or cancellation hits. The math decides the move and an AI layer reads the signals and explains it in plain language. Nothing changes a live price without my approval, and it learns from every booking. It runs on Postgres and serverless functions and pushes rates to Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking in seconds.

The result

Running about 40 percent ahead of our best year ever, with four months still to go, and weekly pricing work went to zero. The point for a county: I know how to bring AI and automation into a real operation safely, with guardrails and a person approving the calls, not a black box.

Human-approved AI, guardrails first
Reprices nightly + on booking
Pricing work hours → zero
Supabase / PostgresDeno Edge FunctionsGPT-4o (advisory)Twilio SMS approvalchannel APIshuman-in-the-loopclosed-loop learning
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Direct booking platform

Built the payment platform, and I run the operation it serves
The problem

The booking platforms take about 15 percent and own the guest. Direct bookings leaked money because we sent payment links after confirming and guests would not pay, and some showed up having never paid.

What I did

I built a pay-to-book platform on Square where the guest pays before the reservation exists. On my approval it captures payment, blocks the dates across every channel, and sends a branded confirmation, and it runs the whole booking lifecycle on a live KPI dashboard.

The result

246 bookings at 100 percent payment compliance, the unpaid stays gone, and about $13K in platform fees reclaimed. It is now my second-biggest booking channel.

100% payment compliance
~$13K fees reclaimed
Now the #2 channel
Square Web PaymentsSupabaseEdge FunctionsTwilioSendGridReact dashboard

I run real operations here, and I build my way through them.

The systems are half of it. I live in Lake County and run real businesses in Leadville and Twin Lakes, and I tend to build the thing myself, digital or not.

I general-contracted my own house at 9,700 feet, on site daily with the crews, running budget, contractors, and inspections, and building the finish carpentry myself.
I built and run a coffee shop in Leadville from an empty lodge lobby, the electrical, plumbing, cabinets, health-department sign-off, POS, and menu, now at 178 five-star reviews.
I run six rental units across Twin Lakes and Leadville on the pricing and booking systems above, so the operation mostly runs itself.
The house I built in the Rockies, above Twin Lakes, Colorado

How I work

Data, automation, and the judgment to lead it

Data & systems
SQL (my strongest skill), SSIS and ETL, data quality and audit, Postgres and Supabase, Tableau and BI, APIs and integrations. Regulator-grade data mindset from eight years in banking.
Automation & AI
Production automation and serverless functions, LLMs (GPT-4o, Claude) used with human approval and guardrails, closed-loop learning. Current on where AI helps and honest about where it does not.
Leadership & operations
Led cross-team initiatives that unstuck multi-year problems, founded and ran a company with a team and a P&L, and run several local businesses today, hands-on with budgets, vendors, and getting things finished.

Let's talk.

I'm applying to lead and modernize Lake County IT. I know regulated data and security, I automate the manual work that eats a budget, I am current on AI, and I live here. Open to data engineering and technology leadership roles more broadly.