CV
Jesse Hawkins
AI engineer & principal architect
Experience
Wells Fargo · 2015 – present · Des Moines, Iowa
- Lead Quantitative Analytics Auditor Jun 2023 – Present
- Lead Audit Manager Jan 2022 – May 2023
- Principal Auditor Aug 2021 – Dec 2021
- Quantitative Analytics Auditor Feb 2021 – Aug 2021
- Senior Auditor Sep 2018 – Feb 2021
- Capital Markets Team Lead Oct 2016 – Aug 2018
- Capital Markets Specialist Jun 2015 – Sep 2016
Education
University of Iowa · Tippie College of Business
- MBA 2017 – 2023
- M.S., Business Analytics 2017 – 2021
- B.B.A., Finance 2013 – 2015
What I build
These days I gravitate toward modular platforms — systems designed so new capabilities snap in cleanly instead of bolting on. I like applied AI that does real work: agents, self-running pipelines, and machine-written publications with real sources and timestamps. And I like turning quantitative and financial data into things people can actually reason about.
Whatever the surface, the rules are the same — built in the open, static-first, real data or none at all.