Preston Jones

Preston Jones

Software Engineer

Building large-scale data pipelines, AI/ML systems, and distributed infrastructure

About

Engineering critical infrastructure that processes 5M+ daily transactions for California's $50B energy market. I build resilient systems, intelligent data pipelines, and AI platforms that solve complex problems.

From biomedical data lakes processing terabytes of research to real-time energy trading platforms, I focus on systems that scale and deliver measurable impact.

Experience

Software Developer

PCI Energy Solutions

Aug 2024 — Present

Built mission-critical infrastructure processing 5M+ daily transactions for California's $50B energy market. Achieved 99.99% uptime implementing 30+ CAISO data feeds enabling real-time trading.

JavaApache SparkKubernetes

Software Engineer

Vast Vertex Media

Apr — Dec 2024

Developed AI platform converting research papers into interactive podcasts using LLM parsing and TTS. Led team of 5 and pitched to major publishers including Wiley and Springer Nature.

PythonLangChainFastAPI

Data Scientist

University of Oklahoma

May 2021 — May 2024

Architected biomedical data lake processing 1TB+ of drug and protein data. Built NLP pipelines for 1M+ PubMed research papers enabling breakthrough cancer research.

PythonAWS S3Neo4j

Projects

Sooner AI

2025

Co-founded non-profit AI education platform for Oklahoma K-12 students. Architected system to self-host open-source LLMs on OU's Schooner supercomputer with privacy-first approach.

LLaMA 4MistralSupercomputing

AI Politician

2025

Fine-tuned political discourse models using LoRA/Mistral-7B and RAG system with LangChain for thesis project simulating political communication styles.

PyTorchLangChainChromaDB

Technologies

Languages

JavaPythonTypeScript

AI/ML

PyTorchLangChainHuggingFace

Infrastructure

AWSKubernetesSpark

Contact

Computer Science

University of Oklahoma

Cum Laude • GPA 3.53