# Jesse Bond > Principal Software Engineer | AI & ML Systems Architecture | Building Conversational AI for Mental Health at Headspace Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jessebond ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer - AI & Machine Learning Systems @ Headspace Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States Leading the design and implementation of AI-powered mental health companions at scale with a focus on rapid iteration and deployment. - Conversational AI: Architected agent based conversational system supporting context-aware mental health coaching with session memory and personalized conversations - RAG System Architecture: Designed and implemented production RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline supporting semantic search across mental health content library - Voice agents: developed a voice agent to compliment conversational AI Node, Typescript, MongoDB, AWS Bedrock, LiveKit,. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Headspace Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States Fullstack Tech lead, B2B. typescript, node, aws, react ### Senior Software Engineer @ Headspace Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Scribd Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California ### Software Engineer @ Scribd Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 ### Technical Lead @ Course Hero Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 Led the Study Tools product team as technical lead engineer. I was responsible for onboarding and mentoring team hires, architecting team projects, and code reviewing. Implemented the “Answer this Document” feature that provided a bridge between the document and tutoring products. Front-end used Flux architecture with React as the view and was written in TypeScript. ### Software Engineer II @ Course Hero Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Full-stack. Architected and led implementation for a redesigned search results page. The front-end was a complete overhaul to implement Flux architecture with React as the view and was written in TypeScript. The search platform was powered by the Google Search Appliance. ### Software Engineer I @ Course Hero Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Full-stack. Architected and implemented a distributed command queue. System allowed for a scaling worker pool to process system commands. Utilized AWS Simple Queue Service for the queuing mechanism. ### Researcher @ Lehigh University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Bethlehem PA Paid position. Part of a 3-person team hired by Professor Tiffany Li to develop a web platform for professors, teaching assistants, and students for online test taking, course discussion, and grading. Developed the web app front end. Technologies used: HTML5, CSS3, Git, JavaScript, and PHP. ### Web Development Intern @ Quitbit Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Paid position. Independently designed both front and back end of the company website from the ground up. Responsibilities included choosing and implementing web technologies, picking webhosting, planning website layout, setting up and managing databases, creating visual web-based data representation with d3.js, designed a functional user dashboard, and more. Technologies used: Python 3.x, Django 1.5, HTML5, CSS3, Adobe Photoshop, MySql, Git, JavaScript, and d3.js. ### Software Development Intern @ Simpatico Software Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Warwick, RI Paid position. Ported and tested Sybase database access and conversion scripts written in Python for deployment to the Texas Electronic Benefit Transfer program (Tx-­EBT) production systems in Austin, Texas. Source platform was DEC VMS, target platform was AIX-­UNIX. Scripts aid Simpatico software support team in diagnosing and fixing database issues and data conversion in multiple host environments. ### Software Development Intern @ Orion Technologies, Inc Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Blackstone, MA Paid position. Part of 2-­person team that wrote 100+ replacement Operations scripts in Python 2.6 for deployment to the Texas Electronic Benefit Transfer project production systems in Austin, Texas. Original scripts were written in DEC DCL, target platform was AIX-­UNIX. These scripts simplified the operations of 3 production systems that processed about 1 million transactions a day. ## Education ### BS in Computer Science Lehigh University Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### MAMS ### MAMS ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jessejamesbond --- Source: https://flows.cv/jessebond JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jessebond/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29