Jason Van Vuren
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
I help organizations turn ambiguous AI opportunities into practical workflows, automations and agentic workflows. My strength is understanding how people actually work, identifying the real problem behind an initial request, and rapidly building a solution that users can evaluate. With more than 30 years of development experience and deep frontend, design-system, and AI workflow expertise. I use AI-native software development to move from idea to working solution quickly.
Experience
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Deluxe
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
- →Work with AI domain champions to turn business opportunities into practical AI workflows, automations, agents, and prototypes.
- →Study how teams actually work, clarify the underlying problem, and determine whether AI, traditional automation, or normal software is the right fit.
- →Build prototypes and MVPs quickly, then determine whether a solution should remain FDE-owned or move to an engineering team for enterprise deployment.
Deluxe
Senior System Design Engineer — Unify Design System Lead
- →Co-created Deluxe's Unify design system with a UX partner and built the React component library from the ground up.
- →Defined design-system foundations including colors, typography, component behavior, accessibility, and branding principles.
- →Maintained more than 100 reusable components documented in Storybook and distributed through JFrog for npm/Yarn installation.
- →Built adoption through monthly working sessions with developers from multiple product teams, including R360, DPX, and Banker's Dashboard.
Deluxe eChecks
Web Developer
- →Owned the React and TypeScript frontend for the eChecks product over a Ruby on Rails backend.
- →Introduced a new frontend foundation and integrated it with backend APIs.
- →Built the check-upload and results experience, sending images to the backend for OCR processing and displaying the returned results.
Rider's Discount
Web Developer
- →Maintained the company e-commerce storefront.
- →Added and updated products and made small system changes.
- →Kept the storefront operating correctly.
RedVan
Demandware Developer
- →Built full e-commerce websites inside the Demandware platform, later known as Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
- →Extended a platform designed primarily for shopping carts to support complete websites.
- →Worked through significant platform limitations and integration constraints.
UTMSoft
Co-owner and Frontend Manager
- →Co-founded Under The Mountain Software with two former Mindscape colleagues.
- →Led frontend development and built the company's initial content management system.
- →Left after approximately six or seven months when the company was unable to generate enough revenue.
Mindscape
Front End Development Manager
- →Managed day-to-day web development projects, client delivery schedules, and technical execution across the department.
- →Identified and integrated emerging web standards and tooling to continuously remove departmental delivery inefficiencies.
Autonomous Agent Projects
Autonomous systems built to eliminate the routine mechanics of software development.
ADWS (Automated Developer Workflow System)
ADWS is an autonomous software development lifecycle agent that eliminates repetitive mechanics from engineering work. It handles the complete lifecycle from Jira issue ingestion to PR creation—allowing developers to focus on high-level architecture while the agent manages the implementation-test-fix loops.
Autonomously analyzes incoming requirements, categorizes tasks (Feature, Bug, or Chore), and drafts technical specifications before executing changes.
Orchestrates Plan, Build, Test, and Review cycles to move tasks from To-Do to Done with minimal human touch.
Executes the repository test suite, diagnoses failures via LLM reasoning, and iteratively patches code until the entire build turns green.
Conducts an automated post-implementation audit to verify that code changes match original issue specifications, compiling an audit summary for review.
AI Workflows
A proposed internal product that gives Deluxe business domains a central place to discover and run AI workflows. Users would see workflows relevant to their domain, provide required inputs, start a workflow, and observe its progress and telemetry.
Builds on more than 100 AI ideas submitted by domain champions through a Jira intake process.
Designed for Finance and other Deluxe domains so users can see and run workflows relevant to their work.
The prototype includes a workflow catalog, input modal, execution start, and workflow progress/telemetry view.
Smaller workflows may remain FDE-owned; larger solutions can be handed to engineering for enterprise deployment.
Skills Matrix
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- Front-End Frameworks (Modern React)Deep
- JavaScript & Modern Web StackSenior
- AI Agent Workflows & AutomationDeep
- AI Product Discovery & MVPsSpecialist
- SDLC Automation (Jira / PR CI)Production
- RAG Systems & Prompt EngineeringSpecialist
- Design Systems & Component LibrariesDeep
- Agent OrchestrationDeep
- Model Fine-Tuning & DatasetsSpecialist
- Python Scripting & AutomationIntermediate
- Demandware / Salesforce CommercePrior Exp
- Low-Level Systems (C / C++ / Rust)
- AWS AI ServicesWorking
- Microsoft Power Automate & AzureEnterprise
- Model Evaluation & GuardrailsWorking
- Backend and API DevelopmentCompetent
- Native Mobile App DevNo Swift/Kotlin native mobile app shipping.
- Low-Level Systems (C / C++ / Rust)Focus is SDLC and high-level automation, not low-level kernels.
- Pure Consumer UI/UX DesignNot a dedicated Figma designer or visual illustrator.
- Manual, Anti-Automation CultureI will struggle in teams resistant to adopting modern AI-assisted engineering.
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