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.