
Jeff Gutierrez Chief AI Officer IL, Chicago jeff.gutierrez@bld.ai jeff@orangeandbronze.com	Jeff maintains a deep connection to the codebase and data architecture. Dual-Track Leadership: Consistently maintains a significant technical workload (up to 80% in key roles), moving seamlessly from board meetings to architecting complex platforms. Data & ML Practitioner: Directly led data exploration, financial modeling, and the creation of machine learning models to drive business growth. Engineering Excellence: A dedicated practitioner of Test-Driven Development (TDD), Lean principles, and CI/CD, ensuring that innovation is always paired with operational stability.		Work Experience Orange and Bronze January 2026 - Present January 2026 - Present Chief AI Officer (Part-time, Remote from Chicago) I lead the strategic integration of AI at O&B, partnering with C-suite leaders to architect intelligent, industrial-grade ecosystems that bridge the gap between AI curiosity and tangible ROI. Simultaneously, I head our US operations, driving market growth and ensuring our world-class engineering teams deliver seamless, scalable solutions for our North American partners. My mission is to scale our AI Engineering capabilities while upholding the highest standards of data sovereignty and operational excellence across the globe. Self-Employed January 2022 - September 2025 January 2022 - September 2025 Independent Financial Technology \| Quant & Algorithmic Trading Operated as a self-employed stock options trader and fintech developer, focusing on high-frequency data and predictive modeling. Backtesting Engine and Financial Modeling: Built a proprietary backtesting framework to validate trading strategies against historical data, ensuring statistical significance and risk mitigation. Analytical Data Mart: Designed and implemented a custom data mart and analytical dashboard for real-time presentation and analysis of market trends and portfolio performance. GoHealth (NASDAQ: GOCO) May 2007 - December 2021 May 2007 - December 2021 Advanced Analytics & Data Science As Vice President of Advanced Analytics, maintained a 30% technical hands-on workload focused on building the foundational data science capabilities that powered the company's hypergrowth. Machine Learning & Modeling: Personally conducted data exploration and built ML models using Python and R to drive business growth through predictive analytics. Data Engineering: Architected and implemented data pipelines using Airflow, SQL, and AWS to ensure high-fidelity data availability for organizational decision-making. Financial Analysis: Leveraged a unique blend of engineering and finance expertise to perform complex regression analysis and financial modeling, directly impacting strategic investment evaluations and P&L accountability. Infrastructure: Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux to deploy and manage analytical environments, ensuring highly available data services. Education University of Illinois May 2023 - September 2024 May 2023 - September 2024 Master's Degree in Finance; Academic honor University of Chicago, Booth School of Business May 2015 - May 2017 May 2015 - May 2017 Master's Degree in Business Administration; Specialization: Entrepreneurship and General Management Mapua University June 1991 - April 1996 June 1991 - April 1996 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering Skills A/B Testing AWS Bedrock Advanced Excel Agile/scrum/kanban Algorithmic Trading Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bash Scripting CI/CD CI/CD Pipelines Data Engineering Data analytics Data science Docker Financial derivatives Google Sheets Java Kubernetes Linear programming Linux programming Linux sysadmin MS Excel Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Microsoft Transact-SQL MySQL NoSQL Pandas PostgreSQL Python Spring Boot Tableau Terraform

Jeff Gutierrez

Chief AI Officer

IL, Chicago

jeff.gutierrez@bld.ai jeff@orangeandbronze.com

Jeff maintains a deep connection to the codebase and data architecture.

Dual-Track Leadership: Consistently maintains a significant technical workload (up to 80% in key roles), moving seamlessly from board meetings to architecting complex platforms.
Data & ML Practitioner: Directly led data exploration, financial modeling, and the creation of machine learning models to drive business growth.
Engineering Excellence: A dedicated practitioner of Test-Driven Development (TDD), Lean principles, and CI/CD, ensuring that innovation is always paired with operational stability.

Work Experience

Orange and Bronze

January 2026 - Present

Chief AI Officer (Part-time, Remote from Chicago)

I lead the strategic integration of AI at O&B, partnering with C-suite leaders to architect intelligent, industrial-grade ecosystems that bridge the gap between AI curiosity and tangible ROI. Simultaneously, I head our US operations, driving market growth and ensuring our world-class engineering teams deliver seamless, scalable solutions for our North American partners. My mission is to scale our AI Engineering capabilities while upholding the highest standards of data sovereignty and operational excellence across the globe.

Self-Employed

January 2022 - September 2025

Independent Financial Technology | Quant & Algorithmic Trading

Operated as a self-employed stock options trader and fintech developer, focusing on high-frequency data and predictive modeling.

Backtesting Engine and Financial Modeling: Built a proprietary backtesting framework to validate trading strategies against historical data, ensuring statistical significance and risk mitigation.
Analytical Data Mart: Designed and implemented a custom data mart and analytical dashboard for real-time presentation and analysis of market trends and portfolio performance.

GoHealth (NASDAQ: GOCO)

May 2007 - December 2021

Advanced Analytics & Data Science

As Vice President of Advanced Analytics, maintained a 30% technical hands-on workload focused on building the foundational data science capabilities that powered the company's hypergrowth.

Machine Learning & Modeling: Personally conducted data exploration and built ML models using Python and R to drive business growth through predictive analytics.
Data Engineering: Architected and implemented data pipelines using Airflow, SQL, and AWS to ensure high-fidelity data availability for organizational decision-making.
Financial Analysis: Leveraged a unique blend of engineering and finance expertise to perform complex regression analysis and financial modeling, directly impacting strategic investment evaluations and P&L accountability.
Infrastructure: Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux to deploy and manage analytical environments, ensuring highly available data services.

Education

University of Illinois

May 2023 - September 2024

Master's Degree in Finance; Academic honor

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

May 2015 - May 2017

Master's Degree in Business Administration; Specialization: Entrepreneurship and General Management

Mapua University

June 1991 - April 1996

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Skills

A/B Testing

AWS Bedrock

Advanced Excel

Agile/scrum/kanban

Algorithmic Trading

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Bash Scripting

CI/CD

CI/CD Pipelines

Data Engineering

Data analytics

Data science

Docker

Financial derivatives

Google Sheets

Java

Kubernetes

Linear programming

Linux programming

Linux sysadmin

MS Excel

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Microsoft Transact-SQL

MySQL

NoSQL

Pandas

PostgreSQL

Python

Spring Boot

Tableau

Terraform