AI Developer & Healthcare Software

Jacob
Barefoot

Five years building software at the intersection of AI and healthcare. I specialize in agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and natural language interfaces that make complex systems feel simple.

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01 Projects
Saint & Scholar
Proof of Concept
Pick a historical figure, ask them a question about science or the human condition, and get an answer grounded in real PubMed research — delivered in their voice. A real-world demonstration of RAG architecture: how retrieval can tailor responses to both stylistic persona and niche content domains simultaneously. Marcus Aurelius explaining longevity studies is more engaging than any textbook.
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Gimme a Dollar
Software
A site that asks strangers for a dollar to cover AI API bills, offers nothing in return, and is completely upfront about that. Mostly an experiment in how far you can ship something real without writing traditional code.
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02 Experience
2025 — Present
Agentic AI Developer
Strata Decision Technology
Design and deploy AI-powered agents for healthcare financial planning.
2022 — 2024
Consultant
Strata Decision Technology
Professional services for decision support & analytics.
2020 — 2022
Associate Consultant
EPSi.io
Customized SQL solutioning and analytics development.
2018 — 2020
M.H.A.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014 — 2018
B.A. in Psychology
North Carolina State University
03 Reading
Thinking & Systems
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
Fiction & Literature
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
One More Thing
B.J. Novak
Classics & Poetry
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
The Prophet
Khalil Gibran