Forward Deployed Engineer / Photographer / Motorcyclist
Jakub Hojsan
I work with customers who want to give their agents the best knowledge, then travel for good food, ride motorcycles, and take photos along the way.
Index
Work / Photos.
Two practices: building search and AI systems with customers, and making real photographs on the road.
Work
Strategic accounts, AI search, and frontier customer work.
Forward deployed engineering across pre-sales, post-sales, product strategy, and implementation.
Exa
Forward Deployed Engineer
Distyl
AI Strategist
Microsoft
Product Manager
Photography
Real photographs from places I went and people I met.
Travel, street, food, motorcycles, portraits, and city light.
Hong Kong
Vietnam
Paris
California
Experience
Selected work.
Engineering, AI strategy, product work, and founding projects.
2025 - Present
Exa
Forward Deployed Engineer
Operating within strategic accounts end-to-end across pre-sales and post-sales at the forefront of search for AI.
Case studies
2025
Distyl
AI Strategist
Led AI strategy and implementation for Fortune 500 enterprises across telecom and supply chain industries.
Realtime API work
Worked on integrating early versions of Realtime API within T-Mobile for CX.
2024 - 2025
Microsoft
Product Manager
Drove product strategy for internal developer tools used by hundreds of Microsoft employees across Azure Core and teams expanding Azure into new regions.
2021 - 2023
Ilio Mirror
Founding Team
Led a team of engineers to develop a smart mirror product with video playback. Delivered a working MVP in 3 weeks out of a garage.
2020 - 2023
UCLA
Computer Science
Studied Computer Science while exploring AI/ML and venture capital through various fellowships.
2018 - 2021
Taskway
Founder
Built and scaled a marketplace connecting 100+ students with local job opportunities.
Archive
Selected photographs.
Selected photographs across travel, street, portrait, and landscape work.
10 / 55
Based in
San Francisco
About
I build agents with the best knowledge layer, ride motorcycles, and keep a camera close.
I work with customers who want their agents to search deeper, answer better, and stay useful in production.
When the weather's nice, you'll find me on my Indian Super Chief. Otherwise I'm probably trying a new restaurant or cafe with a book. Right now I'm reading Tokyo Vice.
Always happy to talk about tech, startups, cameras, food, or a good route out of the city. I shoot events for fun too.