Operator and founder — twenty years running the functions a small organization can't afford to specialize: growth, comms, product, compliance, operations. Working in security and AI evaluation, with a hands-on technical lead role in live event AV.

Read my resume — thirteen interview questions, answered in advance, in one HTML file. No chatbot, no build step, every answer cited to its source.

📫 jzesbaugh@gmail.com · 💼 linkedin.com/in/jzesbaugh

• llm-instruction-evals — a blind evaluation protocol for LLM instruction sets: regression baselines, negative controls, and a case study where a design prediction was falsified by testing and corrected the same day.
• svg-public — the Seattle Vegan Restaurant Guide, a zero-dependency directory widget built for a member-owned grocery co-op I co-founded.
• pentest-plus-study-tool — a free, no-login CompTIA PenTest+ (PT0-003) study console: 91 tools mapped to exam objectives, a match-drill quiz, password-based progress saves.
• resume — source for the resume site above.

Background spans cannabis-industry digital strategy, marketplaces and media production, alongside a deliberate move into security and AI evaluation. The resume linked above has the honest version of how those connect.