I'm Jay McDonough, a Senior / Staff AI & Data Engineer. 26 years running my own technology consultancy, 15 years in enterprise consulting, and 2 years building production LLM systems — multi-agent meshes, RAG pipelines, voice/SMS AI, streaming infrastructure. Real systems, real traffic.
Not a media brand, not a slide deck — a working engineer with 26 years of shipped platforms behind him.
I've spent 26 years building platforms end to end: data pipelines, web systems, streaming infrastructure, and for the last two years, production LLM systems — multi-agent AI networks, retrieval pipelines, and voice/SMS automation that handle real users. I work across the whole stack, from MySQL schemas to model orchestration, and I stay until it runs in production.
Charged with weed possession at 17. Father at 23. Most people fold — I hustled. Got it expunged, built a 20-year real estate career and a 26-year tech company from nothing — plus 15 years volunteering as President & CEO of GreenTV.com, unpaid — standing at Standing Rock, covering Bill McKibben, Jill Stein, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and more — because independent media matters.
Then AI came for my $100k-a-year PHP work. Contracts dried up — the machines could write the code. So I did what I've always done: I didn't complain, I joined 'em. Became an AI data engineer. Can't beat 'em, join 'em — and now I'm the baddest of the asses. I build the systems that replaced the old me.
That grind made me who I am. Big corporations hire me, I walk in, I don't fit in — and I don't try to. I look at their systems, tell them what's broken, and tell them to burn it down. I've been let go more times than I can count for refusing to play politics when I know I'm right.
I don't kiss anyone's ass and I never have — I make my own. I'm disposable to them and I couldn't care less about their culture. While they're writing PHP from memory, I'm light years ahead building AI systems they don't understand yet. Here I am — still kicking ass.
Independent technology consultancy: full-stack platform engineering, data pipelines, and production web systems for clients across industries. Every engagement end to end — architecture, build, deploy, operate.
Enterprise consulting delivery: data engineering, Python platforms, ETL, and client systems work inside large organizations. The discipline of shipping inside enterprise constraints.
15 years leading GreenTV.com: the streaming TV app and auto-logging website platform. Independent media infrastructure, from broadcast to web — built, operated, and iterated continuously.
Founded GreenTV.app as the product arm: the AI Node Mesh (production multi-agent network — proprietary RAG, voice/SMS event pipelines, heartbeat monitoring) packaged as modules and bundles for operators.
Founded and built a full dating platform at WordPress/BuddyPress scale: credibility-points economy, matching systems, PayPal checkout, transactional email. Launched last week, live and growing — operated as a real product.
Founded Tennessee Hosting: fast, honest web hosting for Tennessee businesses. Scalable Starter at 50 GB — $79 first year, then $119/year — upgrading to 100 GB Business and 200 GB Pro without downtime, with free SSL, daily backups, free migration, and GreenTV Version Control (Dev, Test, Live) built in.
Four builds that show the range: AI infrastructure, media platform, full product engineering, and web hosting.
A production multi-agent AI network — agents with distinct roles (build, comms, voice, marketing) coordinating over a message bus, with credential lifecycle management and heartbeat monitoring. Packages and modules for operators.
The GreenTV media network — a streaming TV app and auto-logging website platform, built and operated over 15 years. Independent media infrastructure, from broadcast to web.
A complete dating platform, founded and built solo — from data model to checkout. Privacy-first architecture with a credibility-points economy replacing paywalls as the trust mechanism. Launched last week.
Fast, honest web hosting for Tennessee businesses — from Memphis to the Tri-Cities. Fair pricing with no renewal ambush, backed by real people in Tennessee, on the same GreenTV stack that runs greentv.com.
Things I've built that you can buy. Not the main event — but they're here if you need them.
Private, self-hosted AI network — multi-model routing, self-healing, you own it outright. Launched October 2026.
Branded OTT watch experience for your content.
Hands-off social posting and engagement pipelines.
Members-only areas, tiers, and recurring revenue.
Campaign management without the agency markup.
Native-feel apps for iOS and Android from your platform.
AI-powered video creation from your content.
Advanced broadcasting tools for live and scheduled TV.
Automated content ingest, processing, and publishing.
Pull and organize video content automatically.
Email automation paired with AI coaching.
Professional site builds, done right the first time.
Search optimization that actually moves the needle.
I'm targeting remote staff-level AI and data engineering roles — LLM platforms, agentic systems, ML infrastructure. Available immediately, US citizen, no sponsorship needed.
