Jonathan Korstad - AI Engineer & Coffee Shop Owner

About Me

Senior Accessibility Analyst at Visa and an AI Engineer hobbyist with a passion for deep reinforcement learning and innovating accessibile technology solutions. With a background in technology, healthcare, and construction, I bring a unique perspective to solving complex problems. I'm also the proud founder of Kynda Coffee, where my entrepreneurial spirit meets my love for specialty coffee.

Current Interests and Hobbies: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Generative 3D, Accessibility, Multimodal Models, Agents, Computer Vision, XR and of course gaming!

Skills

Deep Reinforcement Learning

PyTorch

Generative 3D and Multimodal models

SolveIt With Code & Fast.ai

Python, C++, Flutter, React, React Native

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

LangChain

Unreal Engine 5 & Unity

Hugging Face Ecosystem

Digital Accessibility

Rapid Learning and Creative Problem Solving

Entrepreneurship

Critical & Creative Independent Thinking

Strategy and Innovation

Cross Functional Generalist with a love for lifelong learning

Experience

Senior Accessibility Analyst at Visa

Created a novel method for users to enter their PIN of a flat glass touch screen that for the first time meets all industry security standards and enables unsighted users to independently enter their PIN.

Created innovative accessibility solutions and supported global design teams in enhancing product accessibility.

Microassist

Digital Accessibility subject matter expert, analyst and tester.

Bug remediation and accessible coding advice for many large companies and sites

Founder/Owner of Kynda Coffee

Built up a team and clear procedures that now allows for the business to run primarily independent from me.

Founded and successfully launched a coffee business, managing all aspects from business and store operations to engineering, buildout, legal, accounting, marketing, web development, strategy, electrical, plumbing and equipment repair and more.

Successfully grew Kynda Coffee into a profitable company regardless of it's grand opening being 1 week before Covid!

Restaurant & Hospitality Management

Led teams for large scale banquets, events, and massive scale parties while networking across many industries

Education & Certificates

(2024) University of Texas at Austin - Post Graduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
(2019) Texas A&M University - Bachelors in Science - Pre-med (Kinesiology) - Paid my own way through debt free!
(2023) Practical Deep Learning for Coders courses
(2024) SolveIt With Code
(2023 Honors) - Hugging Face Deep Reinforcement Learning Course

Deep RL Course Projects (all completed at or above the honors score threshold): LunarLandar-v2 optimized to land (without crashing!) in the sim environment from any given start velocity/path, “Huggy” the Dog Fetch agent, FrozenLake game optimization, Space Invaders Agent Score Maximizer, PixelCopter Agent, CartPole balancing agent, SnowballTarget agent, Pyramids (rapidly search for and touch the correct cube) agent, environments in Panda Gym and PyBullet, agent vs. agent Soccer duos multi-agent training, VizDOOM health gathering on poisonous ground agent++

(2023) Advanced AI Transformers for Computer Vision
(2023) Deep Learning A-Z & Machine Learning A-Z
(2023) LangChain - Develop LLM powered applications
(2022) A-Z Hands-On Tableau Training for Data Science
(2021) - IAAP CPACC & WAS (CPWA)
Many many more spanning networking, security, coding, devops, cloud, game development etc...

Kynda Coffee

Founded October 2019, Kynda Coffee represents my entrepreneurial journey in the specialty coffee industry. We focus on quality coffee, scratch baked goods, and community.

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