Jesse M. Torres, Senior Core Platform Engineer
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About
More than 30 years in enterprise technology across military, government, financial, and corporate environments, including work requiring a Top Secret clearance. Current focus: enterprise AI. Evaluating, integrating, governing, and hardening platforms such as Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT Enterprise, MCP integrations, and agent architectures for production use in security-conscious organizations.
Capabilities
- Enterprise AI: integrations and production AI deployments
- AI agents: MCP integrations and AI-assisted workflows
- Azure Virtual Desktop: architecture, automation, and support
- Collaboration: enterprise platform implementations and integrations
- Apple endpoints: management and compliance using Jamf
- DevOps: automation and infrastructure orchestration
- Packaging as code: software deployment automation
- Systems engineering: infrastructure modernization
- Endpoint security: patch management and security tooling
- Monitoring: alerting and operational tooling
- Provisioning: systems lifecycle management
- Leadership: technical and customer-facing engagements
Experience
- Bridgewater Associates, Senior Core Platform Engineer, April 2001 to present. Platform engineering, DevOps, automation architecture, and enterprise AI enablement.
- McGowan Consulting Group, Senior Systems Engineer, 1999 to 2001. Sikorsky Comanche program: security, imaging, and automation at scale.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (Stamford, CT), Technical Specialist, 1998 to 1999. Multi-site support and executive support through the 1998 merger.
- Air National Guard, Senior Airman, August 1992 to August 1998. Computer maintenance and cryptography, with a Top Secret clearance.
Education
University of Connecticut, B.S., Versatile Technology, Communications, 1994 to 1998, earned while serving in the Air National Guard.
Published books
- Windows Admin Scripting (1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions)
- Windows 2000 Admin Scripting
- Windows Admin Programming with Visual C# 2005
- Technical editor: Robot Building for Dummies