About
Jay Hack is Head of Artificial Intelligence at ClickUp. He previously founded Codegen, an autonomous software engineering tool that raised $16 million from investors including Thrive, Naval Ravikant, and Adam D'Angelo, and was acquired by ClickUp in late 2025. Earlier, he worked as a forward deployed AI engineer in data science and machine learning at Palantir and built Mira, an AI-powered shopping platform that raised $9 million and was sold to FemTec Health in 2021.
Founder at Codegen
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Jon HackExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter
Experience
- ClickUpHead of Artificial Intelligencecurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- CodegenFounder & CEO2023 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
- FemTec Health, Inc.VP Business Intelligence2021 — 2022
- Mira AI, Inc., a FemTec Health CompanyCofounder, CEO2017 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- Palantir TechnologiesForward Deployed Product & AI2015 — 2017
- 205 ConsultingCofounder, CEO2014 — 2015Stanford, CA
- SplunkSoftware Development Intern2013San Francisco Bay Area
Skills & more
Machine Learning14Python15Computer Vision10Natural Language Processing4Data Science3Hadoop2Computer Science7Statistics2Matlab4Julia4C++5Java8
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jay Hack?
- Jay Hack is Head of Artificial Intelligence at ClickUp. He previously founded Codegen, an autonomous software engineering tool that raised $16 million from investors including Thrive, Naval Ravikant, and Adam D'Angelo, and was acquired by ClickUp in late 2025. Earlier, he worked as a forward deployed AI engineer in data science and machine learning at Palantir and built Mira, an AI-powered shopping platform that raised $9 million and was sold to FemTec Health in 2021.
- Where does Jay Hack work?
- Jay Hack is Founder of Codegen.
- What companies did Jay Hack found?
- Jay Hack founded Codegen.
- Where did Jay Hack go to school?
- Jay Hack studied at Stanford University (BS, Computer Science, AI).
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Also worked at ClickUp11
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