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Simon Jordan

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Founding CTO at Byways

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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About

Simon Jordan is the founder and CEO of Jordan Technology, where he advises enterprise teams on generative AI strategy, architecture, and implementation, including RAG-based knowledge systems, agentic workflows, and responsible AI use. He holds a PhD in AI and has over 15 years of experience in the field, previously co-founding logistics and supply chain SaaS company byways, where he served as CTO through its acquisition and grew the engineering team from 2 to 25. Earlier in his career, he led speech dialogue systems and AI research at Volkswagen Group, covering natural language understanding, information retrieval, traffic prediction, and data analytics.

Founding CTO at Byways

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Byways's investors · 3

Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checksReflex CapitalPrague · $500K – $2M checksVenista VenturesCologne · $55K – $165K checks

Co-founders at Byways

APAlexander Palffy
Alexander PalffyCEO

Experience

  1. Jordan TechnologyFounder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentBerlin, Germany
  2. bywaysCo-Founder & CTO2020 — 2024Berlin Metropolitan Area
  3. shiftdGGAI Advisor2019Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region
  4. Volkswagen GroupHead of AI SDS Research2016 — 2019Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region
  5. Volkswagen GroupProject Leader2014 — 2016Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
  6. Volkswagen GroupResearcher2013 — 2016Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region
  7. Volkswagen Group of America Innovation and Engineering Center California (IECC)Researcher2012 — 2013Belmont, California, United States

Skills & more

LeadershipRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)AI TransformationGenerative AISystem ArchitectureLarge Language Models (LLM)Machine Learning5Distributed Systems12Artificial Intelligence (AI)3Machine learning1Product Development1Programming2

Languages English · German

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Who is Simon Jordan?
Simon Jordan is the founder and CEO of Jordan Technology, where he advises enterprise teams on generative AI strategy, architecture, and implementation, including RAG-based knowledge systems, agentic workflows, and responsible AI use. He holds a PhD in AI and has over 15 years of experience in the field, previously co-founding logistics and supply chain SaaS company byways, where he served as CTO through its acquisition and grew the engineering team from 2 to 25. Earlier in his career, he led speech dialogue systems and AI research at Volkswagen Group, covering natural language understanding, information retrieval, traffic prediction, and data analytics.
Where does Simon Jordan work?
Simon Jordan is Founding CTO of Byways.
What companies did Simon Jordan found?
Simon Jordan founded Byways.
Where did Simon Jordan go to school?
Simon Jordan studied at Leibniz Universität Hannover (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); Technische Universität Berlin (Dipl.- Inform., Computer Science); KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Computer Science).

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Also worked at Volkswagen Group of America Innovation and Engineering Center California (IECC)1

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