Jake Gaylor

Projects & Ventures

A collection of my technical projects, open source contributions, and entrepreneurial ventures showcasing product development, business leadership, and technical innovation.

Business Ventures

The Onward Store Steakhouse

Oct 2021 – Jan 2024

Co-Owner with my wife - Partnership venture where we led all aspects of the business together

  • Executed full business lifecycle together from opportunity identification and acquisition to building $500K annual revenue operation

  • Built and led high-performing team of 7 through hands-on leadership, creating culture of excellence, accountability, and pride in their work

  • Established operational systems and feedback loops that drove consistent quality and customer satisfaction

  • Applied tech product mindset to traditional business—rapid iteration, data-driven decisions, and continuous improvement

SocialDrizzle

2013 – 2015

Founder - Social media engagement platform for stadium video boards at public events

  • Built complete microservices architecture using Docker, Ansible, and Jenkins—including data collection bots, routing, processing, and web application

  • Launched MVP at Mississippi State University in just 12 weeks using Meteor framework

  • Provided turnkey solution for game day production crews including hardware integration, custom templates, and on-site support

  • Developed fleet of social media bots to aggregate and curate fan content for real-time stadium display

Technical Projects

Ravi 2FA

Cross-platform 2FA app built with Flutter - live on Apple App Store, Android coming soon

  • Built fully native cross-platform app using Flutter and Dart for iOS and Android

  • Implemented industry-standard TOTP/HOTP algorithms with secure platform-specific storage

  • Designed intuitive Material Design UI for managing multiple authentication accounts

  • Successfully launched on Apple App Store, Google Play Store release pending

MCP Working Group Contributions

Active participant in Model Context Protocol (MCP) community development

  • Member of the MCP Hosting Working Group

  • Developed strategies for deploying and running MCP servers at scale

  • Contributed to Dart SDK, Express tool for binding to MCP servers

  • Developed various MCP servers (Hirebase, Candidate Job Search, Text Extraction)

  • Created GitOps tool for MCP deployments

  • Operate publicly available MCP servers for community testing

CareerFlick LLM-Driven Mobile App

Developed a Flutter mobile application with a Tinder-like LLM interface

  • Built intuitive swipe-based interface for interacting with LLMs using Flutter

  • Implemented AI-driven content generation and response system

  • Developed a cross-platform mobile app for iOS and Android

Hirebase MCP Server

A Python MCP server for Hirebase.org's API

  • Built a Python-based Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for searching jobs on Hirebase.org

  • Dockerized the service and set up GitOps CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and releases

Express MCP Handler

Package to simplify MCP handling in Express.js

  • Developed Express middleware in TypeScript to streamline MCP request handling

  • Authored full type definitions and robust error handling for production-grade reliability

Node Candidate MCP Server

A TypeScript library to build customizable candidate MCP servers

  • Authored a reusable library enabling developers to integrate their own candidate data into MCP flows

  • Published as an npm package for easy adoption and extension by other teams

mcp_dart

Dart SDK implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

  • Contributed stream based support for in-process MCP servers

  • Add support for running MCP servers in flutter apps

  • Authored Dart examples to accelerate SDK adoption