Jack Kenney

Jack Kenney is a Full Stack Software Engineer at Paytronix, where responsibilities include building APIs, processing data, and designing user interfaces for the Online Ordering team. Key contributions include integrating LLM AI APIs for semantic search of restaurant menus and optimizing guest payment capture to reduce processing fees by 12%. Prior experience includes roles as a Graduate Research Assistant and Bay State Fellow at UMass Amherst, focusing on explainable AI and reinforcement learning, as well as participation in customer-facing software engineering and leadership training at MathWorks. Jack holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, both from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has a background in mobile app development, deep learning, and document repository design.