Author

Jonathan Snyder

For over twenty years, Jonathan Snyder has developed and promoted a humanist approach to working with creative and business technologies. As a Senior Manager at Adobe for nearly fifteen years (2005–2019), he was responsible for globally distributed teams working across a wide range of technology services including: Release Management, Problem Management, Service Quality Improvement, as well as Lean/Agile/ DevOps training and transformation. Snyder began his technology career at the Media Center for Art History, Columbia University, developing academic technology in collaboration with the art history faculty. He is currently conducting research on large language models, working to identify the architectural constraints, epistemological frameworks, and empirical telemetry required to safely and efficiently govern autonomous AI execution in real-world environments. Snyder is a graduate of Reed College, where he obtained an interdisciplinary degree in history and philosophy.