Engineer · Leader · Founder
It takes the village.
I like to build the infrastructure.
I am JT Aaron, the engineer behind It Takes The Village. I build AI systems, make sense of sustainability data, and design decision tools that turn complexity into something people can actually act on.
The builder
Make the tradeoffs visible. Make the data honest. Make it actionable.
I have led from a combat engineer platoon to the staff of a two-star general overseeing a $9B construction portfolio across the Middle East and Central Asia.
Now, inside a $9B company, I build a sustainability program from the ground up and carry it through the third-party audits that prove it holds up. The constant across all of it: leadership applied to real constraints, budgets, stakeholders, deadlines, and the judgment calls in between.
Three and a half years in Germany taught me what infrastructure looks like when it works, and that the difference usually comes down to information. When the data is honest and legible, better decisions follow. It Takes The Village is that conviction, built.
Full background on LinkedIn- Based
- Philadelphia, PA
- Trained
- West Point, B.S. Chemical Engineering
- Led
- Platoon to $9B staffs
- Focus
- Automation · Sustainability data · Info design
- Builds with
- Teams from the field to the executive suite
What I Like to Build
Automation & Applied AI
Human-in-the-loop automation that puts AI to work on real operations. I design the workflows, guardrails, and handoffs that make it dependable, and keep a person in command where judgment counts.
Sustainability Data
Emissions accounting, reporting, and the data plumbing that turns sustainability claims into something auditable. Built to hold up at portfolio scale.
Information Design
Dashboards, reports, and decision tools that make complex data legible to the people who act on it, from the field to the boardroom.
Selected work
Case studies in progress
The fastest way to see what I can do is to tell me what you are working on.
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