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Jonathan Major builds systems that hold up.

Agentic Studio Labs is led by Jonathan Major, a senior AI engineer with deep enterprise platform, security, and regulated-systems experience. He gets brought in when the work needs to ship cleanly, survive real constraints, and hand off without drama.

Why teams bring him in

Jonathan works best on serious builds: AI products, internal systems, and agentic workflows where architecture, trust boundaries, and production handoff matter. The work is less about abstract AI strategy and more about getting a real system built, deployed, and handed over cleanly.

Quick credibility snapshot

  • Built and deployed AI systems across customer support, document processing, compliance, and retrieval workflows.
  • Early engineering and security leader from MVP through Series B at Crux Informatics.
  • Enterprise platform background spanning BlackRock Aladdin, Barclays Global Investors, and regulated data operations.
  • Fractional CISO and GRC/security depth across SOC 2, ISO 27001, privacy, threat modeling, and DFIR.

Enough depth for real operating constraints

The value here is not generic AI enthusiasm. It is the combination of delivery experience, enterprise operating history, and security judgment that makes serious systems easier to trust.

30+ years Building software and delivery systems in enterprise and operationally sensitive environments.
18 SOC 2 engagements Delivered across SaaS, HealthTech, InsurTech, and Finance through the security/GRC side of the practice.
$10T+ platform context Leadership experience tied to BlackRock's Aladdin platform and large-scale financial operations.
0 -> 1 to enterprise scale Experience from early product builds through scaling, compliance, and operational ownership.

Where the background is strongest

Agentic Studio Labs sits at the intersection of AI engineering, enterprise platform delivery, and security-sensitive operating environments.

ai engineering

Builds and deploys AI systems that do real work: agentic workflows, retrieval systems, evaluation layers, context infrastructure, and productized internal tooling.

agentic systems

Strong on orchestration, tool use, MCP servers, LangGraph-style multi-agent patterns, and the hard edges around handoff, control, and observability.

security and grc

Deep experience with trust boundaries, AI risk, compliance programs, audit workflows, threat modeling, MDR/DFIR, and production controls for regulated work.

enterprise systems

Comfortable in environments where deployment quality, integration complexity, and executive credibility matter as much as model choice or demo quality.

The high-level career line

The detailed profile lives on the full `whoami` page. This is the buyer's-eye summary.

Founder, Agentic Studio Labs 2026 - present
AI engineering consultancy

Builds production AI systems for teams with real workflows, meaningful constraints, and a need for clean technical handoff.

Fractional CISO and AI Systems Builder, Risk and Response 2020 - present
Security, GRC, and technical diligence practice

Led security and compliance work across SOC 2, ISO 27001, privacy, threat modeling, DFIR, and operational audit readiness while also building applied AI systems and supporting infrastructure.

VP Engineering / Security Leadership 2013 - 2020
Crux Informatics and Incapture Technologies

From founding engineering leadership through enterprise platform execution, including engineering, operations, InfoSec, and delivery responsibility in complex data environments.

Enterprise platform and transformation leadership 1999 - 2013
BlackRock, Barclays Global Investors, Charles Schwab, Lotus/IBM

Built large-scale delivery, testing, and operational systems in high-stakes financial and enterprise software environments.

Need the person behind the work, not just the services page?

If you are trying to assess fit, the next best move is either to review representative work or look at the full technical profile and resume. When there is a real system on the table, book the scoping call.