Builder who teaches, at the edge of AI.

I'm a software engineer and an educator. I ship production software, and I teach non-programmers to build it — including "Building Software in the AI Era" at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. Builder first; teacher always.

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Featured work

Things I built to make abstract ideas about AI tangible.

interactive lesson

The Literal Machine

Instruct a hyper-literal robot (played by Claude) to make a PB&J — and feel firsthand why specs, verification, and reuse matter when you work with AI.

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Teaching

Kellogg School of Management · since 2021

I created and teach ENTR-451, "Building Software in the AI Era" — a ten-week course that takes non-programmers (founders, product leaders, operators) from zero to a full-stack product they deploy live. It's built around the distinction at the heart of working with AI today: the gap between vibe coding (prompt, paste, hope) and agentic coding (directing AI inside guardrails of tests, specs, and structure). I teach two to three sections a year, and re-tool the stack each quarter as the tools change — because the durable skills don't.

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Selected experience

Adjunct Lecturer

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern

2017–now

Senior Software Engineer

SalesAndCatering.com

2024–now

Chief Technology Officer

IntelliCare by Adaptive Health · advisory since funding paused in 2024

2022–now

VP of Engineering / Lead Developer

Scale Down · acquired by Anthem

2015–2017

Chief Operating Officer

WeDeliver · acquired by Deliv

2014–2015

Associate Producer

Chicago Ideas Week (inaugural year)

2010–2011

Full history on LinkedIn · résumé (PDF).

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Get in touch

bjblock@gmail.com linkedin github