Founder, goldrise.ai

Jordan Engstrom

Engineer-turned-founder building agentic AI where it actually belongs.

About

Jordan Engstrom is the founder of goldrise.ai, an AI services platform helping founder-led businesses determine exactly where agentic AI belongs in their strategy, and where it doesn't. His background is in DevOps and cloud native software engineering, where he spent years designing and scaling production-grade infrastructure. That foundation sets his approach apart: he's not a consultant repeating buzzwords, but an engineer-turned-founder who has built and shipped the systems he now advises on. Going solo allowed him to move faster and stay closer to the work that matters most. Today, he's building at the forefront of the solo AI founder movement, proof that deep technical expertise paired with founder instinct can outpace teams many times the size. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with friends, reading, and learning.

Projects

Home Value Index vs. Time

In this project, I used plotly and geojson to map Idaho zip codes with their Zillow Home Value Index
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Employee Spotlight

Jordan is proactive in our quality manifesto and this has a great impact on our team.
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Git Workflow Article

This article covers the basics of branching and merging. I still reference it for my git commands!
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