Agentic Programming · AI-Native Development Consulting
Helping engineering teams become AI-native.
The biggest impact of AI on software development isn’t faster code — it’s a shift in what your team can reliably delegate. I help teams make that shift.
I’m Jerod W. Wilkerson — a software-engineering leader, educator, and author with three decades of experience across industry and academia. Through J. Wilkerson Consulting I take on a small number of selective consulting engagements in agentic programming and AI-native development.
Author of Agentic Programming — From Prompts to Production. Availability is limited to roughly one day per week.
How I Help
Focused, senior-level consulting — assessment, architecture, and hands-on guidance — tailored to where your team is today and where it’s trying to go.
Agentic Programming & Harness Design
Help teams build or adopt an agentic harness and move from AI-assisted coding to workflow-based, verified execution — the architecture that makes higher-leverage delegation reliable enough to trust.
AI-Native Development Strategy
Assess where your team sits on the AI Fluency Ladder and chart a practical path to higher-leverage delegation — the tooling, workflows, and habits that move a team up the ladder.
Software Architecture & Code-Quality Review
Independent review of object-oriented architecture, design patterns, and software quality — a clear-eyed outside read on where your codebase is strong and where it will slow you down.
Agile Team Turnaround & Engineering Leadership
Diagnose and fix struggling agile teams — process, structure, motivation, and delivery. At Rakuten Marketing this approach increased one team’s velocity by over 500%.
Selected Experience
Three decades alternating between industry and academia — as an engineer, consultant, founder, manager, director, and professor.
Professor & Associate Chair of Computer Science — Brigham Young University
Teach the software-engineering core; author of Agentic Programming and builder of a working agentic harness that coordinates AI coding agents through workflows, verification, retries, and recovery.
Software Engineering Director — Rakuten Marketing
Led three agile teams building a real-time bidding and ad-serving platform; turned around two struggling teams, increasing one team’s velocity by over 500%.
Senior Development Manager — Workfront
Managed a 23-engineer, geographically distributed QA organization embedded in agile teams; led development of a new test framework for a micro-services architecture.
Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems — Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Taught information systems and software-development courses in the Black School of Business and conducted research on software engineering and software quality.
President & Founder — The Object Center
Founded and ran an object-oriented and web consulting company (now closed), delivering enterprise Java and web projects, including work for GM / McCracken Financial Software and State of Utah agencies.
Earlier consulting & engineering roles
Senior consulting and engineering roles at Software Technology Group, Information Technology International, Filoli Information Systems, and Price Waterhouse (U.S. Department of Defense).
Selected Clients
Over the course of a 30-year career, consulting engagements have served organizations from startups to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, including:
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Lockheed Martin
- Raytheon Missile Systems
- J.P. Morgan Chase
- GMAC
- General Motors
- Iomega
- State of Utah
Past engagements across a multi-decade career. Listed as experience, not as an endorsement by these organizations.
About
Let’s talk about your team
If your team is adopting AI-native development, rethinking its architecture, or working to deliver more reliably, I’d be glad to discuss whether an engagement makes sense.
Discuss an EngagementOr email jerod.wilkerson@gmail.com directly.