Jeff McCracken
About
About
Professional
Jeff spent 21 years at Itron, rising to Director of Global Product Management. He led the original $300MM SDG&E smart meter deployment — 2.3 million devices across San Diego — one of the largest Advanced Metering Infrastructure rollouts in North America.
Along the way, he presented at industry conferences worldwide, helping utilities understand what it takes to deploy and operate smart grid infrastructure at scale.
Today, Jeff is an independent consultant specializing in AMI modernization for utilities including SDG&E and Consumers Energy. He brings two decades of deployment experience to organizations navigating the transition from legacy metering to next-generation infrastructure.
He publishes at EdgeAMI.ai, writing about the intersection of utility infrastructure, edge computing, and the next wave of grid modernization.
Builder
The same infrastructure mindset that deployed 2.3 million smart meters now drives Jeff's approach to personal AI systems.
A Personal Operating System — not a chatbot, but a Chief of Staff. Morning briefings, agent swarms, voice interface, and a self-building architecture that extends its own capabilities overnight.
Read the Story →A full-stack trading platform with 40+ PostgreSQL tables, real-time market data integration, and systematic strategy execution. Sabrina is progressively wiring herself into it.
Jeff practices a "vibe coding" philosophy — building with AI as a collaborator rather than a tool. The code gets written faster, but more importantly, it gets written differently.
Explorer
Jeff is based in Walnut Creek, California. When he's not building systems or consulting on infrastructure, he's outside.
Mountain biking through the East Bay hills. Snow skiing. Multi-day canoe trips in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) — where there's no cell service, no AI, and the only system that matters is the one keeping you fed and dry.
These are the things that keep the work grounded. Building AI systems is compelling, but the real world — the one with trails and portages and weather — is where the best thinking happens.
Outdoor photos coming soon
Connect
Whether it's AMI modernization, AI systems, or just a good conversation — Jeff is easy to reach.