# Agent Context — jpvalery.me

This document provides structured context for AI agents interacting with or answering questions about Jp Valery and his personal website. It is generated from the site content at each deploy.

## Identity

- **Name:** Jp Valery
- **Tagline:** Tinkerer. Builder. Pilot.
- **Location:** Montréal, QC, Canada (originally from Southern France)
- **Email:** contact@jpvalery.me
- **Website:** https://jpvalery.me
- **RSS:** https://jpvalery.me/feed.xml

## Social Profiles

| Platform | URL |
|----------|-----|
| Twitter | https://twitter.com/jpvalery |
| GitHub | https://github.com/jpvalery |
| Unsplash | https://unsplash.com/@jpvalery |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/jpvalery |

## Professional Summary

Jp is a Customer Success Engineer at **Resend** (email infrastructure company). He runs **Raccoon Ventures** (raccoonv.com) as a side company for consulting, advisorship, and side projects. He holds an MSc in Management with a Marketing major and Design minor.

### Experience

| Years | Company | Role | Highlight |
|-------|---------|------|-----------|
| 2025—now | Resend | Customer Success Engineer | Employee #13. Owned the customer experience through hypergrowth: 5k → 130k+ paying customers, ARR up 15x, and tickets 200 → 1,500+/week |
| 2021—2025 | Customer.io | Customer Success Manager → Customer Success Team Lead → Success Team Manager, Mid-Market | Led a global CS team of up to 17 direct and indirect reports across 4 continents: 100% retention and 7 promotions in 12 months |
| 2020—2021 | Local Logic | Manager, Growth Operations | Built the Customer and Growth functions supporting an $8M Series A |
| 2018—2020 | LANDR | Customer Success Specialist → Manager → Growth Architect | Technical lead for Customer Experience and Monetization; ran messaging operations delivering 10M+ emails and 12M+ in-app messages a year |
| 2014—2017 | Gameloft | Community and product marketing | Built the email program from scratch to 500k+ subscribers, then led global product marketing for mobile launches (40M+ downloads) |

Full resume: https://resume.jpvalery.me

### Services Offered

Advisory and consulting engagements are handled through raccoonv.com (the old /work/advisorship and /work/consultancy pages redirect there).

## Active Projects

| Project | URL | Description |
|---------|-----|-------------|
| TrimCarbon.com | trimcarbon.com | Fund verified climate projects that remove or reduce CO₂ from the atmosphere |
| Hockay | hockay.com | One sport no one asked for but everyone needed. A fan-controlled ice hockey league with hourly games, bets, team shares, and petitions to Le Council |
| Decision Bowl | decisionbowl.com | Stop the “you pick, no, you pick” loop. Fill a shared bowl with restaurants, activities, or movies and let it pick one for you |
| Monobath | monobath.app | My native Mac app that turns camera scans of film into finished photos: it takes the orange out, finds the frame, and does the whole roll. Color negatives, black and white, and slides |
| DMC | dnd-dmc.vercel.app | Dungeon Master of Ceremonies, my free native macOS app to be the best DM at the table: layered soundscapes, D&D Beyond, a combat tracker, and session notes, in one window |
| Safety Briefing | safety-briefing.com | A safety briefing for general aviation passengers, covering pre-flight preparation and in-flight procedures. Open source under the MIT License |
| Cuisinomicon | cuisinomicon.com | My online cookbook where I share my best recipes |
| Flaps | github.com/jpvalery/flaps | FLAPS is an open-source platform for managing and booking seats on private or light aircraft flights. |
| Mèche | meche.ca | My small candle workshop in Québec: soy wax candles with a wooden wick, hand-poured in small batches and reserved for the members of the circle |

## Key Interests & Expertise Areas

- **Aviation:** Private Pilot (2024), Night rating (2025), Aerobatics (2025), and Floats (seaplane) (2026); working toward Multi-engine and Commercial
- **Photography:** 305M+ views on Unsplash, founded Montréal Photo Club, shoots DSLR/medium format/large format/infrared
- **Tech:** Email infrastructure, developer tools, SaaS, customer success
- **Other:** Cooking/baking, gardening, 3D printing, cycling, music (guitar, bass)

## Site Architecture

This is a static Astro site hosted on Vercel, with content in Markdown and JSON files and styling in Tailwind CSS v4.

### Page Map

```
/                          → Home and bio
/now                       → Current status (regularly updated)
/now/[date]                → Historical /now snapshots (YYYY-MM-DD)
/dashboard                 → Personal metrics (aviation, Unsplash, shows/movies)
/work                      → Career summary, resume, and recommendations
/work/recommendations      → Testimonials from colleagues, reports, and customers
/work/how-to-work-with-me  → Personal/professional README
/projects                  → Active projects
/projects/cemetery         → Retired projects graveyard
/photography               → Photography links
/contact                   → Contact; /contact/{generic,photography} forms (protected by Vercel BotID)
/feed.xml                  → RSS feed of /now entries
```

### Data Sources

- **Unsplash API** — Download and view statistics, fetched at each deploy
- **BetaSeries API** — Episodes watched, fetched at each deploy
- **Foreflight** — Aviation statistics (updated by hand)
- **IMDB** — Shows and movies seen (updated by hand)

### Content

- Content lives in `src/content/`: long-form pages and /now entries as Markdown; link cards, experience, and recommendations as JSON. Navigation is in `src/lib/site.ts`.
- Foreflight stats are in `src/content/flying.json`.

## Retired Projects (Cemetery)

MSFS Flightlog, User Journey as a Product (2019-2020), BestPricingPages (2019), Drones Nation (2015-2017), VYSUAL.ORG (2013-2017), Adopte un Français (2014), and McRoach Network (2008-2013).

## Important Notes for Agents

- The site uses self-hosted Umami analytics at analytics.jpvalery.com.
- The copyright footer reads `© 1992—[current year]` (1992 is Jp's birth year).
- The brand includes a raccoon icon, a motif shared with Raccoon Ventures.
- Dark and light mode are both supported.