About Heliome

Heliome is on your side.

We're the team building Home Advocate, the private Mac app that helps your household stand up for itself.

Jonathan Blocksom

Founder

Jonathan started Heliome to help customers access the power of AI without contributing to data centers or giving up their privacy to Big Tech. Jonathan spent a decade leading engineering for consumer products at Capital One, including the flagship iOS app and Eno chatbot. He has a track record of delivering world-class experiences built on secure and safe infrastructure to millions of customers.

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Wayan Vota

Growth Lead

Wayan has spent three decades taking technology to market in some of the hardest markets on Earth: emerging economies. As a capture and proposal lead, he has helped win $348M+ in institutional funding. He previously led USAID’s AI practice and helped bring open-source digital health systems to national scale. At Heliome, he leads growth, connecting household needs with product priorities and building the relationships and funding needed to reach more homes.

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Jeff Biggus

Principal Engineer

Jeff focuses on making demanding local software feel native, fast, efficient, and dependable on consumer Apple and Android hardware. Jeff recently led scientific computing teams building on-device machine learning for hearing aids and has also designed and shipped dozens of apps as an independent developer. Jeff brings a deep knowledge of high performance computing and local LLMs to the team.

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