Meet the Staff

Jeffrey Scruggs is an AI and machine learning engineer, entrepreneur and community builder based in Baltimore. In 2023 he founded Majestic Light Group, an AI consulting and software development company, and he runs it as CEO. Illuminate Baltimore is a Majestic Light Group project.

He is also chief technology officer of Venture for T.H.E.M., an HBCU-focused entrepreneurship accelerator, where he built Fund.FWD, an AI-powered app that helps HBCU students and entrepreneurs find funding. Black Enterprise featured the app.

As an engineer he has built computer vision systems for the Pentagon and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, and he now works on data projects for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Outside of work he organizes community events. In February 2025 he led the Underground Railroad Commemorative Walk in Windsor Mill, a Black History Month kickoff that brought more than 190 registered walkers along historic Rolling Road to Emmarts United Methodist Church, a documented Underground Railroad safehouse. That July he organized a John Lewis Day of Action in Woodlawn, a day of service honoring the late congressman.

He speaks about AI and tech literacy, from a Diversitech 2024 workshop on building a ChatGPT bot with your own data to a BLK Tech Connect panel on AI and Black tech entrepreneurs. Technical.ly named him a 2025 RealLIST Innovator.

He holds a master's in software engineering from the University of Advancing Technology and a bachelor's in transportation systems engineering from Morgan State University.