Jason Ardell
Director Of Engineering at TEDxBreckenridge
Silverthorne, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJason Ardell is a Director of Engineering with 16 years of experience building and scaling products at the intersection of software and machine learning, currently leading technology, ML, infrastructure, and security for a logistics intelligence platform. He blends strategic planning and hands-on engineering—architecting full-stack systems, driving SOC 2 compliance, and mentoring teams to deliver maintainable, production-grade ML and data solutions. Jason’s background includes founding startups, leading early-stage MVPs, and modernizing infrastructure from co-located servers to AWS, giving him a strong operational perspective on reliability and cost-effective scaling. He has deep experience integrating diverse data sources and surfacing bias-aware ML models into customer-facing products. Based in Silverthorne, Colorado, he also contributes to his community as Co-Executive Director of TEDxBreckenridge, applying product and team-building skills to nonprofit event strategy and long-term sustainability. Colleagues know him for pragmatism in execution and a knack for turning complex data problems into clear, deployable features.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
image-processing9
proj9
sidekiq9
opencv9
rgeo9
computer-vision9
buildpack8
python8
deep-learning8
geo8
gdal8
background-processing8
ruby8
git-subcommand7
heroku7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ardell/active_record_rate_limiter
Apr 2016 - Dec 2021
A simple rate limiter backed by ActiveRecord.
Contributions:28 commits, 16 PRs, 46 pushes in 5 years 9 months
activerecord
shiplify/measure_string_similarity
Jan 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:1 review, 40 PRs, 53 pushes in 9 years 6 months
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