Jason Kelly is a seasoned engineering executive based in Seattle with 10+ years leading product and technology teams across startups and Fortune 500s, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Upwave. He pairs founder-level experience—having co-founded and scaled a digital innovation firm through acquisition—with deep hands-on skills in full-stack development (React, TypeScript, C#, .NET Core) and cloud-native architectures. Jason has repeatedly taken zero-to-one products from concept to production in domains that blend hardware and software—industrial robotics, drones, agtech, and consumer electronics—often unifying embedded, frontend, backend and data systems. He has led global engineering organizations at AWS, AirMap and BCG Digital Ventures, and advised a robotics startup building mission planning with generative AI. Known for bridging product, business and technical strategy, he combines practical systems expertise with a knack for customer discovery and commercialization.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Geographic Information Systems, Certificate Geographic Information Systems at University of Washington
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Iowa State University
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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Jason Kelly - VP Of Engineering at Fremont Robotics