Jason Westra
Sr. AI ML Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Fort Collins Area United States
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Top SchoolJason Westra is a senior AI/ML architect and technology leader with 25+ years of experience designing scalable SaaS, IoT, and cloud platforms for startups and Fortune 500s. He combines hands-on architecture and product leadership—co-founding two startups and building a globally awarded, statewide traffic intelligence platform used across Colorado—to translate business goals into enterprise-wide technical strategy. At AWS he advised founders and C-suite leaders on GenAI, agentic systems, and model selection, and now continues that work as Sr. AI/ML Architect at Snowflake. Known for bridging complex engineering and clear business outcomes, he focuses on operationalizing AI and cloud-native platforms while mentoring teams to adopt modern practices. Based in Fort Collins, he brings a rare mix of transportation IoT heritage and current GenAI platform expertise that helps organizations move from prototypes to production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Finance, B.A, Finance at Gustavus Adolphus CollegeOwatonna High School
Github Skills (32)
datastax-java-driver9
broker8
aio8
message-queue8
connected8
lorawan8
messaging8
mqtt-protocol7
pubsub7
tower7
5g7
software-update7
emqx7
erlang7
iiot7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kritek/Troilus
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:29 pushes in 1 day
client-libraryjavacassandrajava-client
1and1/Troilus
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Troilus is a Java client library for Cassandra.
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 month
cassandraclient-libraryreactive-streamsjavajava-client
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