Summary
Jess Likens is a Senior Director of AI Solutions with over two decades of hands-on software and architecture experience and more than 10 years in senior roles driving cloud and application innovation. At 3Cloud she has progressed from cloud architect and technology evangelist to leading the AI solutions organization, helping customers adopt generative AI, autonomous agents, and multimodal systems. Jess blends deep .NET expertise, distributed systems design, and agile transformation with a passion for mentoring and cross-functional collaboration, often stepping back into code and pairing sessions. She has a track record of rearchitecting large e-commerce and enterprise systems under aggressive timelines while institutionalizing test-driven development and DevOps practices. Based in Chesterfield, Missouri, she brings a lifelong fascination with computing—from writing BASIC on an Atari to building modern AI solutions—and a reputation for clear communication and political savvy when navigating complex organizations.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign