Jason Kelly
VP Of Engineering at Upwave
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJason 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
15 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Geographic Information Systems, Certificate, Geographic Information Systems at University of WashingtonBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (21)
3d9
svg8
javascript8
webgl8
augmented-reality7
virtual-reality7
canvas7
kinvey6
react6
google-cloud-storage6
gson6
sql6
android6
iphone6
google-app-engine6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jk6/bugz-redux
Sep 2017 - Nov 2021
Bug-tracking app built with React and Redux
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
reactbuilt-with-reactreact-reduxbug-trackingtracking
jk6/ultimate-todo-list
Mar 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
material-uireactmobx
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