Jared Willey
Principal AI/Cloud Architect · Full-Stack Developer
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Professional summary
Principal AI/Cloud Architect with a Master's in AI/ML, building predictive-maintenance and full-stack systems that turn decades of data into decisions. I work across Azure, Next.js, and PyTorch, and I'm comfortable translating deep technical work for senior, non-technical leadership. Security-cleared, and at my best turning hard problems into dependable, production-grade systems.
Where I've worked
Principal AI/Cloud Architect
- Lead development of an AI-powered predictive-maintenance platform for defense aviation, shifting maintenance from reactive to proactive.
- Architect and implement ML models (survival analysis, time-series forecasting) delivering meaningful accuracy gains over baseline methods.
- Build full-stack tooling and dashboards with Next.js, TypeScript, and Azure cloud services.
- Sole technical advisor briefing senior military leadership on capabilities and readiness decisions.
Freelance Full-Stack Developer
- Built web applications including Skincare by Carson (with Vagaro booking integration).
- Created Advanced JSON Comparator, an open-source developer tool.
- Built Custom Fortune Wheel, a Godot event game with dual-monitor support.
- Delivered full-stack solutions with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and various databases.
Senior Capstone — Epic Games Partnership
- Developed an Unreal Engine plugin with Epic Games engineers, improving developer workflows ~50%.
- Optimized game performance via C++ debugging, increasing framerates ~30%.
- Led Agile sprints across a 5-member team.
What I studied
M.S. Computer Science (AI/ML)
Western Governors University
B.S. Computer Science
NC State University
Raleigh, NC · Minor: Business Administration
Certifications & clearances
Secret Security Clearance
U.S. Department of Defense
AWS Machine Learning Specialty
Amazon Web Services
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA
Technical skills
Programming Languages
AI/ML & Cloud
Frontend & Frameworks
Backend & DevOps
Game Development
Methodologies
Key achievements
Meaningful accuracy gains over baseline in a defense predictive-maintenance platform.
Briefed senior military leadership on AI capabilities and readiness.
~30% framerate optimization via C++ at the Epic Games partnership.
~50% developer-workflow improvement via an Unreal Engine plugin.
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