User:Jszmajda

Hi! I'm Jess! I currently work at AWS. Previously I was the CTO at Axios, and before that CTO at Optoro, a company I helped co-found, for 9 years. I've been in tech since the 90's and have led all kinds of teams from super early stage through growth and now major enterprise.

Outside of work I have a kid, love to write and play music, perform improv, play video games, and most of all connect with people.

I'm the founder of the DCTech Slack, We're a 10k+ person Slack for the DCTech community. It's free and open to all, hope to see you there!

I currently live in DC (Capitol Hill). I was born here and grew up in MD (Beltsville, Bowie). I lived in the Berkshires in western MA for 8 years and, among other things, built a wireless ISP in Adams, MA.