About Badlands Software
Billings, MT · Enterprise software consulting & custom development
Who We Are
My name is Jason — a software developer based in Billings, MT with over 20 years of enterprise software development experience. Day-to-day I lead engineering teams building high-performance distributed systems on AWS, with a current focus on Scala service development, AI integration, ClickHouse analytics, and advanced reliability, performance, and load balancing architecture. At a process level I'm obsessed with applying rigorous engineering discipline to software: critical path analysis, realistic scheduling, and accurate forecasting.
Over the course of my career I've spent significant time on the Microsoft stack — C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, WPF, and Roslyn — so I'm equally comfortable on both sides of the Microsoft and JVM divide. Whether a project calls for C# or Scala, Azure or AWS, the engineering fundamentals are the same.
Badlands Software is my outlet for applying that enterprise background to real-world problems for businesses and individuals — building clean, high-quality solutions while staying sharp on emerging technologies.
If you could use an experienced hand on a project, I'd love to hear about it.
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Our Story
My wife and I grew up on ranches in eastern Montana and attended MSU-Bozeman, where I earned my degree in Computer Science. After a few years in Denver we returned home as soon as the opportunity came. I've spent more than 20 years writing enterprise software — and I'm just as energized by it today as I was at the start.
The arrival of AI reasoning models marks a genuine inflection point in what software can accomplish. Where traditional algorithms require every decision path to be explicitly defined, modern reasoning models work through ambiguous, multi-step problems the way a skilled expert would — forming hypotheses, testing them against evidence, and refining their conclusions. This unlocks solutions to problems that were previously considered impossibly complex: extracting structure from unstructured data, autonomous decision pipelines, intelligent analysis at massive scale, and multi-variable optimization that once required teams of specialists. Paired with platforms like ClickHouse — capable of sub-second analytical queries across billions of rows — the combination of AI reasoning and high-performance data infrastructure makes entire categories of formerly intractable problems suddenly approachable. We are at the very beginning of understanding what this means. My goal is to bring that capability to the Big Sky.
I love learning and helping people — Badlands Software is my outlet for both.