Justin Beaudry

I am a Toledo boomerang. I spent a decade building for high-growth startups and large enterprise in the SF Bay Area and Austin before making the deliberate choice to move back home. I’m here to bridge the gap between Silicon Valley scale and the talent in Northwest Ohio. What I am doing now: Directing Engineering: Leading teams at Actual Reality Technologies and EmpoweredAI to build generative AI solutions and high-throughput data systems. Building Community: I founded Toledo Codes and the AI Collective Toledo Chapter. While I have transitioned out of leading the local chapter, I am now focused on expanding the AI Collective across the Midwest. I’m always down to talk about the transition from legacy dev workflows to AI-first systems, how we continue making Toledo a destination for world-class tech, and what happens to our relationship with code as we move toward orchestrating complex language and world models.