James Westover
Founder & CTO @Neher Data Systems
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WORK HISTORY
Founder & CTO @Neher Data Systems
Built the thing I sell.Westover Labs is both a consulting practice and a live proof of concept. I run a 12-persona AI agent team — Elsie (senior dev), Werner (infrastructure), Clara (code review), Friedrich (project management), Gottfried (developer experience), Marlene (marketing), and others — that ships production code autonomously across multiple projects simultaneously.What the system does without me watching: code review, infrastructure deployment, ticket management, content generation, security research, CI/CD pipeline execution.What I shipped with it: Ghost Hunter (iOS paranormal detection app, live in App Store), SkinVault (iOS photo privacy app, live in App Store), FastAPI inference backends, ONNX runtime pipelines, Ansible infrastructure as code, Cloudflare tunnel configuration, App Store metadata and submission automation.Stack: Python, FastAPI, ONNX Runtime, React Native, Expo, Ansible, Cloudflare, Tailscale, PostgreSQL with pgvector, DuckDB, PyMC (Bayesian modeling), Claude API.This is the deliverable I build for clients — customized to their domain, documented for their team, and designed to keep running after the engagement ends.
EDUCATION
University of Rochester
BS, Physics, Applied Mathematics
University of Central Florida
MS, Physics
University of Central Florida
PhD, Physics
Quantic School of Business and Technology
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
SKILLS
ABOUT JAMES WESTOVER
Most companies will spend 18 months hiring an AI team and another year building something brittle. I do it in 3-6 months. When the engagement ends, the system keeps running without me.That is not a pitch. It is how I have built things my entire career.At Uber, I helped run a navigation platform handling 10M+ requests per second across 1,400 nodes per data center. I founded the Python Platform team from scratch and led the company-wide migration of 400+ microservices from Python 2 to Python 3 — every team, every service, no rollbacks, no incidents. Code I wrote is still running on every Uber driver\'s phone.At HERE Technologies, I built an autonomous driving capture team from 2 engineers to 14. Real-time fleet telemetry at continental scale. The goal from day one: design the system so it does not need its creator watching.That is the through-line. Uber\'s routing platform does not have a human approving every route. HERE\'s telemetry pipeline does not have someone monitoring every vehicle. The AI agent team I built at Westover Labs — 12 specialized personas, autonomous PR creation, persona routing, 24/7 code deployment — does not have me watching every commit.I build things that operate without me. That is the whole idea.What this means for you:I take on 3-6 month engagements where I design and build custom AI infrastructure tailored to your specific workflows. At the end, you have a working system, complete documentation, and a team that knows how to run it. You do not get a retainer dependency. You get infrastructure.Engagements include- Autonomous agent teams configured for your domain- Production ML inference, not demos- Infrastructure as code so your team owns it after I leave- Knowledge graphs that preserve every architectural decisionPhysicist. MBA. Staff Engineer at Uber. German national with 10 years in US big tech, now in Berlin working with European companies that want to build AI infrastructure before their competitors do.The math is simple: I cost more per month than a mid-level hire. I deliver in 3 months what that hire would spend 5 years building. The system maintains itself.Interested? j••••@westover.dev
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