JP Beaudry
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder · NEXTGRES
JP Beaudry is co-founder and CTO of NEXTGRES, which makes Postgres run MySQL workloads without a line of code rewritten, after serving as CTO of edX, 2U and JustAnswer.
Story
JP studied electrical engineering at Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, then headed engineering organizations at Cisco Systems and later at Cimpress, where he led the business agility transformation of the Vistaprint line of business. He joined edX as VP of Engineering in September 2019 and became its CTO; when 2U acquired edX in 2021 he took over as CTO of the public company. He moved to JustAnswer in 2022, running technology for its expert marketplace. He now builds NEXTGRES from Ambler, Pennsylvania with co-founder and CEO Jonah H. Harris, and writes regularly on where large language models actually work in enterprise systems.
Highlights
- CTO, 2U, Inc. (NASDAQ) following its 2021 acquisition of edX
- CTO, JustAnswer/Pearl, 2022
- Senior engineering leader, Cimpress; engineering organizations at Cisco Systems
- MBA, Babson College; MSc telecommunications, Boston University
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