Kristen Smith 
- Young is leading federal, state and local business growth for the autonomous coding company
- He most recently served as head of federal sales at Niantic Spatial
- His career includes nearly eight years at AWS and more than nine at Google
Jim Young has joined Blitzy as regional vice president for public sector, taking responsibility for the autonomous coding company’s federal, state and local business.
Young announced the move in a LinkedIn post Sept. 14, writing that the public sector is ready for a new era in which agentic AI and faster delivery replace legacy constraints.
His remit covers hiring and developing the team, building executive relationships, aligning product and engineering with security and deployment requirements, establishing procurement pathways, and shaping pipeline and capture discipline.
Young brings more than 30 years of experience in industry and government, serving federal customers across defense, intelligence and civilian markets.
What Background Does Jim Young Bring?
The new public sector VP comes to Blitzy from Niantic Spatial, where he served as head of federal sales for a year.
He spent nearly eight years at Amazon Web Services, most recently as senior manager for joint Department of Defense sales. In that role, he led a team responsible for an AWS defense portfolio worth more than $160 million in annual recurring revenue, with two of the company’s largest defense customers among its accounts. Earlier at AWS, he worked as a principal account executive and senior sales account executive on defense cloud migrations.
Before that, Young spent more than nine years at Google as its Defense Department sales manager, covering the military services, defense agencies and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He also held roles at Improbable, Websense, EMC and the Walt Disney Company.
What Does Blitzy Do?
Blitzy is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It builds an agentic AI platform for enterprise software development designed to generate code and work with existing codebases.
Blitzy said its platform produces roughly 80 percent of a software road map autonomously, with human engineers completing the remainder. The company was founded in 2023 by CEO Brian Elliott, a former Army Ranger and West Point graduate, and CTO Sid Pardeshi, who spent more than seven years at NVIDIA.
