Boulder, Colorado
About
Jarod Stewart is a growth-minded servant leader that aligns opportunities with goals and diligently learns from failures. He is a highly skilled Engineering Leader with over ten years of professional software engineering experience and a strong background in managing teams in fast-paced startup environments.
He is passionate about making a positive impact through technology. As a growth-minded leader, he builds and scales engineering teams, ensures high-quality code, and fosters creativity. In his downtime, Jarod enjoys learning new technologies and exploring innovative ways to enhance engineering processes.
Outside of work, Jarod spends time with his family, fly-fishing, snowboarding, and enjoying all that Colorado has to offer.
Advising and growing engineering teams
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Software Engineering Advisor
Advising on best practices
Nia Growth
October 2022 - PRESENTPrincipal Serverless Platform Engineer
Developing and scaling Suite's Platform
Suite Studio
October 2022 - March 2023Software Engineering Manager
Growing teams & engineers
- Giving engineers & tech leads the tools, confidence, and motivation to make wise decisions.
- Maintain a balance between building sustainable high-impact projects and shipping quickly.
- Instilling best practices and providing coaching and mentorship.
Yonomi
July 2019 - February 2022Senior Software Engineer
I built features and tools from thought to production. Was an early champion of Agile Methodologies, TDD, CI/CD, and instilling engineering best practices.
- Typescript with GraphQL & Serverless
- DynamoDB
- Jest
- CI/CD, CircleCI
Yonomi
July 2017 - July 2019Senior Software Engineer
Designing and Architecting new serverless microservice architecture for ease of product development.
Created design proposals for new microservice based architecture that allowed the company be more agile in new product development.
Developed Simple Energy's Rebates as a Service, improving margins and cutting costs by implementing on AWS Lambda with Zappa.
Simple Energy
January 2017 - July 2017Software Engineer
Building features and tools from thought to production.
- Python, Django, Flask
- Celery, RabitMQ, Redis
- JavaScript, Gulp
- Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL
Simple Energy
March 2016 – January 2017Software Engineer
Building features and tools from thought to production.
- Ruby on Rails
- Angular
- Coffeescript
- Postgres
- Redis
- Sidekiq
- Heroku
Conspire
December 2014 – November 2015Software Engineer
Creating SendGrid Internal tools and services.
- Ruby on Rails
- TDD
- MySQL
- Getting my toes wet with Go
SendGrid
October 2013 – November 2014Associate Software Engineer
Created tools and processes to efficiently scale customer support efforts while also providing excellent customer service by responding to technical support requests.
SendGrid
February 2013 – October 2013Co-Founder and Backend Engineer
Winston is your well-informed friend who reports the news you care about from your social streams and favorite news feeds. He delivers personalized news and social content as a narrated, audiovisual presentation that you can enjoy on your iPhone.
We used Node.js and MongoDB.
We were accepted into DreamIt Venture's NYC 2012 startup accelerator program.
- REST API design in Node.js
- MongoDB architecture
- AWS (EC2, S3, Route53, etc.)
- Social Network APIs (fb, twitter)
- Agile dev environment
- News aggregation and abstract generation
- Experienced with many other APIs. (ESPN, Wunderground, Yahoo misc., Google misc., etc.)
Reactor Labs
October 2011 – November 2012Test Automation Student Contractor
Designed and enhanced internal web based applications and test tools in ASP.NET, PHP, Javascript and XSL/XML.
Programmed with in-house test scripting language and Java to stress-test high-performance storage systems.
Test Automation Lab Administrator, duties included: maintaining documents, maintenance, troubleshooting hardware and software errors, installations, orders and developed a web-based tool to manage hardware and power consumption.
I used and learned a lot of tools: Java, PHP, ASP.NET, Javascript, XML/XSL
LSI Corporation
August 2008 – May 2010Education
Bachelors of Arts in Economics
Studying Economics allowed me to develop my analytical skills and allowed me to continue playing around with computer science stuff on the side, from my internship at LSI to many different programming classes.