Hello, I'm Jarod Stewart

Sr. Software Engineer | Entrepreneurial | Always learning | Fun Lovin' Guy

Boulder, Colorado

Skillset

AWS for Serverless
Serverless (FAAS)
Micro-Service Architecture
GraphQL
Agile Methodologies
TDD

Social Profiles

About

I am product-focused, a technical problem solver, a logic based decision maker, and I'm not afraid to dig into new technologies (if they will solve the problem best).

I consider myself entrepreneurially oriented and love startups. I’m an avid Hacker News reader and Product Hunter; anything to stay up to date on the latest and greatest.

I co-founded Reactor Inc. developers of Winston for iPhone, an app that further connects you to your friends and world around you. We created an audio visual experience to absorb content that we typically read from social media or news sites. I was the second member of the team and hacked together a PHP prototype and then later a Node.js build during DreamIt Ventures’ NYC 2012 program.

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Yonomi

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Experienced

I studied and worked at...

Career

Senior Software Engineer

Building features and tools from thought to production.

  • Node with Express & Serverless
  • DynamoDB
  • Jest
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    Yonomi

    July 2017

    Senior Software Engineer

    Designing and Architecting new serverless microservice architecture for ease of product development.

    Created design proposals for new microservice based architecture that will one day replace crufty megalithic apps and let 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 and Flask.

    Simple Energy

    January 2017 - July 2017

    Software Engineer

    Building features and tools from thought to production.

  • Python, Django, Flask
  • Celery, RabitMQ, Redis
  • JavaScript, Gulp
  • Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL
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    Simple Energy

    March 2016 – January 2017

    Software Engineer

    Building features and tools from thought to production.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Angular
  • Coffeescript
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Sidekiq
  • Heroku
    •

    Conspire

    December 2014 – November 2015

    Software Engineer

    Creating SendGrid Internal tools and services.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • TDD
  • MySQL
  • Getting my toes wet with Go
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    SendGrid

    October 2013 – November 2014

    Associate 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 2013

    Co-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.)
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    Reactor Labs

    October 2011 – November 2012

    Test 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 2010

    Education

    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.

    University of Colorado at Boulder

    2011

    Playing

    Things I have made or worked on in the past...

    SendGrid

    Support Website
    DreamIt Ventures NYC

    DreamIt 2012 NYC

    Startup Incubator Program
    Winston iPhone App

    Winston iPhone App

    Reactor Labs

    Contact Me

    Reach out, let's grab some Boxcar.