Boulder, Colorado
About
Jarod is a growth minded servant leader that aligns oppertunities with goals and dilligently learns from failures.
He is an effective communicator, listener, and challenges the status quo, relentlessly looking for the next process change to be more effective.
Bringing post-production to the cloud
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Career
Principal Serverless Platform Engineer
Developing and scaling Suite's Platform
Suite Studio
October 2022 - PresentSoftware 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.
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.
Simple Energy
March 2016 – January 2017Software Engineer
Building features and tools from thought to production.
Conspire
December 2014 – November 2015Software Engineer
Creating SendGrid Internal tools and services.
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.
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.