Hi, I'm Jarrod. I build the platforms other engineers rely on.
Principal Software EngineerPlatform & Site Reliability20 years in production
Open to principal & staff platform / SRE roles
Principal Software EngineerPlatform & Site Reliability20 years in production
Open to principal & staff platform / SRE roles
Complex problems are the fun part. For twenty years I've turned them into systems that ship on time, scale to billions of requests, and hold up long after launch day. No shortcuts, just hard-earned engineering and an obsession with the details others skip.
Built the Logistics division's platform-as-a-service from the ground up — a Heroku-style PaaS running 165+ applications for 200+ engineers, fronted by an API gateway handling 15 billion requests a year — then led the shift to AI-first engineering. more…
Shipped client products for a consultancy later acquired by Salesforce — the Ikon Pass e-commerce storefront for Alterra, and the proof-of-performance platform that retired Clear Channel Outdoor's century-old Polaroid-and-mail workflow. more…
Architected the move from legacy Java to Rails, React, and React Native on in-store handheld devices — cutting deployment cycles from 5+ days to under 2 for Home Depot's merchandising teams. more…
Built SFAPI, a greenfield Rails service brokering post-auction paperwork between Manheim's online platforms and rate-limited AS400 legacy systems — accept fast, queue durably, retry safely. It was still in service six years later. more…
My first formal lead role — hired and led the team that automatically listed Magento merchants' catalogs, tens of thousands of SKUs at a time, on the Amazon Marketplace, taking on far better-funded competitors from a seed-stage startup. more…
Became the de facto technical voice on a 20-developer, full-time-pairing team, hardening a consultant-built single-page-app prototype into a production marketplace where dealers traded millions of vehicles — and skipped the auction. more…
Among the first employees at the startup rebuilding PlayOn after Turner Broadcasting — architected the video platform, then ran field production operations for live high-school sports. That platform is now the NFHS Network, streaming more live events than anyone in the world. more…
Web developer in Turner Sports New Media — on PlayOn Sports from day one, then nba.com in the League Pass era, building early video-engagement telemetry — until the PlayOn brand left Turner, and I followed it. more…
Started as an unpaid intern posting game recaps; left running georgiadogs.com — a full replatform, a redesign, and GXtra, a subscription streaming service years ahead of its time — all while finishing my degree. more…