Jack Tarantino
Senior Software Engineer II at American Express
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJack Tarantino is a Senior Software Engineer II with 13 years of experience building and leading web engineering teams across startups and large enterprises, currently driving platform-level JavaScript/TypeScript work at American Express in New York. He blends deep frontend expertise—from HTML/CSS and React to legacy frameworks like Backbone and Ember—with hands-on contributions to major open projects and browser tooling, and is recognized for improving performance and build efficiency at scale. A generative AI and AI-security specialist, Jack has designed and operated large local LLM clusters and created tailored LLM-based services for gaming and therapy use cases. He’s equally committed to mentorship and community building, running meetups, conferences, and internal learning programs while mentoring hundreds of engineers. Unusually, his background spans photography, medicine, magic, crypto trading and linguistics, which informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to product and architecture.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, French, Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, French, Linguistics at Michigan State University
Github Skills (88)
jquery-plugin10
infinite-scroll10
commitizen10
testing10
javascript10
angular-module10
ajax10
media-queries10
command-line-utility10
facebook10
frontend10
semantic-versioning10
gulp9
bootstrap9
utilities9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jacopotarantino/Lovelace
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:77 commits, 4 PRs, 68 pushes in 2 months
agnosticcsscomponent-frameworkui-componentstyleguide
jacopotarantino/ng-optimizely
Nov 2014 - May 2017
Integrate AngularJS and Optimizely
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 6 months
angularjsoptimizely
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.