Jared Armstrong is a seasoned engineering leader and consultant with over 14 years of hands-on experience and a 25+ year trajectory scaling SaaS platforms and engineering teams. Based in Dayton, Ohio, he has held progressive roles from web developer to CIO and VP of Engineering, blending deep DevOps/DevSecOps expertise with product and solution architecture. Jared has led engineering organizations at Files.com and steered cloud security and operations practices at ENHALO and CenterGrid, consistently focusing on reliable, secure, and scalable systems. He contributes to open-source projects—improving documentation and usability for high-performance Scala web frameworks—showing attention to developer experience as well as code. Known for turning operational complexity into repeatable processes, he pairs strategic leadership with practical implementation skills. Jared’s background in MIS and long tenure across startups and product companies give him a pragmatic, systems-oriented perspective that accelerates delivery.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at Wright State University
Tiny Scala high-performance, async web framework, inspired by Sinatra
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:19 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:Jared primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying documentation, particularly for the 2.0.0 version. They updated the introduction, getting-to-know-scalatra, contributing, deployment, testing, and organizing your application sections. Additionally, the user implemented a JavaScript-based table of contents for the book and updated the directory structure. They also fixed a null pointer error and added a redirect.
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