Jared Bates
Senior Software Engineer at Jack Henry
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJared Bates is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading engineering teams at Sight & Sound, where he shepherds the custom ticketing platform, call center CRM, and numerous internal systems. He progressed from systems administrator to DevOps lead and development manager, driving the company’s migration to AWS and managing EKS, RDS, VPC, MSK, and AWS CDK-powered infrastructure while owning PCI and security initiatives. Jared blends hands-on Java and TypeScript development with DevOps, CI/CD, and security best practices, and he still enjoys mentoring engineers and shaping delivery processes. His engineering journey began at age 12 modding Minecraft, which seeded a lifelong appetite for learning that shows in his wide technical breadth. Based in Missouri, he pairs practical operational experience with platform-level thinking to deliver reliable, secure customer-facing systems. Colleagues know him for translating stakeholder needs into maintainable, auditable solutions and for investing in the team that makes those solutions possible.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Southwest Baptist University
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Github Skills (200)
minecraft10
cms10
postgresql10
api-client10
custom-ui10
web-performance10
rest-client10
openapi-generator10
wearables10
rest-api10
backend10
openapi10
auth10
javascript10
directus10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
sightsoundtheatres/mposCalculator
Mar 2022 - Oct 2025
Simple React calculator app for D365 MPOS
Contributions:1 review, 4 pushes in 3 years 7 months
reactreact-calculatormposcalculatorcalculator-app
computerwizjared/XiTickets-Frontend
Jul 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:103 pushes, 5 branches, 1 issue in 2 years 7 months
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