Jared Bentvelsen
Software Engineer at ExaCare AI
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Bentvelsen is a software engineer with seven years of experience building cloud-native developer tools and backend systems, currently at ExaCare AI in Vancouver. He spent multiple years at AWS contributing to the SAM CLI and a Rust-based query engine that powers Amazon Q, demonstrating fluency in Typescript, Python, and Rust across both developer tooling and serverless deployment flows. His open-source contributions to the widely used aws-sam-cli include feature enhancements, architecture validations for Lambda layers, and expanded test coverage, reflecting a strong focus on reliability and developer experience. An experienced mentor and educator from his years as a university teaching assistant, Jared pairs practical engineering with clear communication—an asset carried over from earlier roles improving static analysis tooling and even lifeguard supervision. He’s equally comfortable iterating on CLI UX, debugging build pipelines, or optimizing deployment tarball generation, and often surfaces subtle infrastructure edge-cases before they reach users.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor's of Engineering Software Engineering at McMaster University
Github Skills (10)
serverless10
docker10
aws10
python10
dockers10
cicd9
testing9
yaml9
api-gateway9
boto9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sam-cli
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
CLI tool to build, test, debug, and deploy Serverless applications using AWS SAM
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:129 reviews, 12 commits, 30 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jared contributed to the AWS SAM CLI, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes. Their work includes adding features like multiple values per key for CfnTag parameters and improving the tarball generation process for Docker context. They also implemented architecture validations for LambdaLayer builds and addressed issues related to parameter overrides during sam sync, demonstrating a strong understanding of serverless application deployment and build processes. Additionally, they contributed to the test suite, adding new integration and unit tests.
api-gatewayclipythonserverless-applicationsserverless
dimitritsampiras/olympian-mobile-app
Oct 2022 - Apr 2023
Health and Fitness App
Contributions:51 reviews, 91 PRs, 125 pushes in 5 months
reacthealthjavascriptfirebasefitness
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