Summary
Jared Carey is a Principal Software Engineer based in Boise, Idaho with 11 years of professional software experience and a longer technical career spanning video systems and infrastructure. He has progressed from hands-on video compression and systems engineering at DextriMedia, Microsoft, Intel and Verizon into leadership and principal engineering roles at Elastic, where he’s focused on building and supporting scalable search and observability platforms since 2016. Jared combines deep domain expertise in video and systems-level engineering with customer-facing support experience, giving him a pragmatic perspective on reliability and operational excellence. He’s comfortable translating complex edge-case problems into production-ready solutions and mentoring teams through architecture and incident challenges. A practical problem-solver with a background as an electrician early in his career, he brings both methodical troubleshooting skills and a bias for durable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer