Jared David
Chief Technology Officer at Split Arrow Solutions
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared David is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer with 8 years of professional software experience and a longer history of engineering across LAMP, Python, Node.js, and security-focused tooling. He blends strategic leadership—hiring, roadmap planning, and growth execution—with deep implementation skills, having led scanning and Web Application Firewall work on Automattic’s high-profile Jetpack project. Jared’s background includes building cyber-defense platforms that analyze big data for network threats and hardening web apps through logging, auditing, and secure architecture. Comfortable across stacks and environments, he moves between management and code, mentoring engineers while still shipping tests, CLI tools, and refactors himself. Based in Michigan and forged in both military satellite communications and commercial security engineering, he brings a pragmatic, security-first mindset to product-focused teams.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Technology at Liberty University
English
Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
php10
waf10
plugin10
cli9
api9
testing8
javascript4
react3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 6 commits, 13 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily worked on implementing and improving the Web Application Firewall (WAF) functionality within the Jetpack plugin. Their commits included adding action hooks, CLI commands, and unit tests for the WAF feature. They also refactored code, fetched rules from an API, and fixed issues related to output sanitization, and setting up/deactivating the WAF.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
jwidavid/music-tracker
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:71 PRs, 61 pushes, 21 branches in 1 month
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