Jared Folkins
Very Senior Technical Engineer at Counter Hack
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorJared Folkins is a Very Senior Technical Engineer with 16 years of full-stack experience, currently shaping defensive engineering and product at CounterHack in Bend, Oregon. He moves comfortably between infrastructure, application code, and database tinkering—equally at home writing container recipes, crafting artisanal SQL, or hardening systems through offensive-minded testing. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved test accuracy and added benchmarks in the rethinkdb-go driver, showing attention to both correctness and performance. Jared values working alongside highly competent teams and enjoys mentoring through example, bringing pragmatic architecture and hands-on execution to complex problems. Outside of work he volunteers helping men recover from addiction alongside his wife Jaimi, a commitment that reflects his steady, community-oriented leadership.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
golang10
go10
driver10
rethinkdb10
rethinkdb-go10
testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rethinkdb/rethinkdb-go
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Go language driver for RethinkDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jared primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing tests within the Go language driver for RethinkDB. They made changes to improve the accuracy of float assertions in geospatial tests. In addition, they added benchmarks to evaluate performance and implemented setup and teardown functions to properly execute tests.
drivergo-languagerethinkdbgogorethink
jaredfolkins/letemcook
May 2025 - May 2025
Let'em Cook is a platform that helps Ops your Devs
Contributions:99 PRs, 157 pushes, 95 branches in 18 days
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