Jared Greene is a pragmatic software leader with 10 years of experience building high-impact, technically complex systems, currently leading software at an energy startup in Austin aiming to stabilize the power grid. He has deep systems and backend expertise from roles at SpaceX—where he led the Laser Topology team, shipped obstruction detection for Starlink terminals, and owned optical/installation responsibilities—and earlier work driving robotics backend and hardware-software integration at Opentrons. Jared is an active contributor to the Celo blockchain project, having improved transaction pool logic, performance, and currency exchange integrations in a major open-source Golang repo. He blends hands-on engineering (drivers, simulations, and distributed systems) with team leadership and product delivery, favoring projects that are both technical and materially impactful. His background includes research on internet access in indigenous communities for the Marconi Society, reflecting a wider interest in technology’s societal effects. Collected across aerospace, biotech robotics, blockchain, and energy, his career shows a pattern of tackling hard technical problems at system scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Columbia University
Official repository for the golang Celo Blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily contributed to the core logic of the Celo blockchain, focusing on the transaction pool and currency exchange rate mechanisms. Their work involved debugging and fixing issues within the transaction pool, optimizing performance, and implementing currency conversion functionalities. Additionally, the user worked on the integration of smart contract calls, including validator set retrieval, demonstrating a strong understanding of the blockchain's inner workings. The user's contributions also included refactoring code and writing tests to ensure the reliability of the blockchain's functionalities.
Contributions:97 commits, 2 PRs, 56 pushes in 3 months
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Jared Greene - Head Of Software at Base Power Company