Summary
Jared Grippe is a seasoned CTO and full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript developer with 17 years of professional experience and over two decades working on the web. He currently leads engineering at JLINC Labs, bringing practical experience from founding a YC-backed startup and serving as Change.org’s first hired engineer where he rebuilt systems for scale and cut CI times dramatically. Jared combines hands-on coding, architecture, and teaching—previous roles include head of engineering and instructor positions where he designed curricula and mentored cohorts into production-ready developers. He’s comfortable across the stack (Postgres, Node.js, Redis, frontend UI work) and has repeatedly turned prototype systems into reliable production services. Based in rural Camptonville, CA, he pairs startup grit with a maker’s background (including hands-on data center build experience) that informs pragmatic, infrastructure-aware engineering decisions. Colleagues know him as a practical technical leader who blurs the line between mentor, architect, and implementer.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Santa Rosa Junior College