Jared Harper
Principal Engineer at SolarWinds
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorJared Harper is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and operating highly available, high-throughput distributed systems for metric and telemetry workloads. He has driven data pipeline and ingress API reliability at companies like SolarWinds, Librato, and Boundary, and has led engineering teams through fast-paced startup growth and stealth-mode product development. Jared pairs hands-on coding across languages and stacks with architectural leadership, often tackling scaling, observability, and uptime challenges in production. Based in Bellingham, WA, he blends deep operational experience with a knack for turning customer-facing APIs into robust storage and retrieval systems—an engineer comfortable moving between code-level fixes and strategic system design.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (81)
storage-engine10
librato10
database10
key-value-store10
jinja210
storage10
persistent10
embeddable10
key-value-database10
syntax-highlighting10
lsm-tree9
cvs9
netbsd9
persistent-storage9
openbsd9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
librato/rollout-java
Nov 2013 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 review, 71 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 2 months
lucky/lucky.github.io
Feb 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:8 pushes in 8 years 2 months
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