Jared Hughes
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJared Hughes is a Lead Software Engineer based in Dallas with nine years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems across fintech, telecom, and infrastructure firms. He has driven cloud transformation and microservice architectures using Azure, Google Cloud, .NET Core, Kubernetes and modern front-end stacks, consistently moving teams from legacy to scalable CI/CD pipelines. At Motorola and Capital One he progressed from hands-on service development to technical leadership, and as a consultant at Digital Realty he delivered bespoke cloud applications. An active open-source contributor, he improved UI and performance for the popular code-golf project by implementing client-side diffs and TypeScript refactors to handle long-line performance and truncation. Jared pairs pragmatic engineering with a game-developer’s attention to UX—an unusual background that informs his focus on performant, user-friendly tooling. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
English
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Github Skills (14)
algorithm10
css10
algorithms10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
diff310
typescript-types10
react9
performance-optimization9
github-ci3
fest3
githubaction-workflow3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
code-golf/code-golf
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
A game designed to let you show off your code-fu by solving problems in the least number of characters.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 23 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jared significantly contributed to improving the user interface and performance of the "code-golf" platform, focusing on the diff display feature. Their work involved implementing client-side line diffs, character diffs, and arg diffs, enhancing the visual representation of code changes. Furthermore, they optimized the diff functionality, addressing performance issues with long lines and adding the ability to truncate output for performance. Additionally, the user made adjustments to enhance the layout using CSS and refactoring code to TypeScript.
gamesolvingproblemssolving-problemslet
jared-hughes/nuova
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:61 commits in 15 days
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