Jared Knipp
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Root Inc.
Amarillo, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJared Knipp is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years building and leading engineering teams across payments, distributed systems, and full-stack web platforms. He blends hands-on expertise in Elixir/Phoenix and Ruby/Rails with deep experience in Kafka, messaging systems, and cloud infrastructure to deliver scalable, reliable production systems. As a former Director and Senior Director, he has grown organizations rapidly (50% expansion), managed managers across 25+ people, and driven architecture changes that cut support costs and improved resiliency. Jared has shipped greenfield products that reached $1M+ ARR and maintains notable open-source work in the payments ecosystem, including contributions to ActiveMerchant and the Spreedly Elixir package. Comfortable as both a technical lead and an individual contributor, he prefers startup and fast-paced environments where he can be a generalist and set engineering culture. Based in Amarillo, Texas, he’s led fully remote teams since 2017 and is skilled at turning complex payment and integration challenges into operational solutions.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at Texas Tech UniversityMBA Computer Information Systems, MBA Computer Information Systems at West Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (18)
ajax10
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ruby10
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ruby-on-rails6
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spring-boot6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Feb 2017 - Feb 2020
Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 27 commits, 55 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jared contributed to the Active Merchant library by implementing and improving payment gateway integrations. They added support for new features such as Android Pay metadata for Braintree, the Stored Credentials Framework for Orbital, and ACH/ECP payments for BlueSnap. The user also addressed bugs and improved existing integrations by fixing issues with Openpay and making enhancements to existing gateways like TrustCommerce and PaymentExpress, expanding multi-currency support and providing enhanced information.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
jknipp/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 4 months
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