Jared Kobos
Senior Front End Engineer at Amazon
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Kobos is a Senior Front-End Engineer with over a decade of experience building performant, large-scale web applications across cloud computing, customer service, and global logistics. He focuses on scalable UI architecture and modern tooling to raise engineering standards and consistently ship reliable user experiences. Jared has contributed to prominent open-source projects like Linode’s Manager—improving React/TypeScript interfaces and UX persistence—and helped rebuild documentation and themes for Linode’s docs. His career includes senior roles at Amazon and Zendesk, where he translated complex backend systems into intuitive front-end products. Based in Wilmington, Delaware, he combines a rare blend of long-term engineering depth with technical writing chops and an unexpected academic background in music, which informs his attention to craft and structure.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Music, Master of Music at Florida State UniversityBachelor, Music Education, Bachelor, Music Education at University of DelawareDoctorate, Music, Doctorate, Music at Michigan State University
Chinese
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Github Skills (23)
markdown10
hugo10
technical-writing10
typescript10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
documentation10
localstorage9
user-interface9
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
html6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
linode/manager
Jun 2018 - May 2021
Akamai's Cloud Manager is an open-source, single-page application designed as the primary frontend interface for interacting with the Linode API. It is entrusted by hundreds of thousands of customers with the management of their Linode services.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 814 reviews, 1273 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily contributed to the development of the user interface for the Linode Manager application, focusing on feature implementation, and bug fixes. They implemented local storage for support ticket input, ensuring data persistence. The user's work involved modifying existing React components and Typescript code, with a focus on improving the user experience and functionality. They also updated the main application entry point by removing a deprecated component.
react-router-v4linode-apilinodecloud-managerreact-redux
linode/docs
Sep 2017 - Jan 2021
Linode guides and tutorials.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:315 commits, 462 PRs, 374 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jared contributed to the Linode documentation repository, primarily focusing on creating and updating guides. Their work included writing and refining documentation for tools such as Zipkin, along with articles on VPN firewalls. The user was involved in the theme rebuild, including creating and editing content pages in both the layouts and shortcodes. They also fixed code formatting issues.
linode
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