Summary
Jared Linck is a Principal Solutions Architect at SAS with a decade of experience bridging advanced analytics, open-source tooling, and cloud-native deployments for government and higher-education customers. He specializes in integrating SAS with Python, R, and web apps to make analytics accessible across diverse skillsets, and has recently focused on automating and administering Kubernetes-based SAS Viya deployments in the cloud. Jared leverages his PhD in Cognitive Psychology and prior academic research to extract actionable insight from messy, real-world data—especially text—applying AI/ML methods and automated workflows. Known for making complex integrations practical, he combines systems engineering rigor with a researcher’s attention to experimental design and reproducibility. Based in Alexandria, VA, he frequently enables cross-tool collaboration so teams can use the languages and interfaces they prefer while maintaining scalable, monitored analytic pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Cognitive Psychology, PhD, Cognitive Psychology at Penn State University
BA, Psychology and Spanish, BA, Psychology and Spanish at Butler University
Spanish