Jared Mcdonald
Software Reliability Engineer II at Ping Identity
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolJared Mcdonald is a Cloud & DevOps engineer with six years of experience designing and operating backend systems that balance scalability, cost, and simplicity. He’s worked across startups and large organizations—from NASA and Rolls-Royce to Charles Schwab and Ping Identity—building Go and Python services, modern CI/CD pipelines, and mixed on‑prem/cloud infrastructure. Jared led significant backend replacements that improved performance by ~40% and materially reduced cloud spend, and he routinely automates deployments, logging, and service health checks to accelerate developer velocity. A FOSS advocate and self-described indie developer based in Indianapolis, he favors pragmatic, right‑sized solutions over one‑size‑fits‑all architectures. Comfortable taking full ownership, he blends hands‑on engineering with systems thinking to simplify complex stacks. Less obvious: he pairs formal instrumentation and Lean principles from public-sector and audit work with cloud native practices to deliver measurable operational improvements.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Technology at Purdue University
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Github Skills (17)
discord-js10
discord9
youtube9
drone-ci9
spotify9
music9
go6
crate6
dockerfile6
http-header6
aws-lambda6
docker6
amazon-web-services6
cors6
docker-compose6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jamcdon/crater
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:160 commits, 2 PRs, 237 pushes in 5 months
jamcdon/mazdaNeed
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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