Jared Mcfarland
Staff Software Engineer at halfSquared
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Mcfarland is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland with 17 years building and leading infrastructure and distributed systems at companies from startups to Stripe and GitHub. He specializes in cloud compute, platform strategy, and large-scale migrations—most notably leading a zero-downtime migration of 120k VMs and driving ARM adoption that saved Stripe tens of millions annually. As a tech lead and principal coach he blends hands-on systems work with mentorship and operational reforms that reduce burnout and improve reliability. He has deep experience re-architecting monoliths toward event-driven data flows and designing fault-tolerant datastores and APIs used across engineering organizations. Jared also runs a coaching practice helping senior engineers and executives translate technical improvements into measurable business outcomes. Outside core engineering he’s run small businesses and product-focused consultancies, giving him a pragmatic, end-to-end perspective on shipping software.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Pima Community College
Stackoverflow
1reputation
1kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (113)
authenticator10
browser10
graphql-go10
background-service10
react10
javascript9
dynamodb9
golang9
amazon-dynamodb9
ruby9
nextjs9
graphql9
amazon9
compiler8
cli8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jaredonline/bread-making
Feb 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
jaredonline/the-most-overrated-band
Feb 2009 - Feb 2009
Contributions:36 commits in 11 days
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