Summary
Jared Meakin is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building consumer-scale front-end experiences and full-stack SaaS platforms, currently shipping Vue/Nuxt features for ShopLTK that reach hundreds of millions of daily users. He transitioned from IT leadership in healthcare—rising from support technician to virtualization manager—into software development, bringing rare operational and infrastructure empathy to product engineering. Jared has led and scaled engineering teams, contributed to clinical-trial and analytics platforms, and helped hire and onboard engineering talent while remaining hands-on with React, GraphQL, Node, and modern frontend tooling. He excels at bridging product, UX, and backend services to deliver quality, maintainable projects and enjoys mentoring peers. Based in Denton, Texas, he balances engineering with a family life as a dad of four and an outdoors enthusiast, which informs his pragmatic, team-centered approach to problem solving. Notably, his background in managing large IT estates gives him a practical edge when architecting resilient production systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer