Jared Nielson
Senior Ruby Software Engineer at Kantata
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Nielson is a Senior Ruby Software Engineer with a decade of professional experience building web applications and backend systems, currently at tastytrade and serving as Staff Software Engineer at Kantata. A University of Utah computer science graduate, he blends practical web development skills with interests in programming languages, computer networks, and machine learning. His background spans startups and enterprise environments, from building custom dashboards and Jira plugins at Motorola Solutions to technical art and teaching roles that sharpened his communication and problem‑solving skills. Known for shipping reliable Ruby-based services, he brings both hands-on coding and mentorship to cross-functional teams. Based in Salt Lake City, Jared pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with curiosity about systems-level design and emerging ML integrations. An uncommon detail: he holds an earlier bachelor’s study in exercise science, reflecting a long-standing habit of disciplined, analytical thinking applied to software.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (33)
schema-migrations9
ruby9
json-api9
linter9
homebrew9
code-analyzer8
rails8
static-code-analysis8
rubocop8
mysql8
percona8
ruby-style-guide7
grape-api7
api7
activerecord7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mavenlink/mavenlint
Feb 2019 - Nov 2023
Mavenlink RuboCop and ESLint configuration
Contributions:5 reviews, 28 PRs, 26 pushes in 4 years 9 months
eslintrubocop
mavenlink/departure
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
Percona's pt-online-schema-change runner for ActiveRecord migrations.
Contributions:1 review, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
migration-toolrailsperconarubyonline-schema-change
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