Jared Petersen
Staff Software Engineer at Flock Freight
Nampa, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolJared Petersen is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance, event-driven distributed systems using Java and Go. He has led solver and commerce platforms that dramatically improved performance and revenue capture—most notably a freight pooling solver at Flock Freight that sped processing by >150x and increased pooled revenue share. Jared combines hands-on engineering (from payment systems and real-time segmentation to Kubernetes and Kafka-based architectures) with team leadership across logistics, gaming, and enterprise software. He contributes to well-known open-source tooling, improving developer and CI experiences—adding GPG/key management to actions/setup-java and refining commander.js CLI ergonomics. Based in Nampa, Idaho, he’s as comfortable optimizing low-latency backend pipelines as he is translating business goals into reliable, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Western Oregon University BS with a Double Major in Computer Science and Business, Western Oregon University BS with a Double Major in Computer Science and Business at Western Oregon University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
github-ci10
javascript10
command-line-interface10
cicd10
pg10
command-line10
gnupg10
nodejs10
githubaction-workflow10
cli10
authentication9
java9
user-authentication9
javas9
testing8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
actions/setup-java
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Java
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 40 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily focused on integrating GPG key management and authentication into the Java setup process. They modified the build process and added new configuration options. The user also cleaned up the private key in the cleanup process. They addressed feedback to improve the codebase.
github-actions-workflowdependabotworkflow-actionsset-upjava
tj/commander.js
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
node.js command-line interfaces made easy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jared's contributions primarily focused on standardizing and improving the help output of the `commander.js` library. They fixed newline issues, removed unnecessary spacing, and standardized the formatting for a cleaner presentation. Additionally, the user addressed error messages by prefixing them with "error:" and removing surrounding newlines. These changes indicate a focus on improving the user experience of the command-line interface.
command-line-toolnode-jsjavascriptnodejsinterfaces
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