Jared Rader
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Edmond, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolJared Rader is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience blending entrepreneurial drive and hands-on full-stack development, currently contributing to Shopify's messaging and merchant experience. He has a strong Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React background, having led product teams and shipped real-time messaging, chat integrations, and feature rollout tooling at Reflektive and Shopify. Jared pairs technical leadership—former engineering manager and tech lead—with deep implementation experience across backend services, GraphQL, Kafka, and data pipelines. He’s comfortable optimizing legacy systems and building full-stack features from API to UI, and his early startup CEO experience gives him a product-minded approach to engineering tradeoffs. Based in Edmond, Oklahoma, he also brings language-study rigor and international perspective from extensive Chinese studies, an uncommon asset for cross-cultural product work.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ruby on Rails, Ruby on Rails at BlocBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chinese, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chinese at University of OklahomaPre-Advanced Chinese, Pre-Advanced Chinese at Yunnan UniversityWeb Development, Web Development at Dev BootcampAdvanced Conversational Chinese, U.S.-China Relations, Chinese Newspaper Reading, Advanced Conversational Chinese, U.S.-China Relations, Chinese Newspaper Reading at Harbin Institute of Technology
Chinese
Stackoverflow
870reputation
30kreached
18answers
27questions
Github Skills (64)
jquery10
searching10
select210
ruby9
scrolling9
rails9
mvc9
autolink9
selectbox9
numeric9
jstree9
html9
linkify9
selector9
activerecord8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Bloc/workshop-curriculum
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Exercise content for the Workshop platform.
Contributions:47 commits, 48 PRs, 23 pushes in 9 days
workshop
raderj89/refcodes
Jan 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:126 commits, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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