Jared Rhizor is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building data-intensive systems and developer tools from San Francisco. He has led engineering at scale—designing APIs, orchestration, and connectors at Airbyte and optimizing PB-scale pipelines and an 80TB in-memory graph at LiveRamp—while repeatedly launching startups that translate data into product value. Jared currently runs Elmo, making LLM/AI interactions with the web visible, and operates niche plays like Amor for recruiter tooling and poach.vc for surfacing undiscovered founders. He has a strong hands-on background across backend, orchestration, and frontend, plus a track record of open-source contributions and practical DevOps work (Kubernetes, cloud migrations). An entrepreneurial operator, he’s taken a consumer product through sale (MealByMeal) and iterated quickly on multiple simultaneous ventures. Less obvious: he pairs deep systems-level optimization experience with rapid prototyping muscle, moving from research-grade algorithms to revenue-generating products.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno
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