Jared Russell
VP, Engineering at Remitly
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Russell is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling payments and consumer fintech platforms, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Remitly after rising through engineering and management roles there. He blends hands-on software development roots from Microsoft with progressive leadership—from senior engineer to director and now VP—focused on operational excellence, cross-functional hiring, and product delivery. Based in Seattle and educated at UIUC in Computer Science, he has a track record of growing teams and systems through acquisition (Talio Labs) into a global remittance business. Jared is notable for pairing deep technical empathy with talent development, actively recruiting engineers, PMs, designers, and analysts to accelerate product velocity.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (52)
javascript10
typescript10
tvos10
type-check9
ios9
networking9
typechecker9
watchos9
swift9
macos8
superset8
npm8
yarnpkg7
persistent7
cli7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jaredru/dotfiles
Nov 2010 - Sep 2022
Contributions:215 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 11 years 11 months
jaredru/zsh-pure
Mar 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:7 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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