Jared Smith
Software Engineering at Niva
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJared Smith is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building new products and reducing operational costs, currently contributing at Niva in New York. He spent a long tenure at YC-backed Chime where he led small teams to launch lending and auto-insurance products, re-architected MyPay for a credit-oriented launch, and modernized real-time card authorization for SpotMe. At Gusto he specialized in integrations and automation, including building an early webhooks API that supported a major partnership. Jared pairs hands-on engineering with a strong operational lens—introducing tooling like RuboCop and internal developer utilities that scaled team productivity. Outside tech he’s applying his product and business instincts to personal real estate investing, learning to run a small, non-tech business.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
English, French
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Github Skills (61)
sorbet10
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bootstrap10
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rails10
aasm10
fsm-library10
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ruby10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TeamCobra/ouroboros
Oct 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:1 release, 72 commits, 14 PRs in 7 months
jaredsmithse/monzo.cr
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 20 commits, 491 pushes in 5 months
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