Summary
Jared Stemen is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cost-saving distributed systems and microservices. He has a strong Java background and has architected Kafka Streams and Spring Boot solutions that collectively saved Chegg roughly $7.8M annually by detecting fraud and streamlining order workflows. Jared is experienced across the full backend stack—SNS/SQS, Redis, MySQL, Docker—and has led migrations from legacy PHP to modern Java platforms while creating company-wide templates to accelerate development. Comfortable in Agile environments, he blends hands-on coding with domain expertise in fraud detection and vendor risk integration. Jared’s work history spans consumer and IoT platforms at companies like Apple, Acer, and TiVo, reflecting a track record of pragmatic reengineering and automation. Based in South Vienna, Ohio, he pairs an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins with a systems-engineering undergraduate background, bringing both rigorous technical depth and operational mindset to production systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Science (BS) Industrial & Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Industrial & Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University