Jared Welch
Staff Software Engineer, IRM at Grafana Labs
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJared Welch is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building CI/CD, developer tooling, and incident response platforms, currently shaping reliability and developer experience at Grafana Labs. He has driven complex infra migrations and platform integrations at PagerDuty and Jeli, blending hands-on systems design with strong mentorship in Python, NodeJS, Java, and observability tooling like OpenTelemetry. Jared’s background spans mobile DevOps and large-scale CI pipelines at eBay and New Relic, where he championed type-checked Python, standardized tooling, and deployment automation. Known for leading projects end-to-end—from architecting incident automation to running incident commander rotations—he pairs deep operational experience with a developer-first mindset. Based in Vancouver, WA, he brings a practical mix of startup agility and enterprise robustness, plus a knack for making developer workflows measurably faster and safer.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Clark CollegeN/A Computer Science, N/A Computer Science at Portland State University
English
Github Skills (91)
pipeline10
updating10
continuous-delivery9
helm9
kind9
contour9
cloud-native9
k8s9
machine-learning9
docker9
argo-rollouts9
devops9
batch-processing9
spinnaker9
continuous-deployment9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jwelch92/site
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
personal site
Contributions:13 PRs, 26 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 1 month
reactnextjs
jwelch92/advent-of-code-2021
Dec 2021 - Nov 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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