Jarod Reid
Director Of Engineering at Salesforce
Santaquin, Utah, United States
Summary
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SeniorJarod Reid is a Director of Engineering with over a decade of hands-on experience building distributed, message-driven systems and leading engineering teams through complex product and organizational transitions. He specializes in Service Oriented Architectures, AMQP messaging (RabbitMQ), and full-stack Ruby on Rails and Node.js development, and has shaped core messaging components used in major MMORPG infrastructure. A proven people leader, Jarod has scaled and mentored engineering teams—training 100+ junior developers in bootcamps and implementing remote-first team structures that improved productivity during COVID-19. He has driven CI/CD and cloud modernization at enterprise scale (AWS) and guided security and compliance changes at major financial institutions. An active open-source contributor, he contributed substantive fixes to the Moleculer microservices ecosystem and authored a Ruby implementation of Moleculer used in production. Based in Utah, he blends strategic roadmap planning with pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, scalable products that meet revenue and operational goals.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
26reputation
885reached
4answers
3questions
Github Skills (19)
microservices-application10
moleculer10
nodejs10
microservices10
javascript9
distributed-systems9
protobuffer9
protobuf9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
shell6
ruby-on-rails6
meteor6
angularjs6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
moleculerjs/moleculer
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
:rocket: Progressive microservices framework for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jarod primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Moleculer framework. They focused on improving the robustness and maintainability of the code base by addressing potential errors, such as incorrect timer usage, and ensuring consistent naming conventions. Their work involved changes to both core modules and type definitions, as well as updates to the protobuf serialization code. The user's commits reflect a strong understanding of the framework's internal workings and adherence to best practices.
microservicesnodejsmicroservicedistributed-systemsmoleculer
optoro/served
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:32 PRs, 153 pushes, 32 branches in 1 year 11 months
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