Jaron Heard
Founder & CEO at Soonlist
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJaron Heard is a founder and product-focused engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience and 30+ months of applied AI/LLM work, currently building Soonlist — an AI-native social calendar live on iOS and web. He specializes in taking ideas from 0 to 1, rapidly validating MVPs, and integrating practical LLM features (like screenshot-to-event parsing) to accelerate product discovery and user value. Comfortable as a solo builder or embedded tech lead, he ships fast, instruments products for data-driven iteration, and designs scalable CI/CD and observability pipelines. His toolkit centers on TypeScript, Next.js, React Native/Expo, Convex and modern LLM tooling, and he’s delivered zero-to-one data products that supported over $10M in startup growth. Based in Portland, he prioritizes projects that expand access to information and regularly co-hosts community workshops that blend design, data communication, and civic impact.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at Portland State University
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Github Skills (105)
testing10
mapbox-gl-geocoder10
html10
monorepo10
webpack10
frontend10
react10
javascript9
gatsby9
sanity9
angular9
maps9
storybook9
security9
svg9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jaronheard/app.mememailclub.com
Sep 2022 - Sep 2023
Contributions:4 reviews, 148 PRs, 265 pushes in 1 year
hackoregon/civic
May 2017 - May 2021
The frontend monorepo for the CIVIC platform.
Contributions:8 reviews, 890 commits, 607 PRs in 4 years
frontendmonorepo
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