Jarred Olson
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Upstart
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJarred Olson is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Columbus, Ohio, with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting cloud-native systems and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He combines deep technical chops—spanning AWS serverless, Kubernetes, Terraform, Elixir, Node.js, Java/Grails, and data platforms—with a track record of moving products from prototype to production. At Upstart and prior roles he has shifted between principal, senior, and management positions, consistently prioritizing team success and clear stakeholder communication from developers to C-level executives. He regularly shares knowledge publicly, having delivered five unique technical talks across multiple conferences and user groups, and enjoys mentoring engineers through architecture, DevOps, and agile practices. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who prefers fixing hard problems with elegant software and cloud architecture rather than bureaucracy.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Management Information Systems (MIS) Information Technology, Management Information Systems (MIS) Information Technology at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
English
Stackoverflow
3,153reputation
264kreached
89answers
9questions
aws-lambda
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grails
top-5%
Github Skills (73)
data-processing10
grails9
data-visualization9
driver9
elixir9
aws-lambda9
data-analytics8
microservices7
react-component7
integration-testing6
terraform6
testing6
helm6
grails-plugin6
javascript6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
PillarTechnology/botkit-storage-mysql
Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
A MySQL storage driver for Botkit
Contributions:6 releases, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 6 months
botkitdrivermysql
Datastillery/micro-service-watchinator
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Monitors the micro services of the OS
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 1 PR in 11 months
monitorssolarisdbusmicro-services
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