Jarrod Carlson
Senior DevOps Engineer at Cox Automotive Inc.
Castle Rock, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJarrod Carlson is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 15 years of experience building platform, SRE, and cloud-native systems from startup features to enterprise scale at Cox Automotive and prior roles. He combines hands-on engineering (Rails, JavaScript, AWS) with platform thinking—introducing microservices, API gateways, and 12-factor practices to reduce errors and speed delivery. A pragmatic technical leader, Jarrod has led cross-functional teams, launched revenue-driving e‑commerce products, and driven full automation of testing and deployment pipelines. He contributes to open-source front-end tooling (enhancing Spine’s routing and client model refresh behavior), reflecting an attention to robust UX and client-side state management often overlooked by infrastructure-focused engineers. Based in Castle Rock, CO, he pairs deep operational experience with product instincts that turn architectural changes into measurable business outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Information Systems at University of Georgia - Terry College of Business
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Github Skills (17)
url-routing10
javascript10
coffeescript10
testing10
mvc10
jtest10
jasmine-tests10
jasmine10
ruby-on-rails6
amazon-ec26
gemfile6
rubymine6
spring-security6
spring6
ruby6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spine/spine
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Jarrod focused on enhancing the routing capabilities of the Spine library, introducing features such as unmatched route redirection to the browser. They also added specs to handle client-side model attribute updates. They implemented a refresh method for Model instances to allow data updates, which helps with data refreshing and handling server responses.
mvcjavascriptweb-developmentjavascript-applications
jcarlson/slug-engine
Nov 2011 - Nov 2015
Contributions:41 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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