Jarrod Nettles
Senior Director Of Emerging Tech & Innovation
Round Rock, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJarrod Nettles is a seasoned technology leader with 14+ years building large-scale infrastructure, platform, and AI-driven software systems, currently serving as Senior Director of Emerging Tech & Innovation at H-E-B. He combines deep software engineering and computer vision expertise with hands-on hardware familiarity to drive AI reinvention across enterprise operations. Previously he led platform and infrastructure teams at H-E-B and spent nearly a decade at Apple shaping Maps, Autonomous Systems, and enterprise cloud engineering. His teams have delivered substantial cost savings—hundreds of millions—through cloud and infrastructure optimizations. An active contributor to open-source, he has modernized legacy libraries (e.g., refactoring PHPThumb) to improve maintainability and testability. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he blends strategic leadership with practical, delivery-focused engineering.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Business Administration, Associates Business Administration at Illinois Central CollegeBachelors Business Administration/Marketing, Bachelors Business Administration/Marketing at Illinois State University
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
php10
refactoring10
xdebug10
architecture9
architectures9
ubuntu9
namespaces8
composer7
lucene6
html6
ajax6
caching6
javascript6
scalability6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
masterexploder/PHPThumb
May 2012 - Sep 2015
PHP Thumbnail & Image Manipulation Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 34 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jarrod primarily focused on refactoring and reorganizing the PHPThumb library. This included restructuring the project, implementing namespacing, and removing obsolete files and code. They also began the implementation of a new plugin system using interfaces and added initial unit tests, indicating a shift towards a more maintainable and testable codebase. The contributions centered on improving the library's architecture and enhancing its core functionality.
image-manipulationphp
Blackshawk/behat-atom
Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
Adds Behat support to Atom.io
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
behat
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