Jesse Varnado
Software Engineering Team Lead at Order.co
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Varnado is a pragmatic software engineering leader with 14 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack SaaS platforms and high-performing teams from Austin, Texas. He blends hands-on engineering—modern Node.js microservices, AWS Step Functions/Lambda, ECS/Fargate, CI/CD and DevOps—with people-first leadership that favors mentoring, discussion, and measurable processes. Jesse has driven large migrations and performance wins (600% static page generation improvement) and architected reusable services like an RBAC/ABAC authorization API used across GE Aviation products. He routinely embeds secure coding, TDD, and peer review into delivery while scaling orgs rapidly through hiring and vendor partnerships. Comfortable moving ideas to production quickly, he has taken greenfield projects from concept to production in weeks and introduced event-driven ETL and analytics solutions that improved operational outcomes. Notably, he pairs enterprise-grade architecture with pragmatic tooling choices to accelerate both product velocity and developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Tulane University
Github Skills (16)
nav9
bootstrap-theme8
html-template8
bootstrap8
css7
html6
canvas5
open-source5
nodejs2
typescript2
api2
json-api2
json2
graphql1
state-machine1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nolabots/frc_2016
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:12 PRs, 11 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
frcjavaseason
jessevarnado/coffee-machine
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 days
state-machine
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