I’m a software engineer with 6 years of experience building, testing, and supporting production applications across SaaS and enterprise environments. I’ve worked end-to-end on backend services and frontend features, partnering closely with product and design teams to deliver reliable workflows for real users. I enjoy strengthening systems through clean service design, robust REST APIs, and well-tuned data access with PostgreSQL, along with practical automation using JUnit/Mockito and CI checks. Lately, I’ve been focused on cloud-native delivery with AWS and Azure, improving performance and reliability through observability, containerization, and careful troubleshooting.

Jarred Richards

I’m a software engineer with 6 years of experience building, testing, and supporting production applications across SaaS and enterprise environments. I’ve worked end-to-end on backend services and frontend features, partnering closely with product and design teams to deliver reliable workflows for real users. I enjoy strengthening systems through clean service design, robust REST APIs, and well-tuned data access with PostgreSQL, along with practical automation using JUnit/Mockito and CI checks. Lately, I’ve been focused on cloud-native delivery with AWS and Azure, improving performance and reliability through observability, containerization, and careful troubleshooting.

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I’m a software engineer with 6 years of experience building, testing, and supporting production applications across SaaS and enterprise environments. I’ve worked end-to-end on backend services and frontend features, partnering closely with product and design teams to deliver reliable workflows for real users.

I enjoy strengthening systems through clean service design, robust REST APIs, and well-tuned data access with PostgreSQL, along with practical automation using JUnit/Mockito and CI checks. Lately, I’ve been focused on cloud-native delivery with AWS and Azure, improving performance and reliability through observability, containerization, and careful troubleshooting.

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Full Stack Engineer at CompStak®
March 1, 2023 - Present
Built and maintained cloud-native backend and frontend systems for a commercial real estate platform. Designed and enhanced Spring Boot services for property, search, and operational workflows; developed and integrated REST APIs consumed by React applications. Implemented persistence layers using JPA/Hibernate with PostgreSQL, improving query efficiency through indexing, optimized joins, caching, and careful data-access patterns. Partnered with React/TypeScript engineers to deliver end-to-end features and resolve integration defects across the frontend/backend boundary. Expanded automated testing with JUnit, Mockito, and API tests within CI checks to strengthen regression protection. Contributed to code reviews, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing while improving engineering practices. Deployed services using Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD on AWS and Azure with observability and health checks.
Software Engineer at Hilton
February 1, 2022 - February 1, 2023
Improved testing, reliability, and cross-team software delivery for a global hospitality platform. Developed and maintained Cypress regression automation for React-based Hilton Honors and Guest experiences across authentication, profile, loyalty, and account workflows. Built reusable API assertion utilities to detect backend integration defects earlier and reduce browser-level failures. Collaborated across frontend and backend teams to troubleshoot production issues, reproduce defects, and convert fixes into durable regression scenarios. Strengthened CI feedback using deterministic fixtures, reliable test-data setup, and clearer diagnostics to speed up triage in distributed teams.
Full Stack Engineer at Union
March 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
Delivered maintainable full-stack software across varied client environments as a product consultancy. Built customer-facing applications using React/JavaScript plus Node.js, Python, and selected Java-based backend services. Implemented REST endpoints, relational data models, authentication, and asynchronous integrations while partnering with product, design, and engineering stakeholders. Improved software quality through automated testing, technical documentation, code review, and repeatable CI workflows across fast-moving Agile projects. Reduced duplicated integration logic by extracting reusable service/API components and improved release consistency with stronger automated testing and CI validation.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2019

Qualifications

General Assembly’s Software Engineering Immersive
December 9, 2019 - March 13, 2020

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Travel & Hospitality, Real Estate & Construction, Professional Services