Jared Planter

Experiences

Lead engineer and systems builder for venture-scale products, designing and shipping cloud-native platforms (AWS, Terraform, Serverless, React) that can move from zero → production fast without collapsing under real users.
Architect of internal tooling and templates (Cookiecutters, shared infra, automation) that standardize how teams build, deploy, and operate software - reducing friction, mistakes, and “tribal knowledge” bottlenecks.
Bridge between product vision and execution, working closely with founders, operators, and non-technical stakeholders to turn ambiguous business problems into concrete, scalable technical solutions.
Operational multiplier who unblocks teams, debugs the ugly edge cases (auth, data migrations, integrations, infra weirdness), and quietly keeps critical systems running so portfolio companies can actually grow.

An 1848 Ventures company
Led a team through new feature development and maintenance work on a production application serving sales and labor forecasts and predictions to restaurants.
Involved in overall team process building and execution.
Redesigned and implemented a new CI/CD pipeline.
Built out a 3rd party API integration pattern to interface with various Point of Sale and other restaurant related APIs for our customers.
Led refactoring initiatives to implement more extensible patterns in the application.

Designed and implemented features, for internal and customer use, vital to the business.
Built and maintained 3rd party API integrations.
Involved in the migration of technology stacks after an acquisition.

Played a key role in the development and launch of Keet Health v3 which included architecting API endpoints for front-end clients to consume, focusing on data integrity and implementing OAuth2 infrastructure.
Designed and implemented third party integrations to import PHI/PII data between customer's EMRs and Keet Health.
Designed and implemented an embedded version of the Keet app using a custom authentication strategy.
Mentored junior and mid-level engineers and promoted pair programming, amongst other practices, throughout the team.

Responsibilities include but were not limited to mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, architecting and implementing custom APIs for clients, maintaining existing and building new features for our expanding design customization infrastructure.
Involved in ongoing expansion of our continuous integration and deployment infrastructure utilizing Jenkins and Kubernetes in Google Cloud Platform.
Recently played a critical role in developing and launching the backend for a design and fabric customization feature called MyFabric with Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft stores.

Brought BidRancher from a concept to a fully functional MVP as a Ruby on Rails application.
Worked hands on with potential clients to design a tool that would improve the way they do business and, in the long run, save them money.

In addition to my previous duties, I was responsible for spreading knowledge amongst the team and I played a large role in building and preserving our culture.
Gained a larger role in the architecture and future of ACTIVE.com as well as other applications in the organization, simplifying the registration flow and making it easier for customers to pay for events.
I played a key role in launching ActiveKids, a portal on Active.com that sees over 110K unique visitors a month, which allows parents to register their children for endurance and other types of events.

As a core contributor to ACTIVE.com, a Ruby on Rails application that sees 8.5M unique visitors a month, I was responsible for architecting and implementing new functionality and maintaining existing code.
I was responsible for researching new technologies and writing/maintaining gems in an effort to make it easier for users to sign up and pay for endurance and other events.

Maintained the Blue Bear software suite for the Active Educate division. Blue Bear is an e-commerce platform for schools that ran primarily off a PHP web application and ProvideX desktop application. I was responsible for maintaining the existing PHP code base, fixing bugs and developing new features.

Supervised five employees responsible for operating the IT helpdesk and provided assistance for 200 staff and supported technology needs for 2000+ students across the district. Involved extensively in the technical direction of the district and day-to-day operations throughout the district.

Remained on-call for all of Xnergy's network needs. Remotely managed servers and personal computers and performed regular maintenance to the network.

Redesigned and managed a medium sized Windows network for, general contractor, Xnergy, Inc. to manage employees in the field and the office. Responsible for all technology involved for 30+ employees.

Programmed for several clients including a Los Angeles based internet advertising agency, responsible for developing Flash/PHP/MySQL based advertisements. I designed a hit tracking system to monitor individual advertisement success rates and maintained the web servers.

Responsible for maintaining the existing Windows network and all technology across three schools in the district. Wrote the student attendance and tracking system in PHP/MySQL while still a student and moved into this position upon graduation.

Built and maintained home and small business networks as well as handling service calls for software and hardware problems. My services also included web hosting and web design with sufficient skills in HTML, PHP, MySQL and Javascript as well as some photoshop services.

Skills

Interests

Staff Software Engineer / Technologist