Jared Rand Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Working on the Content Authoring team to build tools that allow content creators to construct training courses in Virtual Reality.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

• Worked on tasks including fixing UI in Horizons VR application and migrating PHP code to Rust.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Lead pod of 3 developers and oversaw rebuild of functionality for professors to browse, edit, and manage their courses.• Product release resulted in better user perception, faster performance, and compliance with AAA a11y standards.• Worked on central microservice to enable users to write and create digital textbooks and course materials, serving ~17,000 courses and ~287,000 users daily.• Increased microservice usage (rollout) from ~30% to 100% and improved service success rate from ~80% to ~99.8%.• Championed improvements to documentation, resulting in fewer bugs and faster developer onboarding.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Recipient of NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award 2020.• Built and trained Machine Learning algorithms using Keras and TensorFlow.• Prepared a paper which was published in the ICSE 2021 Conference summarizing results of the research project.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Instructed and marked labs and projects for CPS530: Web Systems Development.• Helped teach students the fundamentals of Web Development.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Instructed labs in Logic Programming (PROLOG) for over 40 students to reinforce understanding.• Marked labs, projects, and exams for over 100 students.

Toronto, On, Ca

• Responsible for all aspects of software development, including: designing features; buildinguser interfaces and back-end routes; managing software environments and databases; deploying applications; determining software architecture; and supporting users.• Recognized as a leader within the Development team and broader company, for instance: mentored and trained new developers; trained Customer Success team in product features/experience; and interviewed dozens of candidates for cross-functional roles.• Implemented efficiencies to existing processes (and wrote supportive documentation), ultimately ensuring developers consistently delivered high-quality work.• Communicated feedback from CEO to the Development team and guided implementation.• Played a key role in the development of software that achieved $12-million funding and eventual acquisition by Thumbtack.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Worked collaboratively with the Strategy Lead to develop a web application using AngularJS, jQuery, Chart.js, and Bootstrap, and validated data in MySQL.• Created several client-facing utilities including dynamic statistic reports, a dashboard, user- customizable web pages, and a catalog editor.

• Delivered packages effectively in a safe, timely, and efficient manner for large legal and institutional clients.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

High School Diploma