Jared Bennett Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Started as a L3 SWE in Nov 2021, then was promoted to L4 in Nov 2022• Designed and implemented multiple critical tools and features that enabled new, and enhanced existing, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular platform test development for related engineering teams• Expanded connectivity test infrastructure across the ChromeOS test frameworks (Tast, Autotest) and lab infrastructure (PARIS, UFS, Swarming, device OS customizations) to support new types of Wi-Fi routers and Bluetooth peripherals in ChromeOS automated testing environments in a scalable way• Consistently contributed to many interconnected code repositories in different languages (primarily Go and Python) with code that touches thousands of physical lab devices daily which global ChromeOS releases depend upon• Migrated Bluetooth peripheral testing support from the legacy, Python-based Autotest test framework to the more modern, Go-based, Tast test framework, which enabled engineering teams to develop tests more easily for new ChromeOS features like Google Fast Pair• Routinely met with various cross-functional engineering teams to gather requirements, solve technical challenges, and conduct training in best practices and newly available tooling• Designed, implemented, documented, and maintained specialized tools (easy lab tunneling, customized OpenWrt and Raspberry Pi OS image building, etc.) for ChromeOS engineering teams that automated manual development tasks, increasing developer productivity• Utilized Protocol Buffers and gRPC in various projects to develop service APIs and shared data structure definitions across repos and systems• Improved the reliability of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth automated testing by addressing infrastructure bugs, refactoring systems, improving logs, and increasing error handling

Centennial, Colorado, Us

• Designed and implemented a multitude of custom streaming solutions for a network of internal and external stakeholders to enable and manage OTT VOD and live video streaming across millions of devices• Developed and maintained integrations between internal products, client systems, and 3rd party services including MPX, AWS, Roku, X1, Apple TV UMC, Google DFP, YouTube, Comcast CDN, and Akamai CDN• Wrote and executed many Groovy scripts to perform ad-hoc tasks (data reporting and management, batch changes, etc.) using REST APIs which often involved millions of interdependent data objects spanning both staging and production environments• Created a collection of custom front-end web applications for clients to help them manage their data in CTS systems in personalized ways, using modern tools like Webpack, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Pug, Sass, and jQuery.• Created and maintained multiple backend and frontend internal tools that streamlined common development tasks, which became essential daily time-savers for numerous engineers in a global organization• Organized the development, maintenance, and inter-team contribution efforts of tools for the whole global organization• Established new and improved existing technical documentation for multiple projects simultaneously• Mentored and collaborated with other engineers concurrently in teams residing in multiple countries across different time zones• Interviewed prospective new hires, refactored interview questions and process, and trained other engineers on how to interview• Architected and implemented a development standards framework and standards across 30+ active engineering project teams

Centennial, Colorado, Us

• Implemented custom streaming solutions for multiple internal and external stakeholders to enable and manage OTT VOD and live video streaming across millions of devices• Refactored similar middleware configurations from 30+ different Groovy scripts to a single parameterized script, which improved maintainability and made iterative development much more efficient• Improved upon existing Java-based tools and built new customized internal Java and JavaScript tools to improve the speed and reliability of the organization’s code development• Made use of customized internal tooling to reduce development time in ongoing projects with external stakeholders, resulting in their increased trust and expanded/continued business with the team• Developed and maintained client workflows to manage their asset metadata as well as analyze, encode, package, and publish video and sidecar files while handling various file formats, encoders, and CDNs

Tallahassee, Florida, Us

• Led a team in recreating an old payment system using modern and mobile-responsive web technologies• Built a Java RESTful API to handle purchases and communicate with other company services• Created PostgreSQL database tables for logging transactions• Configured the front-end to utilize Gulp, Webpack, Pug, and Handlebars• Worked on improving the company’s other web-based SaaS products

Tallahassee, Florida, Us

• Worked in a team to prepare and publish an internal web form creation framework as open source• Created extensive unit tests using Jasmine & Karma• Fixed existing issues with the current system features and added new ones• Setup an automated build and test system using Gulp and Travis CI• Wrote comprehensive documentation and created a website to navigate it

• Managed of all the web, iOS, and Android development• Worked with the HackFSU team and its partners to help organize, expand the organization, and to ensure the event’s success for years to come• Set project deadlines and kept the group on task and in-sync with what was required of all systems• Configured CentOS 7 with DigitalOcean for the website and database• Built an attendee application management system for submitting, reviewing, and sending out responses• Created a system to send out dynamic, transactional emails using Mandrill• Configured user auth. and the ACLs to protect user and admin web resources• Built administration pages for real-time reports and pushing out updates• Set up a Parse database (’14-’16), then later converted it to a local PostgreSQL database (’17)• Created the Node.js backend (’14-’16), then later converted it to a Djangobackend with a Gulp front-end build step (’17)• Improved the original design to allow for multiple hackathons so that the system need not be changed every year• Mentored other students so that I could be replaced once I stepped down

Tallahassee, Fl, Us

• Provided quality customer service to company clients• Answered phone calls and responded to emails on behalf of the company• Created and managed trouble tickets in both local and external networks• Assisted customers with the company’s VPN and internet services• Routinely called customers and government offices for service restoration and debugging purposes