resume
career overview: jared mathews
brief
someone who seeks out life and lives it; a solid overall\all-around software engineer with an expertise in communicating the semantics of code
status
adapting and participating
short-term goal
maximize my learning\listening while staying open to abrasive/threatening perspectives
long-term goal
continue to hone my craft while exchanging positive energy and ideas with all kinds of folks
life: unsheltered - vagabond
unsheltered
vagabond
2025.01 - 2024.07
overview
roughly six and a half months living\sleeping on the streets across several cities & states (san francisco/san jose, boston/new york, las vegas, and fort collins)
learnings
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a clear sense of what matters
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survival and resourcefulness
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resilience through hardship
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empathy for people on the margins
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the inhumanity of the drug/fentanyl crisis
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the toll of exposure on mental and physical health
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old man winter shows no mercy
travel: latin america - nomad
latin america
nomad
2024.04 - 2021.04
2018.09 - 2018.07
overview
about two years of living & learning throughout latin america over the span of three years (plus a summer in the dominican republic in 2018)
trips
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mexico: león (2024.04 - 2024.03)
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peru, bolivia, paraguay & argentina: lima, cusco, la paz, buenos aires (2024.03 - 2023.11)
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mexico: guadalajara, león (2023.06 - 2023.01)
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mexico: san cristóbal de las casas, guadalajara, guanajuato (2022.12 - 2022.06)
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mexico: san cristóbal de las casas, ciudad de méxico (2021.08 - 2021.04)
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dominican republic: las terrenas (2018.09 - 2018.07)
learnings
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a more holistic, slower way of life
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the importance of family
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abuelas have that food game on lock
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buses are awesome
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poor communication hinders
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less red tape can help incubate culture and small local businesses
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laws are more like guidelines lol
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homelessness is less rampant and visceral in latin cultures
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an appreciation for public amenities in the usa (libraries, parks, facilities, infrastructure, etc.)
job: wyyerd intuition - frontend developer
wyyerd intuition
engineering
frontend developer
2022.06 - 2022.02
product
a web app aimed at internet service providers that assists employees in scheduling and completing a variety of tasks ranging from managing network infrastructure to analyzing client subscriptions
responsibilities
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provide thorough code reviews with an emphasis on iteration
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refactor a number of entrenched components in order to enable a requested feature or fix an outstanding bug while minimizing breaking changes to existing apis
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adapt third-party component libraries to support undocumented use-cases
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participate in establishing best practices for frontend development with a focus on component composition that is fairly formulaic in implementation and resulted in code that was more straightforward to reason about
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participate in sprint planning and issue prioritization
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collaborate with teammates on problems where unobvious or unique solutions were required
tech
vue@2
apollo
bootstrap
playwright
typescript
scss
graphql
git
job: native roots - frontend developer
native roots
operations
frontend developer
2021.04 - 2020.12
product
two unique web stores each serving their own market of cannabis consumers either in colorado, united states or manitoba, canada
responsibilities
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provide clients with a simpler less error-prone purchase flow
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revive an abandoned and brittle nextjs codebase
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stabilize repository via typescript, more comprehensive e2e tests, simpler environment/dependency management, and a modernized palette of development scripts for a streamlined workflow
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migrate from shopify api to dutchie plus api for a smoother cannabis shopping experience
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resolve outstanding wcag 2.1 level aa and ada title iii accessibility lawsuit
tech
nextjs
react
typescript
graphql
nodejs
cypress
firebase
git
job: confident cannabis - junior developer
confident cannabis
wholesale
junior developer
2020.04 - 2019.05
product
a b2b marketplace/network that helps licensed businesses in the cannabis industry manage and transact tested inventory
responsibilities
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empower clients by simplifying their operations in a tightly regulated industry
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improve experience around order creation/management
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collaborate with teammates on monthly milestones
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identify, describe, and patch bugs
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maintain, design, and implement react forms/inputs
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maintain, design, and implement react hooks
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maintain and refactor legacy react components
tech
react
typescript
material-ui
redux
storybook
git
job: datasplice - apprentice developer
datasplice
research & development
apprentice developer
2018.05 - 2016.05
product
an offline-first/mobile-first web app that helps enterprise organize, navigate, and manipulate data regardless of location
responsibilities
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collaborate with teammates towards providing clients with a flexible and reliable platform for assisting workers out in the field
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identify, describe, and patch bugs
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maintain and integrate bluetooth hardware for cordova ios extension
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design and implement a robust component for marking-up/annotating images on the fly
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maintain, design, and implement a shared react components library
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begin refactor of core app functionality towards improved readability/testability by way of redux-saga
tech
react
redux
redux-saga
cordova
coffeescript
git