My-Resume-Generator/content.json

{
  "name": "Jared Kling",
  "email": "jared@kling.dev",
  "website": "https://portfolio.kling.dev",
  "phone": "(630) 740-0130",
  "header": "Experienced Engineer who transforms ideas into scalable products through technical leadership and team development. Successfully leading cross-functional teams, architecting major system migrations, and improving developer efficiency.",
  "experience": {
    "technologies": [
      "JavaScript",
      "TypeScript",
      "NodeJS",
      "React",
      "MySQL",
      "PHP",
      "C#",
      "ASP.NET",
      "SQL Server",
      "HTML",
      "CSS",
      "AWS",
      "Git",
      "GitLab",
      "Windows",
      "Linux",
      "Docker",
      "Kubernetes"
    ],
    "positions": [
      {
        "company": "Suralink",
        "website": "https://suralink.com",
        "logo": {
          "path": "./logos/suralink.png",
          "includesName": false
        },
        "roles": [
          {
            "role": "Engineering Manager",
            "dates": "2023 - 2025",
            "bullets": [
              "Managed 2 teams of 5 and oversaw the work of integrating with an offshore team.",
              "Executed a migration to Auth0 for additional scalability and security, moving over 1M user accounts and having <10 support tickets.",
              "Delivered key initiatives on time, such as: integrating with external partners, seamlessly transitioning a domain out of a monolith and into a microservice, increasing our scalability through proper metrics.",
              "Built the platform to extract value of user uploaded files, enabling our users to work faster and more efficiently.",
              "Reduced an external partner's API calls by 97% by introducing additional data points in our responses.",
              "Assisted in revamping our processes around hiring, incident response, and deployment frequency."
            ]
          },
          {
            "role": "Staff Software Engineer / Team Lead",
            "dates": "2022 - 2023",
            "bullets": [
              "I led a team of 5 engineers through all sprint ceremonies and technical planning sessions",
              "Responsible for a portion customer support, including doing video calls with customers",
              "Mentored multiple engineers on a regular basis, leading to promotions for two of them"
            ]
          },
          {
            "role": "Sr Software Engineer",
            "dates": "2020 - 2022",
            "bullets": [
              "Improved our release cadence from a few times a year to deploying every sprint.",
              "Increased developer efficiency by shifting the development environment locally and by increasing team documentation",
              "Led many large projects such as migrating our Authentication to a microservice, introducing an API and creating a second product"
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "company": "Livly",
        "website": "https://www.livly.io",
        "logo": {
          "path": "./logos/livly.png",
          "includesName": true
        },
        "roles": [
          {
            "role": "Sr Software Engineer",
            "dates": "2019 - 2020",
            "bullets": [
              "Integrated getstream.io into the app to allow property managers to communicate with other members of the building.",
              "Strengthened integration with 3rd party vendor to automate manual data cleansing efforts."
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "company": "PayLease (now Zego)",
        "website": "https://www.gozego.com",
        "logo": {
          "path": "./logos/paylease.png",
          "includesName": true
        },
        "roles": [
          {
            "role": "Jr Software Engineer - Staff Software Engineer",
            "dates": "2015 - 2019",
            "bullets": [
              "Progressed from Junior to Staff Software Engineer, eventually leading a squad of engineers and QA associates.",
              "Architected and implemented major projects, including an in-house billing statement generation system and various partner integrations.",
              "Introduced containerized testing environments using Docker and spearheaded the adoption of unit testing.",
              "Managed development resources in AWS and integrated data from a company acquisition into the main platform."
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "company": "Encompass Insurance (Allstate)",
        "website": "https://www.encompassinsurance.com",
        "logo": {
          "path": "./logos/encompass.svg",
          "includesName": true
        },
        "roles": [
          {
            "role": "Application Developer",
            "dates": "2013 - 2014 (intern), 2014 - 2015",
            "bullets": [
              "Worked on a small team to build a user portal for viewing policy details",
              "Built a support tool using internal APIs to search for policies"
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "education": {
    "university": "Illinois State University",
    "location": "Normal, IL",
    "dates": "2009-2010, 2011-2014",
    "degree": "Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Minor in Mathematics"
  },
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "Website",
      "href": "https://portfolio.kling.dev"
    },
    {
      "label": "Git",
      "href": "https://git.kling.dev/jared"
    }
  ]
}