Jarred L Humphrey
About

Jarred L Humphrey

Engineering leader with two decades of experience across ad-tech, e-commerce, web, embedded systems, and analytics domains

Denver, CO

Experience

Jane Technologies

Santa Cruz, CA · Remote
Jul 2025 – Present
Senior Director of Engineering current
  • Working with the executive team to define the engineering organization's strategy and roadmap, including hiring, team structure, and process.
  • Aligning engineering initiatives with business objectives and timelines, while balancing technical debt and long-term scalability.
  • Overseeing engineering leads across multiple teams and product areas, mostly focused in advertising technology, core platform architecture, API/SDK tooling, and data engineering.
Jul 2023 – Jul 2025
Director of Engineering
  • Oversaw engineering leads and team output across multiple teams and product areas, including b2b business management, data pipeline + reporting, and core platform APIs.
  • Managed the solutions engineering team, which onboarded, trained, and maintained integrations with third-party integration platforms and dispensary partners.
Jan 2022 – Jul 2023
Lead Software Engineer
  • Worked with a backend team through implementation of a entity scheduling service.
  • Led a full stack team through rewrite of a b2b dispensary management application in React, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails.
  • Established the engineering organization's on-call process and incident response process

Better.com

New York, New York · Remote
Mar 2021 – Jan 2022
Senior Software Engineer
  • Optimized the performance of backend GraphQL services and Node APIs.
  • A/B/n-tested onboarding workflows to maximize conversion.
  • Established the team's observability standards and process.

Accenture

New York, New York
Feb 2020 – Mar 2021
Software Engineering Manager (Adaptly)
  • Led two product teams focused on data availability/reporting and automated creative generation.
  • Owned backend architectural decisions and managed third-party integration breaking changes.
Aug 2019 – Jan 2020
Software Engineering Associate Manager (Adaptly)
  • Guided the engineering team through Accenture's acquisition of Adaptly — integration and adoption of Accenture processes.

Adaptly

New York, New York
Jul 2016 – Aug 2019
Lead Software Engineer
  • Led a backend team of six through a complete rewrite of the backend architecture (RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, Clojure, Java) for stability, performance, durability, and scalability across a distributed system aggregating data from third-party APIs including the Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest Ads APIs.
  • Owned all backend architectural decisions and drove front-end product feature trade-offs while the front-end leads were otherwise occupied.
Oct 2015 – Jul 2016
Senior Software Engineer
  • Designed and implemented backend features in Clojure and Ruby to integrate with multiple third-party APIs at scale.
  • Built distributed solutions for rate limiting, data processing, and API services.
Dec 2013 – Sep 2015
Software Engineer
  • Built front-end product features in Ruby on Rails, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, SASS, and Backbone.js.
  • Co-designed and built an Excel-like web table for ads with virtual scrolling, real-time aggregations/pivots, sorting, search, and inline updates.

Freelance & contract

MemoryAlbum

Brooklyn, NY
Mar 2013 – Nov 2014
Full Stack Software Engineer
  • Designed and built a web-based photo-sharing platform in Ruby on Rails and MySQL.
  • Led a team of 2–3 developers delivering the platform.

Brooklyn Atlantis

Brooklyn, NY
May 2012 – Nov 2014
Full Stack Software Engineer
  • Redesigned the UI for a more responsive, user-friendly interface and optimized back-end code.
  • Led a team of 2–3 developers on the project.

Groove National Dance Competition

Point Pleasant, NJ
Feb 2011 – Jan 2016
Full Stack Software Engineer
  • Built an event scoring and video-capture system for live dance competitions using Java, MySQL, JDBC, and FFmpeg.
  • Built a web-based event registration system on a LAMP stack, integrated with the custom scoring/video system.
  • Worked directly with the CEO, proposing new functionality and product improvements through collaborative iteration.

Center Stage Dance Studio

East Brunswick, NJ
2006 – 2009
Web Developer
  • Redesigned a multi-location dance studio's web presence using HTML, CSS, and Flash for interactive content.

Education

2009–2013
Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU)
Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering
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Skills