I ship maintainable, high-performance web apps for fast-moving startups, creative agencies, and companies like Apple, OpenAI, and Comcast.

Experience:: 8+ years
Focus:: Front-end-leaning full-stack development
Location:: New York City, NY

I take ownership of projects from planning to deployment, collaborate effectively across teams, and reduce technical debt while delivering features. Lately, I've been exploring LLMs and emerging AI cloud services.

I'm actively looking for a full-time role at a thoughtful, purpose-driven startup—NYC or remote—as a senior front-end or full-stack developer. I'm also currently taking on select freelance projects, always excited to work with new people on fresh challenges.

Huge & Elephant

I've been fortunate to work with sister companies Huge & Elephant on a variety of contract projects. Each engagement has brought new challenges, creative problem-solving, and the opportunity to collaborate with talented designers, developers, and strategists.

Blackstone

Created an animated banner ad generator and produced ad variants for a high-impact Google Ads campaign.

OpenAI - Interactive Articles

Built interactive widgets showcasing DALL-E and GPT-3, published alongside articles on openai.com.

Elephant.is Website

Contributed to Elephant.is, the agency's website.

Comcast (Xfinity, Peacock)

Evolved Peacock prototypes in React Native for tvOS, guided by usability testing. Also built an in-store iPad experience deployed to 600+ Xfinity retail locations.

Apple

Worked on apple.com/tv-pr — found performance bottlenecks, phased out legacy tooling, and collaborated with Apple's CMS team on API design. Also worked on an internal tool, delivering glassmorphism and WebGL shader effects.

Direct Client Work

Over the years, I've worked with a range of companies and organizations on projects spanning web development, design systems, and creative technology.

The Luupe - Photography Platform

Built a full-featured web platform and marketing blog for a global marketplace empowering hundreds of women and non-binary photographers across 50 countries to connect with brands like Sweetgreen, Peloton, and Facebook.

Thought Catalog Agency - Agency Website

Developed a visually compelling agency website featuring unconventional layouts and animated infographics, built with Tailwind CSS to maintain design integrity across all screen sizes.

Studio Apartment - Design Studio Website

Built a design studio portfolio website using Jekyll and CSS Grid, generating case studies from Markdown files with responsive image loading for optimal performance.

Dojobase - Professional Community Platform

A professional community platform where users could create sub-communities specific to their industry, featuring sophisticated user access management, role-based permissions, and a fully-featured, Reddit-like discussion forum.

Linode - Style Guide Website

Created a style guide website documenting Linode's design system, providing developers and editors with copy-pasteable, zero-dependency code blocks for maintaining consistency across their pages.

Tolli - Artist Networking App

Built an artist networking app designed to help creatives connect and collaborate on projects, prioritizing security considerations like content moderation and user privacy.

Moni Jar - Mobile Savings App

Led development of a mobile app designed to let people collaboratively save money in a shared virtual savings jar for things like vacations, gifts, and events.

826CHI - 2016 Annual Report

This 2016 annual report for Chicago nonprofit 826CHI showcases the organization's work supporting students in developing their writing skills and helping teachers inspire their students to write.

826CHI - 2017 Annual Report

This 2017 annual report for Chicago nonprofit 826CHI showcases the organization's work supporting students in developing their writing skills and helping teachers inspire their students to write.

Call & Response Music Practice Tool

A Duolingo-style app that plays melodies for you to play back on your instrument, with automatic pitch detection and adaptive difficulty levels.

Sugarstream - Concert Streaming App

A streaming app for discovering and listening to classic concerts from SugarMegs, an enormous archive dating back to the 1920s.

fs-shows - Concert Streaming Library

A flexible npm library that generates a browsing and streaming experience from a remote filesystem, using filename conventions to organize concerts.

Jared was a pleasure to work with at our shared time at Elephant … I could count on Jared to raise important UX, engineering and feasibility considerations. Any team would be lucky to have him.

Brittney Kernan

Team Leader & Software Engineer at

Incredibly professional and nice guy to work with. Genuinely went above and beyond the product requirements.

Avi Muchnick

Cofounder of Aviary (acquired by )

Jared has been a great resource … promptly executes on updates … is a pleasure to work with.

Susie Baker

Chief Operating Officer at

Jared is one of the most creative and determined developers you will ever meet. He brings an all-world mindset to his programming, and is unflappable against challenges and roadblocks as they come up.

Adam Spunberg

Global Head of Operations, 100+ Accelerator,

Jared was an outstanding software engineer on our team—technically sharp, collaborative, and always focused on delivering high-quality solutions. He consistently took initiative … technical excellence and strong communication skills.

David Skara

Product Manager at

He accomplished all the things I was worried wouldn't work and was very patient with all my questions and feedback! He was very responsive and quick with updates. He even met with me in person to show me how to use the custom template he built in WordPress. The project met my vision and I am very happy with it.

Denise M.

Graphic design portfolio client

Jared was easy to get a hold of and plan out the project with. He was flexible as we had to change things around mid-project and stuck to timelines and budget.

Zach Holub

Physical therapy website client

Let's work together

I'm actively looking for a full-time role at a thoughtful, purpose-driven startup—NYC or remote—as a senior front-end or full-stack developer. I'm also currently taking on select freelance projects, always excited to work with new people on fresh challenges.

Contact me