# Jared Rader > Software Engineer Location: Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jaredrader I'm an entrepreneur turned software developer - passionate about building beautiful and meaningful things. Currently, I'm a full stack engineer at Shopify, helping make commerce better for everyone. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Shopify Jan 2023 – Present ### Engineering Manager @ Shopify Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Remote Engineering manager on the Messaging: Start team, helping merchants discover and gain immediate value from Shopify Inbox, the most popular chat sales tool for Shopify merchants. We build and maintain integrations with Inbox, such as Shopify’s own Online Store chat app, Facebook Messenger, Instagram Direct, and Apple Messages for Business, so merchants can provide sales and support wherever a buyer may be shopping. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Shopify Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Developer on the Messaging team, helping merchants provide sales and support to buyers wherever they shop. ### Software Engineer @ Shopify Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Engineer on the Ping team, a mobile app for merchants to communicate with Kit, Shopify's virtual employee, and customers, by consolidating communications from several channels Launched Shopify Chat, a real-time chat application that allows customers to contact merchants using Ping via chat on the storefront, and allows merchants to support and sell to customers I help improve and maintain the Ping backend, as well as the Shopify-built messaging channels: Facebook Messenger Commerce, Apple Business Chat and Shopify Chat. Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, GraphQL, Kafka, MySQL ### Senior Software Engineer @ Reflektive Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Engineer on Product Platform Team, working on tools and features used across products Built internal Feature Rollout tool allowing Product Managers to mass-enable features for customers Implemented Single-Logout for customers using SSO providers Built data pipeline between Engagement Survey product and Reflektive Data Analytics tool ### Technical Lead @ Reflektive Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Tech lead of Real-Time Feedback & Profiles products Built full stack implementation of newsfeed for user profiles Optimized query performance of Profile product to ensure snappy page loads Contributed to frontend UI, building React components and managing state with Redux Built JSON API-compliant endpoints for frontend engineers ### Software Engineer @ Reflektive Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Built full stack implementation of feature allowing employees to request feedback from and about peers Built full stack implementation allowing admins to log in as other users, with idle session detection and logs of actions taken on users' behalf Built full stack implementation for email subscribe/unsubscribe system Built full stack implementation allowing companies to show terms of use for specific locations Led effort to upgrade Rails version Vigorously refactored legacy codebase to follow common design patterns in Rails apps Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, ES6, React, Redux, RxJS, Backbone, Postgres, Heroku, AWS, Kinesis, Webpack ### Software Engineer @ Bloc, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Built out hundreds of features, improved code quality and optimized performance for the Bloc web application, helping scale it to handle several courses, hundreds of mentors and thousands of students and alumni Rebuilt frontend UI for internal messaging system between students and mentors and staff and mentors, according to design specs, emulating an email client experience and tripling unique message sends within a year Implemented architectural changes necessary for the launch of Bloc's two flagship products, the Software Developer Track and Part-Time Web Developer Track Improved UX of student roadmap in accordance with design specs Migrated much of the frontend code from hybrid HAML/Angular to independent Angular components Improved and helped maintain custom ETL application written in Ruby that powers Bloc's data warehouse Wrote well-structured tests to ensure code is production-ready and maintainable Aided career services team conducting mock interviews for students looking to get careers as software engineers Gave in-house tech talks on topics such as design patterns and refactoring code Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, Angular 1.x, ES6, Node, React, JS Data, Postgres, Heroku, Redis, AWS, Webpack ### Coach (part time) @ Dev Bootcamp Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Mentored students on their journeys to become full stack engineers by pairing, doing code reviews, giving talks and more. ### Ruby on Rails Developer @ The DevShop Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Built and deployed 6 full stack web applications in three months using Ruby on Rails Worked with project management and designer to define project scope, implement user stories and respond to client feedback Utilized popular gems and libraries such as ActiveMerchant, Simple Form, Inherited Resources, Delayed Job and ElasticSearch. Built highly interactive interfaces with jQuery, CoffeeScript and AJAX Set up production environments on DigitalOcean servers and deployed using Capistrano Taught class on HTML, CSS and JavaScript to non-technical DevShop staff ### CEO @ LittleFish Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Used lean startup and business model canvas to determine market and inform development of LittleFish platform, a social media analytics tool Secured $20,000 seed investment upon acceptance to VentureSpur, a seed capital fund and tech accelerator in Oklahoma City Managed product development based on customer feedback Assisted senior developer in implementing new features, refining LittleFish analysis algorithm and numerous bug fixes Prepared slide deck and made pitches to investors at demo days in Oklahoma City and Dallas ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Journalism University of Oklahoma Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Chinese University of Oklahoma Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ### Web Development Dev Bootcamp Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ### Ruby on Rails Bloc Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 ### Advanced Conversational Chinese in U.S.-China Relations, Chinese Newspaper Reading Harbin Institute of Technology Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 ### Pre-Advanced Chinese Yunnan University Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raderjared --- Source: https://flows.cv/jaredrader JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jaredrader/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22