# Jared Strand

> Software Engineer | IBM Cloud

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jaredstrand

A visionary leader, entrepreneur, and lifelong learner.
"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." -John F. Kennedy

## Work Experience
### Advisory Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
IBM Storage, SDSaaS Team
Hybrid-Cloud Billing & Metering Integration

### Advisory Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
IBM Cloud Platform, Core Services
Billing & Metering Team (BSS)

Cloud Billing Microservices • Cloud Platform Infrastructure • High Availability Systems • SLA Compliance • Global API Rate Limiting • Distributed Systems & Caching • IKS • Redis

### Software Developer @ IBM
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
IBM Research, Almaden Genomics Team
Cloud Native Backend Software Developer

Pipeline State Management • Pipeline Resource Control Queue • Internal Tools Ingress & Auth Systems

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Cisco SD-WAN vManage Team
• Full-Stack Dev • Auth & User Management Services (RBAC, IDP) • I18N Accessibility Framework

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
IOS-XE Operating System Infrastructure Team
• CLI Tools • High Availability Services • Network Device Telemetry Processing

### Chief Technology Officer @ HitchHiker Technologies, inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Technical Manager of Engineering App Development Team and Executive Technology Advisor

### Information Technology Associate III (Lead Tech) @ Washington State University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Information Technology Associate II (Tech) @ Washington State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Information Technology Associate I (Supporting Tech) @ Washington State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Pullman, WA

### Airborne Electronic Design and Analysis Engineering Intern @ Boeing
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
Internship outcomes:
• Created a VHDL test bench for an ARINC 429 ASIC using open source (OSVVM) libraries
• Project used as training material to demonstrate auditing & verification engineering techniques

### Parts Specialist @ O'Reilly Auto Parts
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Pullman Washington


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Washington State University

### Minor in Mathematics
Washington State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jaredstrand
- GitHub: https://github.com/JaredStrandWSU

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jaredstrand/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29