# Jarrett Gliner

> Senior Software Engineer at Zipline

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jarrett

Hey! I'm Jarrett! I'm a seasoned full-stack web engineer with a deep passion for building seamless, intuitive web architectures and experiences. My journey in code has spanned over a decade, during which I've had the privilege of wearing many hats — from being the sole engineer and technical co-founder of a groundbreaking esports visualization and statistics engine, to leading key architectural and development initiatives for innovative web-based design tools at Amaze (formerly known as Famous).

My professional narrative is one of continuous evolution, marked by a relentless pursuit of excellence and a deep-seated belief in the transformative power of technology. Specializing in Javascript/Node, Typescript, React, Next.js, vanilla DOM manipulation, Docker, AWS, shell scripting, and SQL of all flavors, I've mastered the art of crafting scalable REST APIs, sophisticated software architectures, and engaging user interfaces. My expertise extends to devising comprehensive production-ready codebases, employing gRPC for microservices connectivity, and leveraging GraphQL within complex web ecosystems.

Between my roles as an Engineer and Software Architect, I've learned the value of adaptability, teamwork, and visionary leadership. Leading projects like the prefabrication engine/admin pipeline in Amaze (Famous) Studio and architecting scalable content systems has been as challenging as it has been rewarding, driving home the importance of resilient, forward-thinking web solutions in a world addicted to boilerplates.

Outside of code, my interests in music, graphic design, mountain sports, travel, and exploring the latest tech innovations keep me inspired and grounded. These passions not only fuel my creativity but also inform my approach to product development: where art meets algorithm, and user experience is paramount.

As I look towards the future, I'm excited about the possibilities that lie at the intersection of web engineering and creative design. I'm keen on contributing to projects that not only leverage my comprehensive skill set but also challenge me to grow and explore new frontiers in technology and design.

* I exclusively work in full-time roles. If you are looking to fill a role on a contract basis, please do not contact me.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Zipline
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Famous
Jan 2017 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Key Contributor/Architect of Amaze (FKA Famous) Studio: An Isomorphic JS/TS-Based No-Code WYSIWYG Tool that Output Smooth, Interactive Web Experiences

- Key Contributor/Architect in Post-Teespring Acquisition Optimization and Rearchitecture


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### Senior Software Engineer VI (Post-Spring Acquisition) @ Famous
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Architected Spring's microservice backend with the goal of supplanting a legacy Ruby/Rails monolith - included redesigned RESTful APIs in NodeJS/Typescript, a GraphQL gateway for directing gRPC calls, and CouchDB for NoSQL storage
- Led microservice rollout, speeding up department-wide adoption via the development and deployment of Springboard: a framework for rapidly launching new microservices, utilizing Jinja2 for template generation and Docker for containerization
- Worked cross-functionally with Product, DevOps, Customer Service, and Fulfillment teams to ensure a stable migration of Spring's Order Routing and Inventory Management services to the microservice architecture via a Springboard-generated repository
- Advised and mentored other Engineering pods within the organization on adoption of Springboard as well as best practices for transitioning their verticals off the monolith
- Implemented an efficient zero-downtime bundling solution for Spring's storefront deployment on Netlify, strategically rolling out the change across hundreds of thousands of sites based on aggregated traffic and sales data, resulting in a reduction of build times from 1 week to 2 hours and $10,000+ of monthly savings in compute costs

### Senior Software Engineer VI (Pre-Spring Acquisition) @ Famous
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led the transition from Javascript to Typescript across the stack, establishing robust type definitions, including an overhaul to optimize and standardize React component development in Typescript
- Served as a key stakeholder and contributor to the company's strategic expansion into ecommerce through a comprehensive integration with Shopify: entailing OAuth integration, Shopify webhook setup, Shopify page modification using their "Liquid" language, and the augmentation of Amaze Studio's content system
- Orchestrated the technical vision, design, and full-stack development of Amaze Wizard: an innovative Typescript-based alternative frontend for Amaze Studio, working closely alongside Product and Design teams, to ingeniously reuse the existing JSON-based project framework for facilitating a more intuitive editing experience
- Initiated and crafted a sophisticated, secure, admin-governed content tagging mechanism within Amaze Studio that identifies and segregates static and dynamic content, enabling Amaze Wizard to precisely tailor customizable fields through data-driven rendering
- Further expanded my prefabrication paradigm to allow for efficient CRUD storage and management of user-uploaded photos and videos (leveraging Postgres and S3), coupled with a user-friendly interface, ensuring seamless asset accessibility and persistence across user accounts in both Studio and Wizard

### Software Engineer V @ Famous
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Architected a Jenkins-based CI/CD framework incorporating Groovy scripting, Docker for containerization, Selenium, and WebdriverIO for UI testing, enhanced with a custom Slack app for deployment approvals, significantly boosting deployment efficiency and reliability to 10k+ regular users
- Led the strategic transition from Redux to MobX for frontend state management, addressing performance bottlenecks and enhancing application responsiveness
- Worked cross-functionally with Design, Product, QA, and DevOps to lead architecture and development of a scalable content extraction and prefabrication system with an in-product admin tool to streamline permissions, testing, and approval workflows
- Headed up integrations with Stripe Checkout and Typeform SDKs for payment processing and lead generation modules, demonstrating capability of embedding and configuring external services within Amaze/Famous Studio for the first time

### Software Engineer IV @ Famous
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Pioneered an isomorphic JSONPatch (RFC 6902)-based Live Preview system, leveraging Websockets to synchronize updates between the React/Redux-based authoring environment and vanilla DOM output in real-time, and using PostgreSQL's JSONB operations to ensure performant data persistence as well as NodeJS for a RESTFul backend, revolutionizing the no-code WYSIWYG tool's design-feedback loop
- Conceived and implemented a sophisticated, robust Undo/Redo system using a JSONPatch-based stack and byte-offset indexing
- Introduced Webpack integration into the Electron build pipeline to streamline ES6+/React/Redux-to-Javascript transpilation and minification, achieving stable bundling for production, as well as hot reloading in development environments

### Founding Engineer @ stage.gg
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Architected and built out a fully isomorphic Node + React + Redux + Webpack stack with server-side rendering on a dedicated frontend server
- Architected and built out a dedicated Node + Restify API backend (including raw MySQL queries executed via Sequelize ORM) that serves the frontend, as well as third-party partners on public endpoints
- Created and maintained a build / release pipeline with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Nginx, and Apache
- Grew traffic from launch to 100k uniques/mo on a single t2.micro AWS EC2 instance
- Developed micro-libraries for data visualization using React and D3
- Integrated a custom WordPress admin frontend that hooked into our database to serve Editorial Content directly to the site
- Mentored interns, onboarded contractors, implemented a code review process, served as gatekeeper of the company’s Git repository (hosted on Bitbucket)

Sold to Mobalytics in Q4 2017 - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stage-esports

Please visit https://stackshare.io/stage-gg for more detailed information about our tech stack.

### Product @ Graphiq (Formerly FindTheBest)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Santa Barbara, California Area
- Managed and grew one of the site’s flagship products from 640k to 1.5m sessions per month (230%) while improving engagement metrics by 130%
- Served as a stakeholder for various cross-team and inner-team initiatives focusing on user experience and monetization
- Utilized MySQL and ETL to maintain a constantly-updating database of 25 tables and ~150,000 listings
- Leveraged Kickstarter’s API feed and transformed over 200k data points into a consumer-facing product with ETL and JavaScript
- Employed constantly-shifting SEO tactics in design
- Managed three outsourcing teams from the Philippines and Pakistan

### Product Intern @ Graphiq (Formerly FindTheBest)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
- Created new products and assisted manager with maintaining older ones
- Developed skills in MySQL, CSS, and ETL

### Affiliate Partnership / RevTech Intern @ Graphiq (Formerly FindTheBest)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Santa Barbara, California Area
- Utilized affiliate networks such as Commission Junction and Rakuten to monetize content across ~300 subdomains
- Built relationships with affiliate partners and added affiliate coverage to over 135 products
- Assisted the Account Management department in reporting

### Intern @ WorldViz
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Santa Barbara, California Area
- Improved UI and assured quality of WorldViz's flagship product, Vizard
- Maintained company WordPress site
- Created graphics and logos
- Wrote several case studies on clients
- Worked directly under the co-founders, took large role in a three-person marketing department

### Intern @ Porch
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
- Worked at a startup with $6.25M in venture capital and saw it through to its launch
- Optimized a database of ~2 million home improvement projects
- Worked extensively with Microsoft Excel and organized a database of ~0.5 million companies
- Consolidated company filesystem with automation through AppleScript
- Furthered professional communication skills by collaborating closely with the co-founder and the programming team


## Education
### Bachelor's
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jgliner

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Last updated: 2026-03-22