Jared A. Scheel

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Nashville, TN
linkedin.com/in/jscheel
jared@jaredscheel.com
+1-615-594-0666
Full-stack engineer skilled in building software systems and teams. Former technical co-founder (with a successful exit), developing high-performing and growing SaaS products for years. Frontend, backend, infrastructure, devops, generative AI, technical leadership, and more.

Work Experience

Head of Engineering

Groove

Jun 2023 - Current
  • Managed a team of 8+ frontend and backend engineers in feature development and reliability improvements.
  • Established a systematic planning and pitch framework, aligning quarterly business goals with engineering efforts.
  • Cut annual cloud costs by $100,000 through vendor negotiation and cost-reduction initiatives.
  • Led development of a generative AI system used by 59% of accounts, featuring a Kafka pipeline & RAG-assisted LLM chat.
  • Defined and coordinated product roadmap across engineering, sales, and support teams, ensuring the successful rollout of new features and iterative improvement releases.
  • Implemented a Bazel-based monorepo, optimizing build time & reducing developer onboarding time to under two minutes.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer and Team Lead

Nov 2015 - Jun 2023
  • Played a key role in major frontend and backend engineering projects, including API design, new feature development, infrastructure improvements, reliability, and more — contributing to revenue growth from $1.2M to $4.8M in ARR.
  • Engineered a real-time data system for synchronizing millions of messages across thousands of frontend clients, ensuring data consistency and collision-free handling.
  • Led performance optimizations, notably increasing core ticket search speed by 5.7x and decreasing database load by 63%.
  • Built an AST-powered code search tool, reducing manual footprint by 11x during a major refactor.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

AcceptOn

Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
  • Architected a provider-agnostic payments REST API, enabling easy integration across multiple platforms.
  • Led migration of a legacy frontend codebase, improve build efficiency and developer experience.
  • Developed a JavaScript payment widget that processed over $1.5 million in transactions.

Technical Co-Founder

Populr & TouchStream

Sep 2011 - Mar 2015
  • Co-founded and led the development of two SaaS products, resulting in a successful company exit.
  • Grew and directed a team that scaled the user base to over 20,000 users.
  • Implemented a block-based WYSIWYG page creator with real-time collaboration features, serving millions of pageviews.
  • Created a customizable HTML/LESS templating system with a public API to enable third-party development.
  • Developed a NoSQL-backed Rails API for managing block-based document designs, simplifying complex content manipulation.

Education

Bachelor of Science

Middle Tennessee State University

Skills

  • Ruby
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Ruby on Rails
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Next.js
  • MySQL
  • ElasticSearch
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Tilt
  • Bazel
  • RESTful APIs
  • GraphQL APIs
  • Monoliths
  • Micro-services
  • CI/CD workflows
  • Generative AI
  • Product ownership
  • Agile and Scrum