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JARED PRUDHOMME

@jaredprudhomme

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Senior software engineer building reliable distributed payment and fraud systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build and scale backend distributed systems—especially real-time payments, fraud, and observability—while owning SLO-driven reliability. I want to ship production-ready microservices, event pipelines, and actionable monitoring that improve latency, uptime, and incident response.

I’m a results-driven Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building and scaling large-scale distributed systems and payment infrastructure at Google and Amazon. I focus on delivering high-impact backend platforms for real-time transaction processing, fraud detection, and cloud observability under strict SLOs.

I’ve architected and operated high-availability payment processing and fraud risk systems, supporting global transaction workflows with sub-second latency. By using scalable microservices and event-driven architectures, I reduced transaction latency by 30% and improved system throughput by 40%.

I also design large-scale telemetry and data processing pipelines using streaming and batch frameworks. This work enabled real-time analytics and monitoring across thousands of services—improving query performance by 35% and reducing incident diagnosis time by 30%.

With strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and production-grade reliability, I implement distributed tracing, monitoring, and fault tolerance. I’ve integrated machine learning models into production risk systems (including Vertex AI) to reduce false positives by 20% and improve fraud precision while maintaining PCI-DSS compliant architecture.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Google

Feb 2020 - Present (6 years 5 months)

Led development of AI-driven payment authorization and fraud risk systems, enabling real-time risk-aware decisioning across distributed payment infrastructure and risk engines. Architected and operated high-availability microservices and built observability, streaming fraud detection pipelines, and AI model integrations for global, high-volume transaction processing.

Java Go Python C gRPC Kubernetes Pub Sub Apache Beam C++ (Low Latency Services)Vertex AI OAUTH2 Prometheus OpenTelemetry Next.js TypeScript REST APIs

Software Engineer

Google

Aug 2016 - Feb 2020 (3 years 6 months)

Designed and built scalable time-series telemetry ingestion systems and gRPC-based backend APIs in a distributed microservices architecture. Developed streaming/batch telemetry pipelines, Borg-based distributed tracing, and SLI/SLO-driven monitoring and dashboards to improve query latency and incident diagnosis time.

Java Python C gRPC Microservices Pub Sub BigQuery C++ (Telemetry Ingestion)Borg Based Systems SLOs Error Budgets React TypeScript

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services

Nov 2013 - Aug 2016 (2 years 9 months)

Built B2B procurement, entitlement, SaaS licensing, and subscription provisioning backend systems for healthcare and life-science applications. Developed security/compliance automation and event-driven data integration services for HIPAA/GxP standards and AWS data storage/analytics workflows.

Java PostgreSQL Ruby on Rails REST APIs Python Kafka Amazon S3 Amazon Redshift React AngularJS Compliance Automation HIPAA GxP

Software Engineer

Amazon

Jul 2010 - Nov 2013 (3 years 4 months)

Engineered mission-critical shipping rate and availability services used by many client applications at high transaction scale. Served as a founding engineer on an internal configuration-management platform, building core proposal management APIs and improving components to meet strict SLAs on large-scale datasets.

Query Optimization Configuration Management API Development SLA Management