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Jason Richards

@jasonrichards1

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Innovative Full Stack Developer with 9+ years of experience.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for a challenging role that allows me to leverage my full stack development skills while fostering a collaborative and innovative company culture.

I am an innovative and detail-oriented Full Stack Developer with over 9 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying end-to-end web applications. My expertise spans both front-end and back-end technologies, allowing me to build scalable, secure, and user-centric applications. I have a strong academic foundation in Computer Science, complemented by hands-on experience in industry-leading projects.

Throughout my career, I have successfully led various projects, including optimizing JVM garbage collection strategies at IBM, which significantly improved latency and reduced CPU load. My work at Nanit involved developing real-time data processing pipelines for IoT devices, ensuring high uptime and compliance with healthcare regulations. I am passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to solve complex problems and enhance user experience.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer

IBM

Dec 2022 - Apr 2025 (2 years 4 months)

Redesigned JVM garbage collection strategies and tuned thread pools for 12+ Spring Boot services, slashing 95th percentile latency from 1200ms to 250ms. Eliminated deserialization bottlenecks by replacing JSON with Avro schemas, reducing CPU load by 35% and payload size by 55%.

JVM Spring Boot JSON Avro C .NET Redis Kafka gRPC

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Nanit

Aug 2019 - Nov 2022 (3 years 3 months)

Developed real-time data processing pipelines using Java (Spring Boot) for 500K+ IoT baby monitors, handling 22M+ daily sensor events with 99.99% uptime. Built HIPAA-compliant REST APIs for mobile/web dashboards using Spring Security and OAuth 2.0, enabling secure access to sensitive health data.

Java Spring Boot IoT REST APIs Spring Security OAuth 2.0 PostgreSQL LLM

Senior Software Engineer

99MediaLab

Apr 2017 - Jul 2019 (2 years 3 months)

Led the migration of frontend applications to Angular from AngularJS, enhancing scalability and maintainability of interactive data dashboards and improving real-time data visualization performance by 40%. Architected and optimized Snowflake's cloud-native data platform using AWS services such as EC2, S3, and RDS, enabling scalable data storage and real-time querying.

Angular AngularJS Snowflake AWS EC2 AWS S3 AWS RDS WebRTC WebGL Python SQL

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Texas Tech University

BSc in Computing, Computer Science

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computing with a focus on Computer Science. Gained a strong academic foundation in various aspects of computer science.