Jared Starner

Background across development & product; enabling data-driven decisions with measurable outcomes.

AI

Claude, Copilot, AI/LLM model orchestration, RAG

Cloud & platforms

AWS, GCP, GitHub Enterprise Owner

Planning & collaboration

Jira/Confluence, Azure DevOps, ClickUp, Monday, Figma

Languages & frameworks

TypeScript, SQL, React+RN, Ruby, Python, .NET

Infrastructure

Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, Rancher, Salt

Delivery methods

Rapid prototyping, Agile/Scrum/Kanban, Shape Up

Observability & BI

DataDog, Sentry, Tableau, Firebase, Looker, Grafana

Product analytics & security

Google Analytics, Pendo, Chronicle, Siemplify

Leadership & operations

Task automation, SDLC, Incident Management, delegation, communication

1. Director, Software Engineering

   Cyderes · Cybersecurity

   Mar 2024 – Present

   Player-coach leader for engineering teams, develops feature roadmap, 34 reports in downline. Defines and communicates strategic direction, provides guidance to teams - manages Frontend Web, Mobile, DevOps, Data Ingestion/Pipelines, Data Analytics, and Product Management. Responsible for SOC2 & CMMC 2.0

   • Defines KPIs & metrics for monitoring the success/performance of teams, owns growth plan & hiring
   • Oversees throughput of over 227 TB of data per day, ensuring accurate reporting and alert response
   • Saving over $30k monthly in efficiencies for GCP cloud costs via newly created FinOps working group
   • Manages 0-1 mobile application with React Native, serving case management for enterprise clients
   • Improved Cycle Time across department by ~14% via agentic coding w/ Claude and VertexAI + Aider
   • Reduced PR Pickup Time by an average of 1 day through AI PR Review implementation

2. Senior Engineering Manager

   Beam Benefits · Insurtech

   Nov 2019 – Jan 2024

   Worked across Product & Tech to parse business needs and ensure delivery of new features as a servant leader. Partnered with Legal/Compliance for regulatory requirements; Sales/Operations to launch training; Marketing to ensure visibility; and Customer Support to ensure our users have the best experience possible.

   • Managed development team, coaching through 1-on-1s, performance reviews, responsible for hiring
   • Increased App Store and Play Store reviews from 2.2 stars to 4.7 stars during tenure
   • Increased adoption across member base from under 1000 users to over 40,000 MAU within 2 years
   • IoT connected devices over BLE/MQTT/AWS IoT Core, managed datasets with high transaction volume
   • Stood up internal Co-Pilot usage and exploration Claude/Gemini for engineering efficiency

3. Senior Consultant - Engineering

   HMB Inc. · Software Consulting

   Jul 2014 – Oct 2019

   Directed manual and automated software testing projects for clients. Developed new procedures for workflow management, usability testing, and DevOps. Specialty testing lead for security and performance.

   • Built ML system consuming data across 1000s of IOT devices for vibrational monitoring/maintenance
   • Managed international teams (Germany/India/Poland), designed UX and implementation roadmaps
   • Directed GDPR compliance certification processes for global firm + coordinated with country leads

4. Software Quality Assurance Engineer

   Reynolds & Reynolds · DMS

   Jul 2013 – Jul 2014

   Improved release stability via regression testing on legacy applications & created test plans for newly developing software. Tested Internet syndication products using Java, MySQL, Watir, JavaScript, XML, Linux, and RSS.

   • Developed end-user and customer contact features via Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
   • Established design changes in standardized bug reporting & updated request prioritization

• B.S. Business Administration

  The Ohio State University

  • Major in Marketing, Minor in Aircraft Systems
  • Computer Science coursework
  • Rowing / Crew Team

• Google Generative AI Leader · Google · Jun 2026
• Professional Scrum Master · Scrum.org · Sep 2019
• Private Pilot · FAA · Sep 2010

Artificial intelligence / machine learning work developed for personal education, improving efficiency, automating tasks.

• Local implementation of Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) for design prototyping
  • Prompting for design / modeling / wireframing / prototyping UI/UX
  • Fine-tuning with checkpoints & training data, utilizing Juggernaut XL model
  • Setup with Fooocus UI (also tested with ComfyUI)
• LLM integration for internal documentation / FAQ
  • Utilizing a chatbot trained on internal Confluence documentation for Customer Support
  • Using Hugging Face and an older GPT model
  • Set up model orchestration that switches from frontier models to LocalLLM (Qwen3.5 9B)
• Setup GitHub CoPilot for developers + transitioned to Claude
  • Worked with Compliance/Legal/IT/Security/Engineering to bring CoPilot to 50+ developers
  • Improved test writing / efficiency for standard feature sets
  • Migrated from CoPilot to Claude for department and implemented context-controls along with MCP servers and secret scanning
• Implementation of VertexAI in GCP supplemented with Aider
  • Brought AI coding efficiencies to internal SOAR and Engineering teams
  • Created a standard to be used across the business with support from GRC and IT
  • Provided training on managing context-window and ensuring effective responses

• Individual Member

  The Risk Institute at The Ohio State University

  Since Jun 2018

  The mission at the Risk Institute is to advance enterprise risk management through cross-industry collaboration, academic research, thought leadership and talent development. We strive to be the preeminent resource on enterprise risk management.