Jaron Pate

Software Engineer

Software engineer who builds things from the ground up. Experienced owning problems and shipping reliable applications.

What I've Done

Software Engineer

Edlink

Apr 2022 – Present
Austin, TX

  • Built and maintained integrations across legacy and modern education systems, standardizing inconsistent data models into the unified API at the core of Edlink's platform.
  • Reduced manual billing effort to near 0 with an internal billing platform with automated invoicing and usage tracking across roughly 150 client orgs.
  • Built a flexible CSV ingestion and mapping system for complex data transformation and validation preventing one-off engeering work.
  • Built a client-embeddable widgets and an SDK to simplify customer implementation and reduce repeated integration work by developers.
  • Hardended platform security and improved developer experience with infrastructure improvements including a secure sandbox for running untrusted code and a live preview service for inspecting data changes before full pipeline execution.

Stuff I've Used

Languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, Go

Frontend

Vue, Nuxt, React, embeddable widgets

Backend

Node.js/Bun/Deno, REST APIs, integrations, billing systems, data pipelines

Tools & Platforms

AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Things I've Built

Unicord

Discord bot SDK inspired by web server architecture, built to make command and event handling more structured.

Mystwright

AI-driven mystery detective game for generating, investigating, and solving dynamic cases.

Rift Buddy

League of Legends rune page manager for saving, organizing, and reusing rune configurations.