Jared Thompson
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Experienced Senior Software Engineer looking for opportunities to make an impact and grow along the way. Passionate about collaboration, I’m looking to build up to a management or lead role and drive change at the helm.
Overview
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Certification
4
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years of post-secondary education
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4
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Truist
Charlotte, NC
10.2025 - Current
- Orchestrated enterprise-wide vulnerability remediation initiative, reducing container security risks by 90% within 30 days across Artifactory, Azure, ECR ecosystems.
- Engineered scalable ETL pipelines using JavaScript and MongoDB, containerized via RedHat OpenShift and automated through GitLab CI/CD for real-time security data ingestion.
- Architected and enforced an automated governance solution within CI/CD pipelines to block builds referencing unapproved registries, ensuring 100% compliance with base image standards.
- Developed comprehensive observability suite in Grafana, delivering executive-level visibility into container health and security posture across the enterprise.
Senior Software Engineer
Ally
Charlotte, NC
12.2024 - 10.2025
- Led the research and development of a new EOL gating process within GitLab in order to shift left and block EOL software from entering production environments, while ensuring a smooth user experience for developers.
- Acted as a key stakeholder on behalf of DevSecOps to successfully execute the rollout of a new security process to manage container base images across 10,000+ GitLab repositories, to ensure that application teams are always using approved external images, and approved versions of approved external images.
- Served as key stakeholder for DevSecOps in executing rollout of security process to manage container base images across 10,000+ GitLab repositories, ensuring application teams consistently used approved external images and their versions.
- Led development of multiple DevSecOps projects, including centralized dashboard for Quay EOL, vulnerabilities, and SBOM data; CLI tool for scanning source code to validate GitLab job configuration and migrate non-compliant teams; and CAM dashboard providing senior management with overview of application risk levels based on vulnerabilities across GitLab repositories.
Software Engineer
Brooksource
Charlotte, NC
10.2023 - 12.2024
- Developed and maintained homebrew security scan in GitLab pipelines, enforcing Enterprise DevSecOps standards using Python and GitLab Compliance Frameworks.
- Created ETL pipelines with GraphQL, GitLab API, ServiceNow API, and in-house APIs to gather metrics and enhance observability for upper management.
- Built dashboards with Vue.js, Python, Flask, and AWS API Gateways to visualize compliance data.
- Provided technical support to application teams while mentoring new hires on Enterprise DevSecOps best practices.
Application Programmer
RAM Technologies Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
06.2022 - 09.2023
- Led development and implementation of business requirements for HEALTHsuite and eHEALTHsuite applications as primary developer on strategic operations team.
- Demonstrated skill in both frontend and backend disciplines, utilizing Java, Typescript, HTML, Angular, and SQL to build,support, and deploy 13 new features and 30+ bug fixes to production in our HEALTHsuite and eHEALTHsuite applications.
- Collaborated with business analysts, QA engineers, and fellow developers to ensure timely and effective software delivery to clients.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science -
Bluefield State University
Bluefield, WV 08.2018 - 05.2022
Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, C+ +
- CICD: GitLab
- AWS Technologies: S3, EC2, ECR, ECS, Glue, Athena
- IAC: Terraform
- Frameworks: Vue.js, Quasar, Angular, NodeJS, PrimeNG
- Databases: DynamoDB, SQL, MongoDB
- GraphQL APIs
- Project Management: Jira, Zendesk
- AI Tooling: Claude Code, GitLab Duo
Certification
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (January 5, 2023)
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Truist
10.2025 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Ally
12.2024 - 10.2025
Software Engineer
Brooksource
10.2023 - 12.2024
Application Programmer
RAM Technologies Inc.
06.2022 - 09.2023
Bachelor of Computer Science -
Bluefield State University
08.2018 - 05.2022