JC Jared Cazel Resume

Senior full-stack engineer • React • Next.js • TypeScript • Product-minded engineering

Senior full-stack product engineering for fast-moving teams.

I build clear, useful product experiences across frontend, backend, data, testing, and delivery. My strongest work is turning complex workflows and operational data into products that are easier to understand, use, and maintain.

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About

Senior frontend and full-stack product engineering.

I’m a senior full-stack software engineer with 6+ years of experience building modern web applications with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma, AWS, and CI/CD. I work best where product, UX, and engineering intersect.

My focus is on shipping features that are clear, fast, and useful to real users. That includes frontend architecture, server-side data flows, caching, testing, API work, data modeling, and the day-to-day product decisions that make complex workflows feel simple.

How I build with AI

AI speeds up the work, but I still own the outcome.

Explore quickly

I use Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and ChatGPT for codebase exploration, scaffolding, testing, debugging, and refactoring without giving up engineering judgment.

Ship with intent

I use AI to scaffold patterns, generate tests, debug edge cases, and tighten refactors, then validate the final code with type checks, tests, and product behavior.

Keep quality high

AI assists the work, but I still own architecture, correctness, maintainability, testing, and product judgment.

Experience

Product work with strong frontend and full-stack ownership.

Founding Software Engineer

SightlineOS
April 2026 to August 2026

Restaurant supply-chain software for operators managing inventory risk and purchasing decisions.

  • Led full-stack development for a $3M pre-seed restaurant supply-chain startup, owning end-to-end engineering for 8+ product features used in customer workflows and prospect demos.
  • Designed and built the company’s first AI-powered forecasting product experiences, translating model outputs and supply-chain data into actionable purchasing and inventory recommendations.
  • Built customer-facing recommendation workflows with Next.js, React, and TanStack Query, using caching and query invalidation to keep supply-chain data responsive and up to date.
  • Designed Prisma data models and application workflows for purchase orders, demand forecasts, inventory positions, credit memos, and operational metrics.
React Next.js TypeScript TanStack Query Prisma PostgreSQL

Impact: made forecasting and risk output faster to use and much easier for operators to act on.

Senior Software Engineer

NewsBank
May 2024 to April 2026

Modernization of research products used by libraries, universities, and institutional customers.

  • Engineered GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Next.js and TypeScript monorepos, automating linting, testing, and Docker-based builds; optimized dependency caching and job execution to cut minutes from build times.
  • Built a secure, database-free session management system with Next.js middleware and the jose package, encrypting JWTs in HTTP-only cookies for secure, server-side user authentication.
  • Helped migrate legacy Drupal applications into a modern Next.js monorepo, designing reusable internal packages and shared application patterns across teams.
  • Established an internal NPM package workflow backed by a JFrog package registry, improving code reuse and consistency across teams.
  • Created ADRs and sequence diagrams with senior architects to clarify technical decisions and make implementation work easier to scope.
React Next.js TypeScript RSC GitLab CI Docker

Impact: improved delivery speed and maintainability while keeping a complex institutional research workflow dependable.

Software Engineer

Allera
July 2024 to January 2025

Part-time contract work on full-stack SaaS features for a manufacturing and QA platform.

  • Developed fine-grained RBAC with GraphQL and AWS Cognito for food-safety workflows and administrative access, giving teams more precise control over user permissions.
  • Built supplier template and audit-log systems in TypeScript and React to streamline setup and improve workflow visibility.
  • Implemented bulk editing, copying, and PDF export with custom React hooks to reduce repetitive work in QA workflows.
React TypeScript AWS Amplify GraphQL Lambda

Impact: removed a lot of repetitive operator work and made QA, supplier setup, and approvals much more scalable.

Software Engineer

TMX
January 2020 to November 2023

Product and editorial tooling for newsroom operations and publishing workflows at an early-stage media platform.

  • Led development of an MVP newsroom dashboard that aggregated live story data for an early-stage media platform.
  • Built referral onboarding and authentication improvements supporting the platform’s growing user base.
  • Built a custom Redux-based uploader with AWS Cognito authentication that simplified user-generated content submissions.
React AWS Cognito Node Authentication

Selected work

Product features built to make real workflows easier.

AI product experience 2026

Supply continuity recommendations

Built a product experience for operators who needed to make purchasing decisions from fragmented inventory-risk information. The workflow consolidated metrics, model recommendations, and supporting evidence into a clearer view.

  • React, Next.js, TanStack Query, Prisma, PostgreSQL
  • Product ownership from design through implementation
  • Worked with data engineers on forecasting model outputs

Why it mattered: made inventory risk and purchasing guidance easier for operators to understand and act on.

Delivery platform 2024 to 2026

CI/CD platform at NewsBank

Built and documented GitLab CI/CD workflows for Next.js and TypeScript monorepos, with Docker builds, linting, tests, SonarQube, JFrog, dependency caching, and parallel job execution.

  • Improved developer feedback time and build reliability
  • Documented the workflow and rolled it out to the team
  • GitLab CI/CD, Docker, SonarQube, JFrog

Why it mattered: gave teams a more consistent path from change to validated release.

Security architecture 2024 to 2026

Secure session architecture

Designed a database-free session management system for a Next.js application, keeping authentication logic server-side and protecting session data in encrypted cookies.

  • Next.js middleware, jose, encrypted JWTs
  • HTTP-only cookies and server-side authentication
  • Architecture decision records and sequence diagrams

Why it mattered: established a clear, reusable authentication pattern in collaboration with senior architects.

Toolbox

Core strengths across product, frontend, and platform work.

Frontend

TypeScript React Next.js JavaScript TanStack Query

Backend & data

Node.js Express PostgreSQL Prisma SQL GraphQL REST APIs

Cloud & DevOps

AWS GitLab CI/CD Docker JFrog SonarQube Vercel

Testing & quality

Jest Vitest Playwright React Testing Library Type safety Code review

AI workflow

Claude Code Cursor Copilot ChatGPT Code exploration Test generation Refactoring

Contact

Let’s build something thoughtful.

Open to senior full-stack, frontend, and product engineering roles, especially teams where engineers own meaningful product problems end to end.

jjcazel@gmail.com