Jared Velasquez

Jared Velasquez

Software Engineer ยท UCLA

About Me

Hello! I'm Jared, a M.S. CS student at UCLA '26. I've had the opportunity to work across cloud infrastructure, robotics research, and full-stack development. My current focus is in the fields of microservices, reliability, and root cause localization.

Here are some technologies I've built with:

JavaSpringPythonTypeScriptGoAWSAzureGCPTerraformOpenTelemetry

Experience

Product Manager

SoCal Filipinos

Nov 2025 - Present

  • Lead product development and software architecture for social networking mobile app serving SoCal Filipino community, managing team of 5 developers and architecting scalable backend services in Java Spring.
  • Deploy containerized infrastructure on AWS ECS using Terraform IaC templates with automated CI/CD pipelines, implementing resilient design patterns to ensure system reliability at scale.
  • Implement event-driven data architecture using AWS EventBridge to emit events for data analytics pipelines, enabling real-time data processing and visualization capabilities while maintaining system scalability.

Software Engineer Intern

AEG Worldwide

Feb 2025 - Sep 2025

  • Migrated legacy financial data platform to a cloud-native, event-driven Azure TypeScript backend, eliminating recurring outages from VM-specific configurations saving 5+ engineering hours per week.
  • Reduced command-query latency by 75%+ through Redis caching and architectural improvements, directly improving analyst productivity and enabling faster business decisions for vendor negotiations.
  • Improved developer productivity and code quality by 50%+ through refactoring of legacy services, implementing peer-reviewed unit tests, automated CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code standards.
  • Designed fault-tolerant distributed systems using Azure Service Bus and serverless functions, implementing monitoring and telemetry to perform root cause analysis and ensure system reliability under failure scenarios.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCLA Sensing & Robotics Lab

Jan 2024 - Jan 2025

  • Produced 110+ synthetic datasets through an automated pipeline, directly supporting experiments published in ICRA 2025 and reducing reliance on costly field data collection.
  • Enhanced research reproducibility by extending SLAM simulator to generate 3D range-aided datasets and validating accuracy with 60+ automated tests.

Full-Stack Developer

UCLA eHealth Research Lab

Jul 2023 - Jan 2024

  • Architected secure data access layer for health and wellness mobile app, migrating Firebase operations to Google Cloud serverless Python backend with enforced authorization controls to ensure HIPAA-compliant data security.
  • Collaborated with 10+ stakeholders and developers in Agile design and debugging cycles to translate requirements into cloud-deployed features with a strong focus on data privacy and reliability.

My Projects

Club Project

Liwanag

A Tagalog language-learning app developed by students at Pilipinos in Engineering and Science (PIES) @ UCLA. Helps learners practice conversational Tagalog through interactive and personalized question sessions and gamified features.

  • React Native
  • Java Spring
  • AWS

Hackathon Organization

Kapwa Codefest

A national hackathon that enabled students to develop projects to address real-world challenges faced by Filipino businesses. Co-organized with students from UofM Dearborn, UCLA, UCI, UCSD, BU, Vanderbilt, and Wayne State.

  • Next.js
  • Vercel
  • Supabase

Personal Project

Leetcode Scheduler

Track your LeetCode progress via the SM-2 Spaced Repetition algorithm. Acts as a personal notebook for repeating solves for LeetCode problems.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Vercel
  • Supabase

Research Project

3D Manhattan World Simulator

A simulator for the generation of random single and multi-robot range-aided 3D SLAM experiments. Supports the generation of random Manhattan worlds and controlled experiments with parameterized robot navigation and map feature placement.

  • Python
  • RA-SLAM

Thank you for reading.

I'm currently looking for new grad software engineering opportunities and my inbox is always open. Send me an email if you'd like to connect.

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