Software Engineer · Virginia

Software and web development for businesses and government.

I'm Jared Howard, a software engineer. I build custom web applications, internal tools, and automated test suites — and I keep them running after launch.

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What I do

Commercial

For small businesses

Custom web apps, SaaS dashboards, e-commerce storefronts, and internal tools — designed, built, hosted, and maintained. Billed as project fees, retainers, or subscriptions.

Public sector

For government

Application development, systems integration, and test automation for public-sector work, under NAICS 541511, 541512, and 513210. See the capability statement.

Selected work

Flakey

Self-hosted, CI-agnostic test-reporting dashboard — ingests Cypress, Playwright, Jest, and pytest results with flaky-test detection and multi-tenant Postgres row-level security.

  • SvelteKit
  • TypeScript
  • Node
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
GitHub

Meryl Green Designs

E-commerce site for a design studio — gallery, PayFast checkout, and an owner-managed CMS. Serverless on AWS, provisioned end-to-end with Terraform.

  • SvelteKit
  • Hono
  • AWS Lambda
  • Sanity CMS
  • Terraform
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Account Payables

Full-stack accounts-payable app — multi-tenant invoice intake and approvals behind a Python API and a SvelteKit front end.

  • SvelteKit
  • FastAPI
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
GitHub

Cross-platform fitness app

Running, gym, and nutrition app — Flutter on iOS and Android with native Apple Watch and Wear OS companions, a SvelteKit web app, and a Supabase backend.

  • Flutter
  • SwiftUI
  • SvelteKit
  • Supabase
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disag

Disaggregates monthly streamflow into daily flows — a Python port of a legacy Delphi/Pascal hydrology model, with a SvelteKit web app and cross-platform CLI.

  • Python
  • SvelteKit
  • Terraform
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Going Dark

Mobile-first RTS/FPS hybrid — command camps, then possess a single unit and go dark. Pre-production design plus a custom Rust game engine.

  • Rust
  • WGSL
  • Kotlin
GitHub

About

I'm based in Virginia and work as a QA software engineer at enChoice, Inc., building and maintaining automated test suites. Alongside that I run an independent development practice. My CV has the full background, and my code is on GitHub.

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