Jared Hanson
Backend Software Developer at IBM
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Hanson is a backend software developer with 12 years of experience, currently building systems at IBM from Edmonton, Alberta. He progressed through Level 3 support and specialized QRadar roles into backend development, bringing deep operational insight to production services. An avid language and tooling enthusiast, Jared contributes to the D programming language's standard library—improving std.range's tee function and polishing docs and tests—showing attention to correctness and API ergonomics. His background spans enterprise security products, game and mobile programming, and university consulting, giving him a blend of pragmatic debugging skills and long-term engineering craftsmanship. Notably, his open-source work emphasizes making low-level abstractions both more powerful and easier to use.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Upper Miramichi Regional High SchoolBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of New Brunswick
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
ranges10
dword10
data-structure10
dt10
testing9
documentation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dlang/phobos
Feb 2014 - Apr 2021
The standard library of the D programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 76 commits, 55 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily contributed to the D programming language's standard library, specifically focusing on the `std.range` module. Their work involved implementing and refactoring the `tee` function, enhancing its functionality to support output ranges and lambdas and incorporating random access capabilities. Additionally, the user made documentation improvements, corrected unittests, and addressed code style concerns related to tabs and formatting. The user's efforts contributed to the robustness and usability of D's range library.
programming-languagephobosddlangstandard-library
MetaLang/DIPs
Oct 2016 - Jul 2025
D Improvement Proposals
Contributions:1 review, 16 PRs, 91 pushes in 8 years 11 months
ethereumimprovementproposalsblockchain
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