Jarrod Connolly
Founder at Brightest Circle
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJarrod Connolly is a staff software engineer and strategic engineering leader based in Vancouver with over two decades of experience building and scaling backend systems for games and enterprise SaaS. He founded Brightest Circle to advise startups and lead R&D in areas like compiler design, WebAssembly experimentation, and agentic AI tooling, bringing a rare blend of product instincts and deep technical curiosity. Jarrod has driven large-scale API and observability work across studios including Phoenix Labs, Kabam, Respawn, and Fortis Games, and has a track record of taking 0-1 systems to production at scale. He pairs hands-on implementation (C#, Node.js, Python) with architectural leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration on security and anti-cheat for massive player bases. Outside engineering he has significant civic leadership experience influencing municipal childcare policy and leading a school PAC, reflecting a talent for stakeholder management beyond tech. Notably, he blends blue-sky research with pragmatic delivery—patented front-end acceleration work early in his career foreshadowed later contributions to performance and platform engineering.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
183reputation
60kreached
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Github Skills (134)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jarrodconnolly/ico-tools
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
Tools for building and validating ICO files
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 3 months
icovalidating
jarrodconnolly/the_ray_tracer_challenge_py
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:31 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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