About Jared Schraub

Engineering rigor, modernized — a frontend engineering leader bringing two decades of rigor to modern tooling, functional TypeScript, and AI-assisted teams.

About Jared Schraub

Hi, I’m Jared. I’ve spent the last two decades building robust software systems, leading engineering teams, and trying to convince computers to do exactly what I want them to do.

I am a full-stack engineer and team lead with a career that spans the telecommunications, big tech, and high-frequency finance industries. My path has taken me through T-Mobile and Microsoft, as well as over five years in the financial sector, primarily at Citadel.

Throughout my entire career, I have worked across the full stack. I started out with a heavier focus on backend architecture—spending my days in SQL Server and Java EE—but over time, my center of gravity gradually shifted toward the UI. Today, I run a frontend team at a financial market maker, where we leverage TypeScript, React, and C#/.NET to build high-performance applications.

This blog is where I unpack that experience. It’s a place for me to share my opinions on software development, offer advice on technical leadership, and document the things I’ve learned while solving complex problems in demanding environments.

A Note on AI (Since I Write About It)

I write a lot here about adopting AI without lowering your engineering standards—so it’s only fair to be transparent about how I use it on this site. The prose gets an AI editing pass, and the imagery is AI-generated. But the technical concepts, the opinions, and the architectural calls are 100% mine. The AI is held to the same standard I’d demand on my team: it polishes the delivery, it doesn’t make the decisions.