Jaraad Hines

About

Product engineer/designer with founder mindset who shipped a blockchain-enabled investor group/governance platform using Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Prisma/Postgres, and Temporal. Emphasizes auth-centric onboarding (SSO + embedded wallet) to make dApp UX feel more like SaaS, and brings strong reliability practices (idempotent retries, reconciliation) plus experience demoing to investors and operating in seed-stage teams (ex-Vouched).

Key Strengths

• Shipped end-to-end full-stack product for blockchain-enabled investor governance platform
• Deep Next.js App Router expertise (Server Actions + cache invalidation for reactive UI updates)
• Designed auth-centric state model for wallet/identity orchestration to improve onboarding continuity
• Strong relational modeling for governance workflows (proposals, memberships, votes) with audit trails
• Data correctness + performance validation using business-rule tests and latency metrics (p50/p90)
• Thoughtful workflow reliability engineering (activity-level retries, idempotency boundaries, reconciliation)
• Cross-functional leadership in early-stage environments (guided backend integration, investor demos)
• Product engineering + design focus on novel UX paradigms to differentiate in competitive crypto/DeFi space

Reference Highlights

• Redesigned an MVP-quality frontend into a professional, usable experience
• Strong end-to-end ownership of the application
• High autonomy with minimal direction
• Creative influence and product leadership as the team grew
• Clarified product experience via user-centric design (vs feature-centric)
• Improved sales demo clarity and customer understanding of the product
• Enlightening at distilling and dissecting value creation
• Collaborative and listens well
• Good architectural judgment around systems and product
• Delivered work appreciated by founder (conversational AI agents)
• Owned initiatives end-to-end through production support
• Strong cross-functional coordination and alignment
• Delivered real-time blockchain data availability on schedule with quality standards
• Solid React/TypeScript skills with attention to performance and UX
• Clean, intentional component architecture
• Improved UI responsiveness by preventing unnecessary re-renders/lag
• Strong relational schema design; thinks through data relationships early
• Thorough post-incident analysis
• Clear ownership and recovery plans for long-running processes
• Helped reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)
• High engineering quality bar
• Enforced strong code review standards
• Pushed for automated testing coverage
• Built observability into processes
• Fast execution; consistently delivered targets on time
• Handles ambiguity well; makes reasonable decisions quickly
• Clear communicator with stakeholders
• Receptive to feedback; not defensive
• Quickly reprioritized and delivered changes within the same sprint

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