JARED KELNHOFER

Building insanely awesome technology for a decade, and still loving every minute of it!

sawredjet@gmail.com | GitHub | LinkedIn

Professional Experience

Current Role: Tech Wizard

Currently building core tech for a rapidly expanding company serving tens of thousands of users with a tiny but mighty team.

Projects & Innovations

Chauncey (Under construction). A meditation reminder tool to make the world a better place. Meditation changed my life and I want to give that gift to other people too.
Pics Genie Built the world's first AI-powered T-shirt designer. Funded it by winning $$$ at business plan competitions. Networked with the best tech minds in print-on-demand. Pivoted to a Shopify app. Walked in a fashion show for marketing. Quit my job and worked 12h/day nonstop for 6 glorious months.
Ultra Quote Quoting tool for promo/print shop sites to speed up the quoting process. (Not accepting signups).
Build a Print Shop™ A Shopify app (published in 2024) that adds personalize-able products to e-commerce stores.
Jump Cut Genius Hackathon project (built in a single day) to fully automate the editing of "ums" out of long videos.
ML Research (Emotion Detection) Published by IEEE at age 19. Involved training custom AI models for emotion detection on limited hardware.
Pixel Pulverizer (PixelPulverizer.com) Experiment to trim extra pixels off PNG images in bulk. (Yes it's ugly and I don't care it does what it is supposed to do).
Move Cursor on Startup Official community extension and contribution to the Obsidian project, improving Dataview usability.
G-Switcher Open-source Chrome extension for easy multi-account switching.
Comment Annihilator 3000 Open-source VS Code extension that removes comments (as the name suggests).

Education

Self-Taught

I've spent thousands of hours and read dozens of books teaching myself the ins and outs of tech and business. Learned more by debugging projects at 1 AM and building my own startup for 6 months than any 4 year degree could ever hope to teach.

Washington State University (WSU)

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Data Analytics
Minors in Business Administration and Mathematics

Published Research

"LSTM vs Plot-based CNN for EEG Emotion Detection Tasks"
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9697929

Skills & Expertise

Using limited tools to solve big problems and deliver high-impact results.
Efficient and accurate technical communication with anybody.
Effectively working with non-technical stakeholders to align technology with business goals.
Prioritizing a backlog based on the big picture.
Recognizing that details are 80% of the work.
Giving up when sensible and persisting otherwise.
Fixing hellish bugs in live production systems with money on the line.
Managing a technical team to take big features from 0 to production.

Hobbies

Motorcycles Rock Climbing Coding Urban Exploring (Instagram)