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  "basics": {
    "name": "Jared Rhodes",
    "label": "Microsoft Azure MVP and software architect building edge and hybrid cloud demos across Azure, AWS, and local infrastructure.",
    "email": "jrhodes@qimata.com",
    "url": "https://jaredrhodes.com",
    "summary": "As a Microsoft Azure MVP, I build practical edge and hybrid cloud demos that run across Azure, AWS, and local private cloud infrastructure. My basement lab combines custom Tenstorrent servers with NVIDIA-enabled and general-purpose systems so I can test the same workload across multiple deployment paths. I focus on reusable architecture patterns, especially event-driven edge inference and cloud feedback loops. I also share these patterns through conference talks, community sessions, and hands-on demo walkthroughs.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Marietta",
      "region": "Georgia",
      "countryCode": "US"
    },
    "profiles": [
      { "network": "GitHub", "url": "https://github.com/QiMata" },
      { "network": "LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/qimata/" },
      { "network": "Sessionize", "url": "https://sessionize.com/jaredrhodes/" }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    
    {
      "name": "EPAM Systems",
      "position": "Principal Consultant",
      "summary": "Lead enterprise technology strategy and modernization programs across Microsoft cloud, data, AI, application, and edge platforms; build go-to-market offerings for the Microsoft Business Group; shape production architectures for AI agents, data platforms, and connected systems.",
      "startDate": "2024-11",
      "endDate": ""
    },
    
    {
      "name": "Total Wellness Innovation",
      "position": "Chief Executive Officer",
      "summary": "Set strategic direction for the Whole You app and a suite of healthcare APIs including the Medical Library, Patient Tracker, and Clinical Translator.",
      "startDate": "2023-04",
      "endDate": "2024-11"
    },
    
    {
      "name": "EPAM Systems",
      "position": "Principal Consultant",
      "summary": "Cloud architect for insurance, retail, automotive, logistics, and oil and gas clients: new insurance line on Azure, retail migration to Azure, emergency cloud migration, multi-subsidiary cloud strategy, and Microsoft partnership initiatives.",
      "startDate": "2019-10",
      "endDate": "2023-04"
    },
    
    {
      "name": "Pluralsight",
      "position": "Author",
      "summary": "Created Azure and related training content.",
      "startDate": "2018-08",
      "endDate": "2021-04"
    },
    
    {
      "name": "QiMata Technologies LLC",
      "position": "Independent Consultant",
      "summary": "Azure IoT and IoT Edge architectures for commercial hardware and traffic management, Xamarin Forms mobile apps, and ASP.NET and Service Bus platforms for health, wellness, and insurance clients.",
      "startDate": "2015-07",
      "endDate": "2021-04"
    },
    
    {
      "name": "Magenic",
      "position": "Senior Consultant",
      "summary": "Xamarin Forms fundraising app, ASP.NET Web API and OData integrations for manufacturing, ecommerce platform architecture leading a remote team of five, and healthcare insurance WCF services.",
      "startDate": "2012-05",
      "endDate": "2015-06"
    },
    
    {
      "name": "Infinity Insurance",
      "position": "Software Engineer",
      "summary": "Company-wide WCF services and reusable C# libraries on Oracle 10g; maintained batch systems and C++ applications.",
      "startDate": "2011-02",
      "endDate": "2012-05"
    },
    
    {
      "name": "Cardinal Energy",
      "position": "Application Developer",
      "summary": "Managed C++ batch jobs and maintained an ASP.NET site.",
      "startDate": "2009-08",
      "endDate": "2011-02"
    }
    
  ],
  "education": [
    
    { "institution": "Southern Polytechnic State University", "startDate": "2005", "endDate": "2011" }
    
  ],
  "awards": [
    
    { "title": "Microsoft MVP", "date": "2017-03" },
    
    { "title": "Xamarin Certified Developer", "date": "2016-03" }
    
  ],
  "skills": [
    
    { "name": "Azure" },
    
    { "name": "AWS" },
    
    { "name": "Edge AI" },
    
    { "name": "IoT" },
    
    { "name": ".NET" },
    
    { "name": "Hybrid cloud architecture" },
    
    { "name": "Event-driven systems" }
    
  ]
}