Last updated: 2024-07-17
Hey, I'm Jared Scheib.
I'm passionate about building startups, hiking mountains, speaking foreign languages, Burning Man, emotional intelligence, relationship dynamics, and the beautiful & brave journey of mental health.
I'm a Lead Product Engineer, Entrepreneur, & Coach living in the big pineapple, NYC. 🗽🍍
I love collaboration, teamwork, leadership, & striving to do somethin' big & good with an ambitious & high-integrity team — to make a real, needful, valuable impact in the lives of people & customers.
I've built & shipped technical & consumer products at high-performing, VC-backed, YC-grad startups in NYC & SF, from pre-seed to Series C, including:
AI platform called Paperspace, acquired by DigitalOcean for $111mm in July 2023, for AI engineers to develop & deploy AI Time series database for DevOps engineers to monitor system infrastructure, like Tesla Powerwall and PayPal's global server deployment Social async video community app that facilitated genuine human connection in small groups Game prototype for an NYC media company to pitch for distribution by national newspapers
I'm humbled & proud that my work has made a difference in the lives of folks around the world.
work with me
As a Lead Product Engineer, I build technology for startups & clients with a mind for real customer value, iterating from proof of concept through validation to MVP, growth, and scale.
As a Coach for Startups, Coding, & Tech Career, I support early-stage founders, engineers, product managers, & data scientists as a partner on their vision, goals, strategy, tactics, communication, skills, & day-to-day grind.
I'm available for hire. Wanna chat? Email me or Connect on LinkedIn. 🤘🏼
testimonials
Product Engineering
from Adam Neuhaus, Founder & Creative Producer at Neuhaus Ideas:
Jared was engaged to build a digital game prototype and over-delivered on building the product on deadline. Also and more importantly, he added his own creativity to the process, which helped enhance the finished product.
Jared’s technical expertise mixed with his incredibly high EQ, allowed us to collaborate effectively. His thorough and transparent communication meant that we always knew where we stood on budget and timing, allowing us to focus on the creativity within the parameters.
I would wholeheartedly recommend Jared for a wide array of services.
Coaching
from David, Product Manager at SF startup:
Before receiving mentorship from Jared, I felt completely paralyzed how to move forward in my career. Jared offered insights that provided me with immediate relief and perspective, and he was able to propel me forward in a way no one else was able to.
Jared helped me successfully navigate a job search, and I’m now 8 months into a Product Manager role at an established company. I would not have made this kind of growth, this quickly, without Jared.
more about me
I'm a graduate of USC School of Cinematic Arts with a degree in film production, and also studied neuroscience as an inaugural member of the USC Brain & Creativity Institute.
I'm a graduate of Hack Reactor for coding & Product School for product management.
In addition to technology, I've directed, produced, & sold film, theater, events, & furniture.
I'm from Texas, lived a spell in California, was a nomad for a while, and now call New York City home.
Here I am in a pineapple onesie doing street interviews in NYC. 🍍
In 2020, I founded Pineapple AF, a ridiculously serious technology & events startup rooted in mental health community. 🍍✨ I drew Pineapple AF to a close by the end of 2023, having learned & grown so much.
Our mission was to create tools for people to have healthy relationships.
In early 2023, we produced mental health-positive events for building community & skills around emotional & relational intelligence.
This includes the hit meetup Emotion AI, a community forum about emotional intelligence, artificial & organic, as well as The Big Pineapple, a support group for survivors of Complex PTSD.
During the pandemic, we built Pineapple, an anti social media app for human connection & conversation that facilitates authentic expression in small groups.
In late 2019, Pineapple AF started by producing pineapple restaurant pop-ups in NYC & LA.
From 2020 to 2022, I also founded, designed, produced, & shut down Bizmuth, a furniture collection of beautiful solid wood tables, case goods, and accessories that embody stories of transformation, inspired by the metal crystal bismuth, which I've loved since I was a kid.
I've mentored software engineers & product managers. I've advised startups & small businesses.
Before Pineapple AF, I helped build growth technology startups as a software engineer, product manager, and many-hat-wearer. Two were VC-backed Y-Combinator companies, Paperspace and InfluxData. At InfluxData I built a cloud DevOps platform for observability, i.e. cloud software infrastructure to monitor & keep up systems by capturing, visualizing, & analyzing real-time & historical time series data. At Paperspace I built a general-purpose cloud Artificial Intelligence platform for teams & individuals to build, train, & collaborate on machine learning & deep learning models. Both of these products are technical tools used by other software engineers & AI/ML/DL engineers.
Prior to tech & events, I was an artist-entrepreneur in film, theater, & fine art. One of the movies I directed, produced, edited, & distributed is The Mayor, a 70-min documentary about old people living life to the fullest in a retirement community in Texas, especially focusing on an 88-year-old tailchaser back on the dating scene.
I also directed & dramaturged plays for the stage. Two of my theater works are Doodu Boy & Wrestles with Machista. Both are one-person, autobiographical plays – hilarious & dramatic stories of personal transformation & growth – performed by the person whose story it is, & woven from the fabric of their lives, like personal documentaries on stage.
In addition to film & theater, I co-founded & ran Cecelia Webber Art, where I championed Cecelia's artwork by making it accessible online, believing in its appeal. It went viral, and I managed, sold, & distributed her visual fine art around the world. Check out Cecelia's beautiful art about humanity's intimate connection to nature.
As a consultant & advisor, among other ventures I helped my parents start & grow their Texas cookie company, Eileen's Pralines – ask for the pineapple one! 🍍
I'd love to hear from you. What moves you? What's alive in you? What inspires you? Pineapple me about it! 🍍🤙🏼✨
You can find more about me & watch some of my short films below.
past things i did
films i directed
videos i deep-faked
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