Jarred Sumner

Jarred Sumner is the Founder and CEO of Oven, the commercial software company backing the JavaScript runtime Bun, and is based in San Francisco, California. Prior to creating Bun, he worked as a Frontend Engineer at the financial technology firm Stripe, where he developed his technical expertise in systems performance and developer tooling. Under his leadership, the open-source Bun project has accumulated over 100,000 GitHub stars and millions of weekly downloads as a high-speed alternative to Node.js. Sumner has secured significant venture capital to commercialize the ecosystem, including a $7 million seed round from Kleiner Perkins in 2022 and a $31.5 million Series A led by General Catalyst in 2024. His current focus remains on advancing web performance optimization and expanding Bun's capabilities as a comprehensive toolkit for the broader JavaScript and TypeScript developer ecosystem.