Hi, I am Jordan Rivera
Full-Stack Software Engineer 

I build fast, reliable web apps end to end — from database schema to design system.

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About Me

I'm a full-stack engineer who likes turning fuzzy problems into simple, well-tested software. Lately I've been focused on performance work and developer tooling. Outside of work you'll find me trail running or tinkering with small open-source CLIs.

Skills

PythonTypeScriptGoReactNext.jsFastAPINode.jsAWSDockerPostgreSQLRedis SQLGitHub Actions

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Northwind Labs

  • Led migration of a monolith to a modular service architecture, cutting p95 latency by 38%.
  • Built the internal design-system component library now used by four product teams.
  • Mentored three engineers and introduced trunk-based development with preview deploys.
2022 — Present

Software Engineer

Brightpath

  • Shipped the customer billing portal (React + FastAPI) serving 120k monthly users.
  • Cut infrastructure spend 25% by right-sizing containers and adding request-level caching.
2019 — 2022

Featured Projects

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DevPulseCheck out ↗

React, FastAPI, WebSockets

  • Real-time dashboard that folds CI, error-rate and deploy signals into one view.
  • Open-source, 800+ GitHub stars.
ReactFastAPIWebSockets
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LexiCheck out ↗

Python, spaCy

  • CLI that summarizes and tags long PDFs locally, with no API calls.
PythonspaCy

Education

B.S. Computer Science

University of Texas at Austin

2015 — 2019 · 3.8 GPA

Activities & Leadership

Mentor @ ATX Code Bridge

  • Pair weekly with career-changers learning their first backend stack.
2021 — Present

Open Source

Jordan Rivera GitHub contributions

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services • 2023

Awards & Honors

Hackathon winner — ATX CivicTech 2021

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