Jordan Rivera

01.

About

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.

02.

Experience

2022 — Present

Senior Software Engineer · Northwind Labs

Remote

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.

2019 — 2022

Software Engineer · Brightpath

Austin, TX

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

03.

Selected work

D

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

Live Demo GitHub

L

LexiCheck out

Python, spaCy

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

PythonspaCy

GitHub

04.

Skills & tools

Languages

PythonTypeScriptGoSQL

Frameworks

ReactNext.jsFastAPINode.js

Cloud And Tools

AWSDockerPostgreSQLRedisGitHub Actions

05.

Education

University of Texas at Austin

B.S. Computer Science

2015 — 2019 · 3.8 GPA

06.

Leadership & activities

2021 — Present

Mentor · ATX Code Bridge

Pair weekly with career-changers learning their first backend stack.

07.

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services · 2023

08.

Open source

09.

Get in touch

Have a role or a project in mind? I'd love to hear from you.

jordan.rivera@example.com +1 (555) 012-3456