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Hi 👋, I'm Jordan

Full-Stack Software Engineer

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.

Pinned

DevPulse Public

Real-time dashboard that folds CI, error-rate and deploy signals into one view.

React Code Live
Lexi Public

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

Python Code

@octocat's contributions in the last year

Jordan Rivera's GitHub contributions

Languages & tools

PythonTypeScriptGoSQLReactNext.jsFastAPINode.jsAWSDockerPostgreSQLRedisGitHub Actions

Experience

Senior Software Engineer @ Northwind Labs

2022 — Present · 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.

Software Engineer @ Brightpath

2019 — 2022 · 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.

Education

University of Texas at Austin

B.S. Computer Science
2015 — 2019 · 3.8 GPA

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services · 2023

Open source & leadership

Mentor

ATX Code Bridge · 2021 — Present

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

Get in touch

Awards & Honors

Hackathon winner — ATX CivicTech 2021