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Hi! I'm Jordan Rivera.

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

Austin, TX
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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.

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Northwind Labs
2022 — Present
Remote
Key Responsibilities & Tech:
  • 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
Key Responsibilities & Tech:
  • 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 & Certifications

Academic Background

B.S. Computer Science

University of Texas at Austin
2015 — 2019
3.8 GPA
Certifications & Courses
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate · Amazon Web Services

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

Technical Stack

Languages

Python
TypeScript
Go
SQL

Frameworks

React
Next.js
FastAPI
Node.js

Cloud And Tools

AWS
Docker
PostgreSQL
Redis
GitHub Actions

Open Source

Jordan Rivera's GitHub contributions

Let's Connect

I'd love to hear from you — whether it's a role, a project, or just a chat about tech.

Email

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GitHub

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Awards & Honors

Hackathon winner — ATX CivicTech 2021