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Hi, I'm Jordan

A Full-Stack Software Engineer
based in Austin, TX

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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.

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Experience

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.

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.

Skills

Python TypeScript Go SQL React Next.js FastAPI Node.js AWS Docker PostgreSQL Redis GitHub Actions

Projects

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DevPulse Check 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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Lexi Check out

Python, spaCy

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

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services • 2023

Extracurriculars

Mentor

ATX Code Bridge

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

Open Source

Jordan Rivera's GitHub contributions

Awards & Honors

Hackathon winner — ATX CivicTech 2021

Contact

Let's connect for roles, collaborations, or a quick conversation about building good work.