backend & distributed systems engineer

I build systems that stay up when everything else is on fire.

Seven years shipping infrastructure at scale — queues that don't drop messages, APIs that degrade gracefully, and dashboards nobody has to squint at during an incident.

jordan@localhost — zsh
~/portfolio whoami
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about

I'm a backend engineer who spends most of my time in the unglamorous middle of a system: message brokers, retry logic, and the alerting that tells you something's wrong before a customer does.

Before that, I spent three years on a small team scaling a payments pipeline from thousands to millions of daily transactions, which is where I learned that most outages come from unlikely things happening at the same time.

Outside of work I mentor early-career engineers and contribute to a couple of open-source queueing libraries.

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    let's talk

    Open to backend and infra roles, or just a conversation about queueing theory.