Hi I'm Jordan
Engineer | Lifelong learner. Relentlessly curious.
Passionate about my family, Open Source, Linux, Jiu Jitsu, and being actively involved in my local church.
My Journey
2019-Present
FloSports
From Infrastructure Engineer to Tech Lead, SRE. Building developer platforms, driving cloud migrations, and establishing SRE practices.
2017-2019
General Motors
Big Data Platform Engineer managing 15PB Hadoop clusters. Built monitoring systems, security frameworks, and automation tools in Go and Python.
2016-2017
Lynntech
Research Technician building IoT prototypes with Python, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi. Hardware meets software.
2012-2017
Texas A&M University
B.S. Physics with Math Minor. Started with Higgs Boson simulations in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, running C++ and Bash on distributed computing clusters.
Skills
Languages
Go TypeScript Python Bash Ruby
Platforms
Kubernetes Istio Argo Fastly Kafka
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform CDK Helm Kustomize Nix
Observability
Datadog Prometheus Grafana ELK
Linux? Yes please! Especially love NixOS.
Awards & Certifications
- Advanced GitOps Certification - Akuity, 2024
- Promotion to Tech Lead - FloSports, 2023
- Top Performer - Own It Award - FloSports, 2021
- Promotion to Senior Infrastructure Engineer - FloSports, 2021
- CEO Life Saving Award & CIO Safety Award - General Motors, 2019
- Early Promotion from New College Hire Program - General Motors, 2019
- CIO Distinguished New College Hire - General Motors, 2018 & 2019