Hi, I'm Jordan

Engineer | Lifelong learner. Relentlessly curious.

"Complexity very bad. Say no to complexity."

My Journey

2019–Present

FloSports

From Infrastructure Engineer to Tech Lead Manager. Building developer platforms, driving cloud migrations, and establishing SRE practices for a live sports streaming platform.

2017–2019

General Motors

Big Data Platform Engineer managing Hadoop clusters with thousands of users. Built monitoring systems, security frameworks, and automation tools.

2016–2017

Lynntech

Research Technician building IoT prototypes with Python, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi. Hardware meets software.

2014–2014

Texas A&M Department of Physics & Astronomy

Introduction to distributed computing. Simulated Higgs Boson particle collisions using C++ and Bash.

2012–2017

Texas A&M University

Bachelor of Science in Physics with Mathematics Minor

Skills

Specialized Skills

Developer Platforms GitOps Immutable Systems SLOs Load Testing Distributed Systems Incident Response

Languages

Go TypeScript NodeJS Python Bash

Platforms

Kubernetes Istio Argo SST Fastly Spark Kafka Hadoop

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform CDK Helm Kustomize Ansible Chef Puppet

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Kibana Datadog APM

Linux

NixOS Ubuntu Oracle Enterprise Linux Amazon Linux Fedora CentOS Debian

Yes please! Especially love NixOS

CI/CD

GitHub Actions Jenkins Google CloudBuild

Databases

MySQL Postgres DynamoDB BigQuery HBase Hive InfluxDB

Caches

Redis Memcached Varnish (Fastly)

Indexes

Elasticsearch Solr Manticore OpenSearch

Management

Hiring Contracting Roadmapping 1:1s Performance Reviews OKRs

Project Management

Agile Scrum Kanban Jira Confluence PI Planning Standups Retrospectives Scrum Master

Awards & Certifications

Advanced GitOps Certification 2024
Promotion to Tech Lead FloSports, 2023
Top Performer - Own It FloSports, 2021
Promotion to Senior Infrastructure Engineer FloSports, 2021
CEO Life Saving Award General Motors, 2019
CIO Safety Award General Motors, 2019
Early Promotion out of New College Hire Program General Motors, 2019
CIO Distinguished New College Hire General Motors, 2018 & 2019