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Jordan Rivers

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

I build scalable, production-grade software — from sleek React frontends to resilient Node.js microservices. 6+ years turning complex requirements into clean, elegant code.

Jordan Rivers — Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6+ Years Experience
40+ Projects Shipped
12k+ GitHub Stars
Jordan Rivers — workspace
🟢 Available for freelance
About Me

Engineering with purpose, shipping with pride

Austin, TX (Remote-friendly)

I'm a full-stack engineer with 6+ years building products that scale. I care deeply about developer experience, performance budgets, and accessibility. When I'm not architecting APIs, I'm contributing to open source or writing technical articles for the community.

React / Next.js TypeScript Node.js PostgreSQL AWS System Design

React / Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
PostgreSQL
AWS
Docker
Figma
GraphQL
Python
Redis
React Native
Cybersecurity
Selected Work

Projects I'm Proud Of

Production software I've designed, built, and shipped — from idea to deployed product.

2023 Cascade — CMS Framework
TypeScript React

Cascade — CMS Framework

Headless CMS with visual block editor, multi-tenancy support, and instant preview. Used by 200+ teams.

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2024 Mira — AI Writing Assistant
Python OpenAI

Mira — AI Writing Assistant

LLM-powered writing tool with custom prompts, document versioning, and team sharing. 15k monthly active users.

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Mar 2022 — Present
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Netlify
San Francisco, CA (Remote)

Leading frontend architecture for the Deploy Dashboard. Built visual deployment diffs, rollback flows, and the new analytics pipeline. Reduced p95 load time by 55% through code splitting and edge caching.

Jan 2020 — Feb 2022
Software Engineer
PlanetScale
Austin, TX

Built the query insights UI and schema change workflow tools used by 30k+ developers. Introduced end-to-end TypeScript and reduced production bug rate by 40%.

Jun 2018 — Dec 2019
Frontend Engineer
Figma
San Francisco, CA

Contributed to core editor interactions and the developer handoff features. Implemented reusable accessible components adopted across the platform.

2019
Advanced Software Architecture
MIT OpenCourseWare

Self-directed study in scalable system design, microservices patterns, and cloud-native architecture.

Projects I maintain and actively contribute to for the developer community.

JavaScript
node-cache-layer

Drop-in Redis + in-memory caching middleware for Express and Fastify with automatic invalidation.

1.8k 145
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TypeScript
a11y-form-hooks

React hooks library providing fully accessible form state management with WCAG 2.1 compliance built in.

960 88
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"The API gateway Jordan built has handled 3x traffic spikes without a hiccup. Their systems thinking is genuinely impressive."

Marcus Lee
Marcus Lee
CTO at Vortex Labs
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"Exceptional communicator and coder. Jordan delivered our platform redesign two weeks early and the code quality was unlike anything we'd seen from a contractor."

Priya Nair
Priya Nair
Product Lead at Cascade Studio

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
Issued Mar 2022
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Google Cloud Professional Engineer
Google Cloud
Issued Sep 2021
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