Jordan Byrd's Resume | Software Engineering Lead

Experience

Design, implement and operate a distributed taskrunner & control-plane system for automating cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure, more to come)
Model infrastructure / systems tasks with custom YAML DSL to allow customers and operators to self-service repetitive tasks
Ongoing operationalization of the subsystem to improve reliability and observability
Implement observability, alerting, and metrics-gathering for Control Plane subsystem
Assist investigating and debugging infrastructure and software issues

Built and maintained a multiprocess container lifecycle management daemon with node.js and bash
Wrote API servers in node.js, golang, and python
Designed and implemented lightweight healthcheck subsystem to ensure container readiness
Wrote stress-test framework and scenarios to validate performance
Implemented performance-debugging IDE that stored metrics in ELK to enable hotspot discovery
Application server & database performance debugging and optimization
Removed unnecessary dependencies and files from containers to improve build time and runtime performance
Debug platform issues
Led the frontend engineering team
Designed and implemented v2 of the GUI

Helped architect web application with a node.js/postgres/rabbitmq/c#/angular stack
Built and maintained automated build and testing tools like Gulp and Mocha
Debugged performance issues and engineered novel solutions to difficult problems
Wrote cross-browser compliant CSS with LESS CSS preprocessor
Collaborated with the product team to devise solutions to User Experience issues
Built node.js API endpoints for new backend

Developed a cross platform mobile/web application with Ionic
Reworked the build tooling automation to optimize load and build times
Overhauled the unit-testing environment to avoid testing multiple components at the same time
Supported an international development team comprised of developers in India, Manhattan and Germany