Jordan Ellis

Software Engineer

Backend-leaning software engineer with six years of experience building and scaling API services. Comfortable owning a system end to end, from schema design through on-call.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer · Northwind Systems2022 – Present

Led the rewrite of the billing pipeline to an event-driven architecture, cutting invoice latency from minutes to seconds. Mentored two junior engineers and ran the team's on-call rotation.

Software Engineer · Contoso Labs2019 – 2022

Built a internal analytics API used by five product teams, processing ~2M events/day. Migrated the primary datastore from a single Postgres instance to a sharded cluster with zero downtime.

Projects

Routewise

Side project: a small route-planning tool for cyclists, built with TypeScript and PostGIS.

Skills

TypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSReactDocker