Jordon Phillips
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berlin, Germany
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Jordon Phillips is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 10 years’ experience, currently on AWS’s Smithy team automating client and server generation tooling. He is obsessed with quality and automation, and his open-source work touches core AWS SDKs and tooling—botocore/boto3, aws-cli, aws-sdk-go(-v2) and aws-sdk-js-v3—where he’s improved code generation, error handling, strict parsing, and test coverage. Comfortable across Go, Python and JavaScript, he bridges protocol-agnostic IDL design with pragmatic runtime fixes (unicode, base64, waiter names) that noticeably improve developer experience. His blend of backend engineering, devops-minded automation, and attention to subtle edge cases makes him a go-to engineer for reliable SDKs and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering / Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering / Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (59)
ec10
api-doc10
json-rpc10
unit-testing10
apim10
amazons310
amazon-cloudfront10
javascript10
typescript310
node-js10
boto10
documentations10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
smithy-lang/smithy
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Smithy is a protocol-agnostic interface definition language and set of tools for generating clients, servers, and documentation for any programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:529 reviews, 1042 commits, 391 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jordon primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Smithy project. They made changes to the IDL (Interface Definition Language) specification, specifically in relation to documentation and error messages. Additionally, the user added features related to API Gateway and the AWS platform, demonstrating experience with back-end development and API integrations, and also updating internal components.
smithyagnosticsmithy-modelsprogramming-languageclients
aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
AWS SDK for the Go programming language.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 96 commits, 47 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jordon contributed to the AWS SDK for Go programming language by implementing JSON RPC deserialization support and by generating the corresponding protocol tests. They added support for deserializing error messages and codes, ensuring proper error handling. Furthermore, the user added the version range for AWS traits dependency to ensure compatibility. They also addressed issues related to timestamp pointers.
golangaws-sdksdkgoaws
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