Summary
Jordan Shaw is a software technical leader in San Francisco with over a decade of experience architecting and delivering high-performance data pipelines and streaming compute. He currently leads software technology at TextNow, applying multi-language engineering and platform thinking to scale distributed systems; his previous roles include Sr. Engineering Manager at TrueAccord and Software Engineering Manager at PubNub. He operates across Python and JVM ecosystems (Java, Clojure, Scala), as well as Go and C, with hands-on experience in Kafka, Samza, Yarn, Zookeeper, ZMQ, and the Hashicorp/Mesos stacks. Guided by a philosophy that programming languages are tools rather than identities, he maintains a broad view of the software landscape to solve complex infrastructure challenges. A University of Kansas computer science alumnus, he blends hands-on coding with leadership to mentor teams and deliver reliable, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience