Forrest Jordan
Software Engineer at protocols.io
United States
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Top SchoolForrest Jordan is a seasoned software engineer and architect with 14 years of experience building high-performance, large-scale systems for companies from startup to enterprise, now contributing at Stripe. He combines executive-level product and business insight with deep hands-on expertise in platform architecture, infrastructure, and reliability—skills honed as founding engineer and chief architect at LTK, where he grew engineering from an incomplete MVP to a 60+ person organization. Forrest has production engineering experience from Shopify and advises protocols.io, reflecting a pattern of enabling scalable, mission-driven platforms across commerce and science. A voracious learner who moves comfortably from conceptual discovery to delivery, he’s equally focused on technical standards, operational excellence, and pragmatic innovation that drives measurable business value.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at The University of Alabama
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Github Skills (24)
migration10
knife10
stream10
aws9
database9
golang8
high-performance7
curl6
php6
curl-multi6
kinesis-stream5
python3
uid3
uuid3
unique-id3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fjordan/gocrawl
Feb 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 release, 10 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years
web-crawlerslimcrawlerpoliteconcurrent
rewardStyle/kinetic
Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
High-Performance AWS Kinesis Client for Go
Contributions:15 releases, 85 commits, 57 PRs in 1 year 9 months
golangkinesisperformanceaws-kinesisaws
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