Jordan Blackbourn
Self Employed
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Blackbourn is a Lead Software Engineer based in Christchurch, New Zealand with nine years of hands-on experience building web and backend systems. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Cascade—moving from Software Engineer to Senior and now Lead—while also maintaining independent contracting work since 2020. Jordan's background includes work with Angular and Spring Boot from an early MPI internship, and commercial experience at Verizon Connect and IBM, giving him a pragmatic mix of frontend, backend and automation testing skills. He holds a BE(Hons) in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Canterbury and brings a strong focus on delivering reliable, production-ready software. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical leader who balances day-to-day delivery with mentoring and incremental architectural improvements. He often combines product-minded engineering with an ability to autonomously scope and ship features as a self-employed developer.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BEHons, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BEHons, Computer Software Engineering at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (13)
firmware10
arm10
avr10
usb10
qmk10
atmel10
rp204010
keyboard10
realtime2
aws2
graphql2
aws-lambda2
aws-appsync1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Jrodna/co-op-shop
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
Shared shopping list webapp
Contributions:1 review, 130 PRs, 141 pushes in 1 year
reactjavascriptshopping-listwebappshopping
Jrodna/qmk_firmware
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:24 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
firmwareavratmelusbatmel-avr
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