Summary
Jordan Byrd is a hands-on Director of Software Engineering with over a decade building full-stack systems and leading platform teams in New York. He specializes in designing and operating distributed control planes and devops tooling—having built a Platform Control Plane at Unqork and a multi-process process-management daemon at NS1 to enable self-hosting and resilient containerized deployments. Comfortable across C#, Java, Python, Go, Ruby and modern JavaScript, he pairs deep systems fluency (Terraform, Consul/Vault, k8s, Docker) with practical observability and incident-command experience. Jordan scales teams by leading from the front: starting as the primary contributor on greenfield problems, then mentoring engineers into ownership and operational excellence. He’s equally pragmatic about tooling choices and has a track record of inventing custom performance and load-testing utilities to solve thorny reliability problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Liberty University
Interactive Media Studies and Journalism, Interactive Media Studies and Journalism at Miami University