Jordan Carter
Senior Software Engineer at Buildkite
Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJordan Carter is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building secure, high-performance web applications across startups, enterprises, and government organizations from Porirua, New Zealand. Currently at Buildkite, he combines deep full-stack Rails expertise with PostgreSQL and Redis, cloud-savvy Terraform/AWS deployments, and distributed-systems work in Go to deliver scalable, self-hosted agents. Jordan is pragmatic and hands-on throughout the full lifecycle—design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance—while focusing on performance optimisation and robust system architecture. He also brings leadership as an empathetic coach who fosters psychological safety and high team performance, helping engineers finish the day feeling valued. A founder-turned-senior engineer with a history of roles spanning co-founding, lead developer, and long tenures at Abletech and Enspiral, he blends entrepreneurial curiosity with disciplined engineering practices. He’s motivated by delighting customers and continuously improving systems and team outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Sciences, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Sciences, Computer Science, Software Engineering at Massey University
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Github Skills (62)
continuous-deployment10
autoscaling10
docker10
buildkite10
continuous-integration10
build-agent10
aws-vpc10
continuous-delivery10
cicd10
rails-app10
go10
aws10
mysql-command9
rails9
shipit9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jordandcarter/arduino
May 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
socialcapital/open-flash-chart
Apr 2009 - May 2009
Contributions:6 commits in 1 month
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