Jordan Cole
Senior Software Engineer at Opal
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Cole is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland with 17 years of hands-on experience building and operating enterprise-focused startups, from shipping accessibility-minded frontends to managing bare-metal servers and SRE tooling. Entirely self-taught, he blends deep Ruby and JavaScript expertise with practical SRE skills—designing Elasticsearch-backed log aggregation, CI pipelines, and monitoring that supported SOC-2 readiness. At Opal he moved from full-stack work to founding an SRE role that cut hosting costs >25% while improving reliability through blameless postmortems, query diagnostics, and extensive automation. He cares about clear communication, reproducible work, and pragmatic engineering, and has a curiosity for niche challenges like internationalization, phone-number parsing, and emoji/Unicode behavior. Colleagues rely on him for thorough documentation, reproducible tests, and a collaborative, mistake-forgiving culture.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Graphic design, Bachelor's degree, Graphic design at Luzerne County Community College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stilist/history_importer
Dec 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 54 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years 2 months
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stilist/personal_map
Apr 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 9 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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