Jordan Day
CTO Lead Software Engineer at ModernHawk, LLC
Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJordan Day is a seasoned software leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building full-stack and cloud-native systems from the ground up. He has led engineering teams and product architecture across startups and enterprises, designing APIs, microservices in Go, and data stores spanning PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB and Redis while leveraging AWS services like Lambda and API Gateway. A hands-on coder who still contributes to open-source (improving UX and tab-completion in the popular The Lounge web IRC client), he blends front-end polish with back-end reliability. Jordan’s pragmatic improvements have driven measurable cost savings and migrations—from designing a shipping system that saved $70K/year to moving Django-managed databases to custom solutions. Based in Appleton, Wisconsin, he pairs a 3.9 Computer Science degree with a knack for tackling thorny integrations (Stripe, QuickBooks, PayPal) and evolving legacy systems into modern, maintainable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.9 (4.0 in Computer Science), Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.9 (4.0 in Computer Science) at University of Advancing Technology
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
irc10
webpages10
vue10
web-content10
vue-jsx10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
autocomplete9
ux-design8
user-experience8
chat7
nodejs7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thelounge/thelounge
Feb 2016 - Oct 2019
💬 Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 18 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the web IRC client. Their contributions included fixing comments in configuration files, adding clarity to configuration options, and improving the tab completion functionality within the application. Furthermore, they worked on improving the channel joining process and UI by prefixing the channel name before joining.
hostedchatjavascripttheloungeirc-client
FryDay/go-electrumx
Feb 2020 - Sep 2023
ElectrumX protocol client written in Go
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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