Jordan Grace
Senior Backend Engineer at Knova
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Grace is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building high-performance, production Rust services for domains ranging from digital assets to vision-health instrumentation. Based in New York, they specialize in backend systems using Axum, tonic/gRPC, Kafka, and Postgres, and have a track record of creating custom testing tooling and developer utilities to speed iteration. Jordan pairs formal mathematics training with deep self-taught computer science knowledge, which surfaces in work on DSP-like, mathy problems and highly optimized experiment control code. They've led solo projects across full stacks and hardware-adjacent software—shipping GraphQL servers, Windows kiosk apps, and data-processing CLIs—while contributing to large-scale migrations of PHP microservices to Rust. Known for clear communication and teaching ability, Jordan also brings practical ops and security experience from earlier infrastructure and military roles. They gravitate toward interesting technical challenges: educational software, dev tools, hardware controllers, or anything that benefits from a mathematically rigorous, systems-minded approach.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Workforce Education and Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Workforce Education and Development at Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleBachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics Physics minor, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics Physics minor at UC Santa BarbaraPhysics, Physics at Crafton Hills College
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Github Skills (17)
rust8
cryptography8
validation7
python6
asset-management5
webassembly5
ajv5
schema-validation5
json5
json-schema4
key-management3
project-management2
filesystem2
rest-api2
rest2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
picklenerd/hoo
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
A collection of tools to control Philips Hue lights on my local network.
Contributions:6 PRs, 164 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 1 month
boltlabs-inc/key-mgmt
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
A secure digital asset management system
Contributions:8 releases, 509 reviews, 162 commits in 6 months
management-systemcryptographysecuredigital-assetdigital-asset-management
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