Jordan Jones
Associate Platform Engineer
Springfield, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Jones is an Associate Platform Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating resilient infrastructure, currently focused on platform work at World Wide Technology. He brings a strong SRE and systems background from running his own on-premise, hyperconverged six-node Kubernetes cloud—used to host third-party and custom apps—which underscores his practical expertise in infrastructure as code, automation, and reliability. Previously he cut telecom operational costs by 35%, halved call signaling latency, and architected scalable cloud solutions as a self-employed SRE, demonstrating a blend of cost-conscious engineering and performance optimization. An active open-source contributor, he added Microsoft/Xbox authentication support to a well-known Minecraft protocol library, showing an ability to integrate complex auth flows into networked systems. Based in Springfield, Oregon, Jordan pairs stubborn problem-solving with a networking/systems mindset to deliver durable, production-ready platforms.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Redwood High School, Visalia, CA
Github Skills (9)
network10
user-authentication10
authentication10
nodejs10
protocols10
network-programming10
testing8
clientside7
webclient7
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
PrismarineJS/node-minecraft-protocol
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
Parse and serialize minecraft packets, plus authentication and encryption.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 6 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jordan focused on integrating Microsoft account authentication into the Minecraft protocol. This involved adding support for authentication using the Xbox Live and Microsoft services and integrating a new Prismarine-Auth library. They also refactored and cleaned up the TCP_DNS functionality and automated port discovery for testing purposes. Further contributions include updating the default authentication method and providing an interface for custom authentication methods.
minecraftpacketsproxyprotocolauthentication
kashalls/kromgo
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Easily expose preconfigured prometheus metrics to the outside using badges.
Contributions:15 releases, 4 reviews, 90 PRs in 1 year 3 months
gokubernetesprometheuspromql
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