Jordan Lewis
VP Of Engineering at Cockroach Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Lewis is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on software experience and five years in senior leadership at Cockroach Labs, where he progressed from Member of Technical Staff to VP of Engineering overseeing CockroachDB Cloud. Based in New York, he blends deep database and distributed systems expertise with team-building and documentation-minded management, often inviting informal knowledge-sharing like coffee conversations about databases. His background includes application-scale engineering at Knewton and early systems roles at the University of Chicago, reflecting a strong foundation in both production systems and infrastructure. Known for pairing technical rigor with clear communication, he champions developer experience and cross-functional collaboration while scaling high-availability cloud services.
5 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts, Associate of Arts at Bard CollegeSt. Ann'sBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Chicago
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
postgresql10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
distributed-systems10
arangodb10
go10
sql10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
documentation10
database10
netlify5
react-typescript4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikeCRL/cockroach
Dec 2020 - Jan 2025
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
mikeCRL/docs
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
CockroachDB user documentation (dev)
Contributions:10 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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