Jordan Macdonald
VP Of Engineering Chief Architect at Validity Inc.
Canada
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Top SchoolJordan Macdonald is a hands-on engineering leader and chief architect with 15 years of experience building high-performing teams and reliable products across startups and enterprise. Currently VP of Engineering at Validity after senior leadership roles at Litmus, he blends deep technical ownership (Rust, Ruby, NixOS) with pragmatic process improvements—most notably piloting Shape Up to industrialize a new personalization vertical. He’s comfortable sweating the details of risky migrations and financial systems, having led complex Rails upgrades and billing overhauls that touched millions in revenue. An active contributor to open-source terminal tooling, he’s implemented user-facing navigation and theming features for a popular terminal text editor. Based in Canada, Jordan pairs surgical technical judgment with recruiting and org design that turns hires into principal engineers and long-term impact.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.Cosc (Honors), Computer Science, B.Cosc (Honors), Computer Science at Laurentian University/Université Laurentienne
French, English
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Github Skills (15)
code-editor10
editors10
command-line-interface10
rust10
text-editor10
editor10
cli10
command-line10
syntax-highlighting7
terminal-ui7
callback6
rspec6
curses6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jmacdonald/amp
Feb 2015 - Nov 2022
A complete text editor for your terminal.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 31 reviews, 1166 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily focused on implementing features for the text editor's terminal interface. They implemented commands for opening files, and added code to parse and store positions for a "jump mode" that allows users to quickly navigate to different parts of the buffer. They added a "theme mode" and also added functionality to support the creation of new files.
text-editorrustvimterminal
jmacdonald/homebrew-amp
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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