Jordan Marcus
Engineer I at American Express
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Marcus is a full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web and distributed systems, currently contributing as Engineer I / Senior Fullstack Engineer at American Express. He has strong JavaScript/TypeScript and Java skills and a track record delivering RESTful APIs, event-driven services, and responsive React front-ends using technologies like Node.js, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, and Tailwind. Jordan has led product-focused projects—reducing manual work through integrated payroll services at ADP and adding real-time chat and dynamic sports analytics at HiLyte—demonstrating both backend architecture and user-facing expertise. He pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and cross-team collaboration, having guided junior engineers and owned end-to-end features for large, global platforms. Based in New Jersey, he blends a formal economics background from Emory with Fullstack Academy training, which helps him approach technical problems with business-minded pragmatism.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Fullstack AcademyBachelor of Arts (BA) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics at Emory University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (1)
aggregator8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Ripe-Apples/app
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Ripe Apples - A Restaurant Review Aggregator
Contributions:91 commits, 49 PRs, 39 pushes in 17 days
reviewripeapplesaggregatorrestaurant
jormarcus/baike
Apr 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:20 PRs, 237 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 3 months
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