Jordan Milne
Co-Founder And COO at Zatista.com
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Milne is an entrepreneur and operator with 13+ years of experience scaling digital businesses, co-founding and serving as COO of Zatista, a leading curated online gallery featured in major design outlets. He pairs big-picture strategy and product-led operations with hands-on technical chops, having contributed backend improvements and stability fixes to notable open-source projects like OpenMW and historical reddit code. An award-winning author of an internationally published management book and former contributing editor who has interviewed top sovereign wealth and pension fund leaders, he blends storytelling, investor-facing credibility, and startup execution. Comfortable across Canada, the US and Europe, he brings a Cambridge entrepreneurship diploma and a track record of turning cultural and technical communities into sustainable marketplaces.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Executive Certificate, Advanced Negotiations, Executive Certificate, Advanced Negotiations at University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of BusinessGrenoble Ecole de ManagementBA, Sociology, BA, Sociology at University of GuelphCertificate, General Management, Certificate, General Management at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessAdvanced Diploma, Entrepreneurship, Advanced Diploma, Entrepreneurship at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (21)
c-language10
game-engine10
web-application10
python10
apidoc10
sdl10
openmv10
security10
rpg10
openms10
api10
webapp10
web-development10
cprogramming-language10
openmrs10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Apr 2014 - Oct 2015
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 commits, 7 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed to the security and functionality of the reddit codebase, primarily focusing on server-side logic. Their work included implementing security enhancements such as adding a security test suite for CSS filters, and fixing potential vulnerabilities related to CSRF. They also addressed several bugs related to user interactions, page caching, and implemented feature enhancements. These changes touched upon various aspects of the application including error handling, user authentication, and general API functionality.
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OpenMW/openmw
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
OpenMW is an open-source open-world RPG game engine that supports playing Morrowind. Main repo and issue tracker can be found here: https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Jordan focused on improving the compilation process and integrating new features within the OpenMW game engine. They addressed compilation issues under VS2010 by including necessary headers and fixed a texture-related issue by creating static textures with correct parameters. Furthermore, the user removed OIS, replacing it with SDL goodness, which involved significant changes to the input management system, and they refactored and updated input-related parts of the code. The user's work directly contributed to improving the engine's stability and features.
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