Jordan Orelli
Software Engineer at Whatnot
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Orelli is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years building high-performance server and infrastructure systems, currently working as an infra engineer on the discovery team at Whatnot in Chicago. He has led and shipped production multiplayer and distribution platforms—from designing Go and Rust clients for game distribution to operating large-scale backend services and Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure. Jordan combines hands-on implementation (notably a Rust desktop installer/updater and extensive Go services) with technical leadership roles that included managing teams, on-call operations, and migration of legacy systems. His background spans games, analytics, and consumer platforms, and he’s comfortable across languages and layers, from desktop apps to backend tooling and publishing pipelines. A habitual tinkerer, he also maintains public repos at git.orel.li, reflecting a preference for practical, performant solutions over cleverness for its own sake.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA Game Design, Master of Fine Arts - MFA Game Design at DePaul UniversityComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Hacker SchoolBachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityCharles University
English
Github Skills (84)
asteroids10
qt9
django9
configuration-language9
golang9
go-language9
programming-language9
parser9
sailfishos9
ubuntu-touch9
freebsd9
felgo9
go9
webassembly8
grpc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jordanorelli/hyperstone
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:136 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 months
replaydota2wipreplay-parserparser
jordanorelli/serve
Nov 2014 - Mar 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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