Jordan Parker
Head Of Engineering at PANTASTIC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Parker is a hands-on engineering leader and founder with 11+ years building distributed systems, geospatial platforms, and developer tooling from startup to scale. He co-founded Lumatic to pioneer city-scale 3D reconstruction and multimodal routing, then helped harden core Twitter OSS—Finagle and Finatra—contributing to security, HTTP/2, and release automation. As Head of Engineering at PANTASTIC, he blends systems architecture, low-level C++ and Python development, and operational ownership, often being "the person everyone runs to when something goes wrong." His toolkit spans Linux internals, parallelism from clusters to pthreads, geospatial indexing and graph theory, and practical cryptography interests influenced by Bitcoin-era privacy tech. Notably, he has optimized graph traversal for multi-threaded routing and managed complex release/versioning workflows for widely used Twitter libraries. Based in San Francisco, he combines academic rigor from a Physics BS with a founder’s bias for shipping resilient, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, Electrical Engineering, BS, Physics, Electrical Engineering at University of Rochester
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Github Skills (24)
tls1210
back-end-development10
http10
sbt10
finagle10
tls1310
mux10
scala10
mtls10
release-management10
filter10
libtls10
finatra10
version-control10
versioning10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/finagle
Apr 2015 - Oct 2018
A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 95 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jordan's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the Finagle core, particularly concerning security and HTTP/2 protocol handling. They implemented features to surface TLS peer certificate information, enabling secure connections. The user also addressed critical aspects of HTTP/2, such as correctly handling stream IDs and gracefully shutting down connections upon receiving a GOAWAY message. Additionally, the user worked on improving the Mux and ThriftMux implementations and improving the HTTP features, ensuring that Failure flags are appropriately propagated across service boundaries.
fault-tolerantrpcredismysqlfinagle
twitter/finatra
Jun 2017 - Jan 2019
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed to the Finatra framework by implementing and modifying features related to exception handling, retry logic, and Thrift service APIs. They introduced functionality for handling HTTP nacks, removed blocking retry mechanisms, and refactored the controller to use TypeAgnostic filters. Additionally, the user prepared the codebase for releases and post-release updates. These changes improved the framework's robustness, performance, and usability.
guicetwitter-serverfinagletestingframework
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