Jordan Place
Senior Engineering Manager at Nava
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Place is a senior engineering manager with 16 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver software to improve government services and civic outcomes. Currently at Nava after directing engineering at Measures for Justice, he blends hands-on coding with people leadership across data processing pipelines and web applications. His background spans founding-engineer work on an in-browser IDE, building database cloning frameworks, and leading product-focused web apps for urban planning and criminal justice data. Comfortable toggling between strategy and ship-it coding, he frequently writes small tools to solve his own problems. Based in Oakland, he brings a practical, outcome-oriented approach aimed at eradicating poverty and strengthening democracy through technology.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Brown University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
153reputation
17kreached
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Github Skills (50)
jax-rs8
jwt-authentication8
webservice8
java8
rest7
dropwizard7
hibernate7
jetty7
maven7
command-line-tool7
react6
webpack-hmr6
jwk6
dialogflow-es6
jackson6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jplace/barrrgh
Feb 2023 - May 2026
Contributions:6 PRs, 58 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 3 months
jplace/setup-computer
Apr 2012 - Dec 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 14 pushes in 10 years 9 months
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